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the making of music
Different Pen · 1 pvMy mother, probably sometime in the 1940s, sat down at a pump organ, the kind that was rather common in Finnish homes, chapels and schools at the time. Her grandfather kindly taught her a few basic major and minor...stop being an arrogant bitch
Different Pen · 1 pvMy whole life, just about, I have wanted to create. More specifically, to write.My whole life, just about, this craving has frustrated me in some way or another. As I get older, I...have to be everything
Different Pen · 6 pv“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers....by the turf fire
Different Pen · 8 pvFor the best breakfast in Dublin:Make sure it's lashing down rain of the coldest, most awful kind outside. Find an ancient, venerable café that has a marble-topped table right next to the fireplace with a fragrant,...
the country of deadly
Different Pen · 8 pvI went to Ireland, again. I found a country slightly more worn-down and a people even friendlier than I remembered. The coffee had improved slightly, in some places.Everything else seemed...an unlikely pilgrimage
Different Pen · 25 pvIn a faraway land, where I once lived, a cave sits on the steep hillside above a dark lake.More than a thousand years ago, a saint lived in this cave. The hillside is impossibly steep and...she once asked me
Different Pen · 22.03.2018“She once asked me the name of my favourite poet and I repliedGodShe laughed and played along and asked me which one of his works was my absolute favouriteI said it was the one where he wrote her into existence”(unknown)oatmeal and insecurity
Different Pen · 21.03.2018Now: Snow, oatmeal porridge with honey and blueberries, a feeling of insecurity.Later: A quiet office, pilates class, a question of why.sorbet in the streets
Different Pen · 20.03.2018The cold is easing up under a relentless sun and the snow under my feet is turning into a sorbet-like mush.March, a long time ago, used to be the month for building the last snow forts, the...cold ghost wandering
Different Pen · 12.03.2018“Lonely skies, orphan eyes, I’m a cold ghost wandering, waiting for a warm hand to take my own, for a warm heart to lead me home.”(Josh Riebock)the road to the Loire is a difficult one
Different Pen · 27.02.2018It's in a luscious garden in France, just as the July heat is cooling into a delicious evening, that I decide that I hate my best friend.Behind us...to see a world in a cup of espresso
Different Pen · 26.02.2018A memory: The waiter in the little seaside café brings me an espresso because my rusty French doesn't seem up to ordering the café au lait I really...to call myself beloved
Different Pen · 22.02.2018And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.(Raymond Carver: "Late Fragment")not brave
Different Pen · 21.02.2018I am not brave.Throw me in the sea and I will panic and drown. Put me in a roller-coaster and I will suffer an immediate heart attack. Force me to endure a flight in heavy turbulence and you will hear me whimper with...road trip with Camembert
Different Pen · 20.02.2018For an ideal summer week in France: * Bring your best friend and rent a car. Try not to faint with fear while driving out of Paris in the mad rush hours.* Drink real espresso, complemented...the day of the Saudi-Arabian camel whip
Different Pen · 19.02.2018Penkkarit is being celebrated these days. Final year students of upper secondary schools hail their last day of school by coming to school in fancy...Harry Potter and the Regressing Adult
Different Pen · 18.02.2018It's been a Harry Potter winter for me and my friends, as we dedicated seven dark evenings to rewatching the films over wine and snacks (and once,...your very flesh shall be a great poem
Different Pen · 10.02.2018“This is what you shall do;Love the earth and sun and the animals,despise riches,give alms to every one that asks,stand up for the stupid and...winter, electric and crimson
Different Pen · 06.02.2018It is a heavy feeling, donning a large, green coat. Walking out in sturdy, insulated boots. Being late as usual because it took so long to find your wool mittens and a chunky knit hat....moonlight and love songs - never out of date
Different Pen · 30.01.2018The icy darkness of the Nordic winter can't stop me.My nervousness almost does, sometimes. Still, I wrap myself in layers of white and green wool...silence the pianos, let the mourners come
Different Pen · 16.01.2018In the dark corridor of the English Department at the university, just outside the literature library where forgotten books were gathering dust, a...stay scared as hell
Different Pen · 15.01.2018“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing...the buzzing at week's end
Different Pen · 14.01.2018Saturday, the day of possibilities. Of sleeping late, of setting out on adventures, of partying in glitzy clothes and smoky eyes.I used to love Saturdays as a child. I got up early in the...purple dusk
Different Pen · 13.01.2018Red stars are twinkling in my kitchen and a hot oven heats a chilly flat with the aroma of melted cheese.I eat a plate of roasted vegetables while typing furiously on my computer and dreaming of adventure. A purple dusk...my heart is an old house
Different Pen · 10.01.2018“But my heart is an old house(the kind my mothergrew up in)hell to heat and cooland faulty in the wiringand though it’s nice to look atI have no businessinviting lovers in.”(Clementine von...heart winter
Different Pen · 09.01.2018It's what the Finns so beautifully named sydäntalvi - heart winter, midwinter.The sounds: snow ploughs, crows and sparrows and jackdaws, indoor parties - and the snow itself.And on starry, ice-cold nights, the deep...
2017: the year of breaking, mending and knitting
Different Pen · 08.01.2018* Started the year with an impromptu midnight party with wine and meringue-and-persimmon cake.* Fell into despair of the worst kind, then fell in...do the salsa and let it snow
Different Pen · 07.01.2018I'm swinging my hips together with salsa dancers on a cold, grey evening.The weather outside is frightful. But since we've no place to go, let's have some tapas with delicious red wine, do...
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