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Celebration of Sorts
Yesterday was Chinese new year, and the "Terracotta Army" by the Monument to the memory of President J.K. Paasikivi (a.k.a. East and West by Harri Kivijärvi) must grace numeous blogs and social media...
19.02.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Belated Holiday News
I've been at work almost two weeks already. I didn't have as good a holiday weather as those who started two weeks later - it actually is too hot and humid for my taste now - but I had plenty to do: s...
01.08.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Christmas Holiday Doings
Thanks to the calendar I had a really long Christmas holiday with plenty of time to rest and do various more or less useful things: I read some books, mostly well worth reading: Jonathan Littell, H...
07.01.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Singing Trees
A new public sculpture has appeared in Helsinki, 13 metres high, by the Music Centre. The sculptor Reijo Hukkanen (b. 1946) was inspired by the classic poem The Pike's Song by Aaro Hellaakoski (1893...
16.08.2012 | Kommentteja 0 |
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The Lord of The Rings
I first encountered The Lord of the Rings when the excellent Finnish translation of the Fellowship of the Ring appeared. I was only moderately enthusiastic at the time, but I liked it well enough to r...
03.08.2009 | Kommentteja 0 |
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National Poets
What are the requirements for becoming a national poet? According to a radio programme sent in May a national poet is one "who is concerned with the vicissitudes of his" - national poets tend to be me...
06.07.2008 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Seven Brothers and Seven Roles: A Michael perspective
To celebrate the Day of Finnish Literature and Aleksis Kivi, here's an old text trying to fit Michael teachings to one of the basic works of Finnish literature. *** The novel Seven Brothers by Aleks...
10.10.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Summer Reading
I spent most of my summer holiday reading in the garden by the squirrels' two-tiered highway with a young hare hiding behind a peony. Find the hare! I usually get myself somethin...
13.07.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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False Starts at Driving School
Having seen the advertisement for Driving School Lilliputti last August I signed for Ladies' Course, in order to avoid 17-year old boys with an attitude. The first lesson in November, at Malmi swimmin...
18.05.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Michael and Me
I discovered the Mid-Causal Plane entity Michael in the early 1990s. A book, probably Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Messages from Michael, attracted my attention when I was looking for information about rein...
18.02.2007 | Kommentteja 0 |
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The Girl who Grew Up in a Barrel: A Story by Joel Lehtonen
At my grandmother's there was a book of folk tales retold by Joel Lehtonen, called Tarulinna (1906). Here's my childhood favourite in my translation: * The Girl Who Grew Up in a Barrel Once upon a...
30.10.2006 | Kommentteja 0 |
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