Walk in Beauty

For the moment I am observing someone doing something that I happen to know is very difficult to do at that quality level. Most people would not notice how incredibly well it is done, though. Because this person has added the last touch:

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One of the most miraculously beautiful incidents I have ever had the good luck of witnessing was my old, seriously ill mother lying in a hospital bed, a young nurse bending over her to arrange the pillow better, my mother lifting her hand and stroking the smooth cheek above her head and the young woman immediately returning the caress.

What is Soria Moria, the place where I - in my profile - claim to live? According to one of those Norwegian fairytales collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe it is a fairy castle. But how does it look?

• Theodor Kittelsen thought that it looks like this: Soria Moria slott.
  
• And Bjørn Rørslett thinks that it looks like this: Soria Moria.

And "east of the sun and west of the moon" is the place where another fairy castle in a Norwegian fairytale is situated.

What has that got to do with me? I'm not Norwegian.

No, but Norwegian and Danish culture are closely related and Norway has always had a place in my heart. And when I wanted to choose a place that was not geographical but spiritual, those two were the best that I could think of.