Magnifient views

 See my new book, free download at https://miraclelikenature.blogspot.com/2024/04/magnifient-views.html

My most liked texts

 See https://aboutmytexts.blogspot.com/2023/12/maybe-my-most-liked-texts.html

6th of April 2024    You might be interested in reading the back cover texts of my books of the Christmas gnome/elf skills series, by clicking the headers at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLLS8BWC?binding=kindle_edition&ref_=ast_author_bsi

Vuosien vaikeuksista

 

On Wednesday, 25 October 2023, Kaisa Hannele Tervola <hannele.tervola@gmail.com> wrote:

Muistelin eilen lapsuudenperheeni Japanin-matkaa, kun olin 12-vuotias eli 1983 syyskuussa tai ainakin osin syyskuussa. Japanissa oli kovin rakennettua, isoja taloja kaupunkikeskustamaisesti eikä juuri puita tai istutuksia, kadut tyhjiä, ihmiset töissä. Mietin, olinko kioeänä, kun ei ollut puita tms luontoa. Muistan, että menimme lähijunalla tms Naraan, missä oli puita, temppeli ja kauriita. Mutten muista paljoa muuta. Siksi tuli nyt vasta ekaa kertaa mieleeni, luulivatko minua kovin tyhmäksi, kun en ymmärtänyt niin rakennettua paikkaa, kun olin kuin tyhjäpäinen ja pahoinvoiva, ja kun pikkuveljeni kenties oli innoissaan niin keinotekoisesta ja pahalle sopivan työntäyteisestä elämästä, niin huonoista elinoloista. Suomalainen ainakin ymmärtää, ettei ihmisen täyttä ymmärrystä pidä luokitella sen mukaan, millainen hän on kipeänä ja tietämättömänä. Minä tapasin olla lapsuudenperheeni ylivoimaisesti fiksuin objektiivisessa ajattelussa ja kovin paljon vastuuntuntoisempi kukn äitipuoleni ja velheni. Japanin-matkan jälkeen olivat luokitukset menneet jotenkin pueleen, äitipuolellani Titalla ja pikkuvelhellänk Tompolla aivan liian iso asema. Ei asemua saa siirtää henkilöltä touselle kuin rahoja tai esineitä, vaan kukin on arvioitava nunakin hetkenä uudelleen, sekä itsenään että sosiaalisten suhteidensa, yhteiskunnallusen vaikutuksensa ym puolesta, siis mm taitotasot, arvot, kiinnostuksenkohteet, sosiaalisuuden tyyppi, laatu, määrä, arvot, ym kuhunkin muuhun liittyen yms. Harvoin on ihminen ihan klushee. Jos japanilainen ei ymmärrä suomalaista, ei hänen pitäisi tätä suomalaista määräillä, vaan luottaa yleissivistykseen ja tervehenkuseen moraaliin. 

Terv. Hannele 

About celebrations

"    Savonlinna was good at celebrating while the capital district isn't so good at celebrating. As far as i understand, in a celebration day there ought to be the thing celebrated, some guests, some ages old life, some time outdoors with some motion too, foods that are kind of traditional somewhat countryside like but somehow stylish like magnifient looking and tasty, and some fine pieces of culture like some song (on a CD?), poem and/or piece of tradition or history, lots of free chances to talk for a while or do something in varied groups, and an end in sight guests leaving they having the teavel or something else for ghe evening. 

But this is just my impression. Home tidy, clean and nice is important too. There ought to be some nature around. 

And like painting or drawing demands a moment of it's own, maybe 15 minutes with time also for the subject, for such life, and with the goal of making a fine piece of art, likewise things in the party demand some space for them at least on the part of the one who offers them, so that the atmosphere is better.

In celebrations it is a rule that one ought to behave well and be good willing, dress in clean celebration clothes too. If one does not feel like behaving so one ought to leave. Also otherwise it is ok to make just a short visit or to not to come if one wishes so. If some have come from far and cannot leave, they can go and find some quiet enough corner and read a book. 

But I haven't been in such celebrations for a long time, years and years. 

"   

From my blog learntalents.blogspot.com 

A new law makes me wonder

 My step mother like extremely career oriented working mom used to say that she would be better suited for being a man than a woman. Yesterday news https://yle.fi/a/3-12688511 (in Finnish) said that the Finnish parliament had voted and passed a law that allows adult to choose whwther one is oneself officially a woman or a man just by makibg an application. I have always wanted to be a woman so it does not affect me, but i just wonder what will my step mother do. 

A singer (Eino Leino's poems)

 A singer

 "  N88.   20th of July 2022   Eino Leino wrote ( my translation) :

"...  See, a human feels sorrow and joy

and a human feels and lives.

But a singer wanders and listens

and in her/his ears kantelees play.

Those play, play days

and nights, those echo from far away, so far away.

And a singer wanders and listens

and a singer hears and - sings. "

Life has it's own rythms, like lifting one's glace when one is aware of one's environment, or running a short distance, or how the feel of rainy weather affects how one comes in. Those rythms are kind of like songs, and having started something natural and pleasant in one's everyday lufe one knows how to continue it, kind of saying yes i was singing this song and the other natural refreshibg songs of my daily life. But it is more like lufe singing than any memorized melody. 

The poem is the ending from the poem Yölaulu = Nightsong in Eino Leino's poetry book Laulun lahja = The talent/gift of songs/singing.

 N89.   Of how one sings in the poem of Eino Leino

"I wander the paths of the forest
on a summer evening thinking deeply by myself
and my chest enlargens of joy
and I sing, just sing."

One could think of feeling like singing since it is such a fine weather with some nature ( trees? ) around.

"

From my over a thousand entries long blog text about the skills of Christmas gnomes   learntalents.blogspot.com

My books

 Last October 2021 I collected my old texts to books, and now in June 2022 added some of my newer texts ( written after that) to one more book "Skills Of Christmas Gnomes, continued"  see https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B45C7J9M . You can find the other books by clicking my name. Thwre are also some older books and booklets of mine.