The well-spring
Welcome to this little garden room, shaped like a small pavilion, where the source of the stream is embedded in both greenery and music and overlooking sloping meadows. Water plays the central role here. The source of the stream is joined by ‘hanging gardens’ in the form of clematis stands and white flowering vegetation. There is also a sound-based art installation. The music is the ‘Melody of Hope’ composed by Georg Riedel, who also wrote the music for most of Astrid Lindgren’s songs.
The well-spring – the room of hope
Of all the emotional states captured in Astrid Lindgren’s stories, hopefulness is perhaps the most important. There is no story that conveys this as clearly as ‘My Nightingale Is Singing.’ Malin’s belief that things can change, if you want it badly enough, is the ray of light in the gloomy life in the poorhouses.
“Perhaps God, in his goodness, wanted to let a linden sprout from a pea just this once.
‘With faith and longing, it can be happen,’ Malin thought. And she went out into the potato field and dug a hole in the ground with her bare hands, where she planted the pea that would become a linden.”
From ‘My Nightingale is Singing’ by Astrid Lindgren
