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the scrawny teenager that always cried
Living in a community, with idealists. It was autumn in Sweden. I was nineteen and on the way to discovering what was perhaps my life calling -...Different Pen
in a faraway land of roses and oranges
It's a city of olives and oranges, of a thousand swifts darting around in the sky. The Arabic coffee is soot black and spicy, the sangría joyfully...Different Pen
alphabet of recent times
Dust, doctors, death.Stress, songs, shivers.Cauliflower, consideration, cocktails. Birds, boredom, books.Worry, whiteness, wars.History, halloumi, hope.Different Pen
winter icecream
Misty grey fields and forests. Icy winds with snow crumbs swirling around. Deer grazing in open fields, looking for sustenance under half-melted, re-frozen snowdrifts. It's March but spring feels very far away and in...Different Pen
too much heaven on my mind
It's been a long, long dayAre we in heaven, heaven, heaven?I want a playlist with only songs that mention heaven. Because my body hurts and my mind fears and hope is scarce ... but heaven...Different Pen
the house of the thirteen clocks
The apartment building is surrounded by other identical apartment buildings, fairly new and proper. The area is quietly pleasant and has absolutely...Different Pen
before, but decades ago
Arctic winter, so cold that cars and buses stop running even in hardy Finland. An old lady is sent home from hospital and I try to arrange for diapers, grab handles, nursing homes and...Different Pen
2023: the year of Venice and a chartreuse-col...
2023 was the year when I abandoned contact lenses, bleeding, zumba, ignorance of current events. I started out weak from surgery but recovered. My...Different Pen
slow moves in messy hair
Sleepy homesickness, slow moves in messy hair and woollen socks. The office on those silent last days of the year when Christmas is still in the air. Almost alone.Fir trees in snow outside...Different Pen
the accidental bombmaker
Things I brought to the recycling centre, probably causing speculation among the staff regarding my life choices: 1 rusty car exhaust pipe10 injection needles (most of them used)2 tiny...Different Pen
melt into it
While others struggle with this winter darkness, I melt into it, gratefully. Books, sleep, heated blankets.Different Pen
a shout into forever
“You mustn’t live so lightly, spin your stories, tell your tales. Let them dance across the oceans and set the wind upon your sails. For every truth found on your travels and in the pits of your despair, is a shout into...Different Pen
hot, exhausting, fabulous Italy
A hot autumn week in Italy. Train rides where I wrote in my old-fashioned journal, stared out the window at fields and hills, and sometimes got into...Different Pen
the day we nearly missed Botticelli
After Venice and love at first sight, Florence gave me an overwhelmed feeling - too hot, too many people, too noisy traffic, the Duomo too immense,...Different Pen
all the dark alleys where we got lost
The cynic in me saw damp and mold, rotting buildings and dirty canals, millions of tourists, gondoliers with fake smiles, plastic trinkets sold in...Different Pen
autumn's to-do list
Go to Italy, buy a fridge magnet, read Of Mice and Men, sing in a choir, make myself strong, pray, live now.Different Pen
to know the earth as poetry
Some of us don't wantto be tough alpha leaders.Some of us just want to writeand wanderthe gardenand breathe in the skyand nourish and nurtureand quietly createnew pathwaysand live ourlives...Different Pen
three strengths and a weakness
I can walk alone through dark woods. I don't kill spiders if I can avoid it. I can do hard and holy things even if it breaks me. My heart is growing softer, bleeding too easily, and I don't...Different Pen
glittering moments in July
A guinea pig, swimming in a dark lake, linden flowers, sushi with mango, an Eighties' version of Trivial Pursuit, and baffling a physiotherapist with my handgrip strength.Different Pen
the Midsummer that had everything
Midsummer - the fragrance of a thousand flowers, blackbirds and chaffinches and everybody else singing for me. The world's greatest show, pulling out...Different Pen
then, a party or two
Expensive champagne, food, a pink hat, lilies that smelled of cinnamon. A roaring toy dinosaur, roses, a big surprise party. Kitsch vases from the secondhand shops, pictures from my childhood, stories from my wild...Different Pen
stand here upon your ground
On my birthday, I sat sulking in a café in Helsinki. I was alone. On my birthday. The hotel breakfast had been worse than average, the coffee undrinkable. The sunny weather had turned into...Different Pen
weeping with the fig
I gave all my potted plants new soil. Then I got it into my head that I wanted to know more about them. But instead of looking up the best way to treat them, I looked up their names and their native regions. Madagascar...Different Pen
a day to remember, and to forget a little
Crazy birds sang so loudly in a tree on a streetcorner that I forgot everything else. A ragtime tune suddenly took me back to a long-forgotten TV...Different Pen
the greenfinch and the unexpected memories
Today I remembered how my father taught me to say totta kai when I was very young. And how on an early spring day once I spent hours on the porch,...Different Pen
jubilee for a warrior queen
This year is supposed to be good. Wine, road trips and roses, strawberries with cream and sun, friends and dogs and feeling loved.I sink into my sofa to read books, to tired to take on the...Different Pen
add up to something
"What You Missed That Day You Were Absent From Fourth Grade" by Brad Aaron ModlinMrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listento the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas,how peeling potatoes can be a form of...Different Pen
