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the Atlantic and a new song
Different Pen · 12 pvYou may not think you'll miss the sea when you have fascinating mountains, historical river valleys, fields full of sunflowers and old castles to look at all day long.But if you're born and...
da Vinci, Joan of Arc and the wonderful K
Different Pen · 13 pvThe Loire valley. Too many castles and palaces to count. A royal air. The murky, slow and sensous Loire river. A muggy heat that peaks at 43 degrees...
the Jura surprise
Different Pen · 13 pvSometime last winter, I was browsing through Google maps and happened upon the Jura Mountains, for no obvious reason except that I love mountains and Central Europe. I dove into Street View and followed a few mountain...
dragons and kings and dormant volcanoes
Different Pen · 17 pvThree thousand three hundred kilometers, seven castles, four mountain ranges, three countries, two freedom-loving ladies, one car.Happiness is...
hotspot holiday
Different Pen · 14.07.2022The dream trip to France is drawing close and I'm a nervous wreck.In the news from France right now: airport chaos, horrible heatwave and the pandemic running rampant again. And I hate packing and am afraid of flying...
planning a medieval route
Different Pen · 04.07.2022Planning a medieval route through Poitou, Périgord, Languedoc ... Have lovelier words ever been written? France is my dream country. It has all the history, all the castles, all the wine....
the Chosen
Different Pen · 15.06.2022Best TV series this year (or maybe for many years): The Chosen. Not only is it fascinating. I can almost feel it doing something good inside me.
wildlife, various approaches
Different Pen · 14.06.2022One week of vacation between the sea and the forest. Mostly alone with my books and the laptop and the wildlife. I'm tip-toeing around nesting sandpipers, chasing away swans, swearing at...
no stepping on the ants
Different Pen · 27.05.2022I was out walking with my mother, one of the first really warm days of spring. Our walk progressed at glacial speed, because my mother is old and frail. Walking extremely slowly gives you a...
93 percent stardust
Different Pen · 06.05.2022We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins,carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains.93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames,we are all just stars that have people names.(Nikita Gill)
lay me down on a bed of sheepskins
Different Pen · 05.05.2022My new (second-hand) sofa is covered in sheepskins and very alluring. It has been the scene of this year's spring and has hosted tears, covid, work,...
four days of melting ice
Different Pen · 22.04.2022In the middle of juggling jobs, sorting out my car, sorting out a broken laptop, taking care of a needy mother, keeping myself fit, not neglecting friends, soothing my creative thirst,...
spiritual experiences of the traditional kind
Different Pen · 15.04.2022I sometimes feel God by my side as I look at a starry sky, walk through a summer forest or hear a particular song just when I'm in need of comfort....
behind a long border
Different Pen · 10.03.2022The iodine tablets are sold out all over town. I feel a little embarrassed to be asking about them at the pharmacy but I don't object when one of them puts me on a waiting list - as number 35. I remember being very...
walking on broken glass
Different Pen · 28.02.2022I walked on a path of crystal shards through the forest, with a warm sun in my face, and sang "feels just like I'm walking on broken glass". These are the days of that particular February...
oh, happy day on a winter night
Different Pen · 16.02.2022Hot, spicy coffee from a flask. I set down the lantern I'm carrying and someone puts a sticky-sweet piece of carrot cake in my mittened hands. We're...
hazy at the edges
Different Pen · 04.02.2022Butterscotch, caramel and vanilla is the colour of my hair these days. The world is too dry and hazy at the edges. How did it become so small? Are there still foreign and wonderful things out there, beyond my horizon of...
frosty urban amusements
Different Pen · 18.01.2022Art exhibitions usually do not touch me. Unless they immerse me completely in the atmosphere of an unknown world. Like an urban art exhibition in an abandoned, dilapidated amusement park,...
comfort songs, part two
Different Pen · 09.01.2022Little bit of loveWhen you're down and out, your heart is breakingLittle bit of loveAnd with every single smile you're faking itLittle bit of love(JP Cooper: Little Bit Of Love)
comfort songs
Different Pen · 08.01.2022Then you came my way on a winter's dayShouted loudly come out and playCan't you tell I've got news for youSun is shining and so are youAnd we're gonna be alright, dry your tears and hold tight(Axwell & Ingrosso: Sun...
2021: the year of seven red stars on the horizon
Different Pen · 04.01.2022* New Year in a quiet, pandemic-strangled world. Good company, fortune-telling, sparklers and home-brewed strawberry wine.* New Year resolution: read...
in quarantine with Aslan
Different Pen · 31.12.2021New Year's Eve. Last night I shivered uncomfortably in bed, this morning a nurse stuck a cotton swab up my nostril and poked around in my brain. So this New Year's Eve I'm celebrating...
never such a blizzard before
Different Pen · 31.12.2021It was like a Christmas movie. The heroine puts her frail, elderly mother in the car together with all the Christmas gifts and takes off for the holiday celebrations with family. Only to be...
hyacinths and the not-normal existence
Different Pen · 25.12.2021I bought a third hyacinth just to make sure the scent stays in my home over Christmas. The pandemic takes another chokehold on society and sometimes...
darkness was upon the face of the deep
Different Pen · 16.12.2021And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.And God...
a month in outer space
Different Pen · 15.12.2021December is like outer space: cold enough to freeze your heart in an instant, dark enough to obliterate hope. A billion tiny lights and a lot of emptiness.What keeps my heart from freezing:...
oddly carrying a book
Different Pen · 28.11.2021I like walking through town on a winter's night, late, when cars are parked messily because of the piles of snow everywhere and the sidewalk is only a winding path through thick snowdrifts....
silk shirts in snow
Different Pen · 09.11.2021November is a cemetery full of candles for the dead, one of them mine. A cold mist of weariness, stifling dreams. A creative flow slowing into a muddy, fetid pool. Snow turning to rain, dancing to backache.It is also a...SUOMEN BLOGIT TOP-10
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