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like a brightly-lit classroom
Different Pen · 3 pvJanuary is like a brightly-lit classroom, full of loud voices, thick books, demands and promises. Frost in my hair, muscles cramping in the severe cold, cracked lips. Two layers of outdoor...
pseudo-crocheting
Different Pen · 9 pvToday's tea is wild appple-ginger-cinnamon and I have learned how to crochet. I think. My teacher wasn't really sure of herself so we may have invented an entirely new type of handicraft.My first effort certainly looks unique.see God and live
Different Pen · 10 pvReturned to The Shack, the book about a man who gets to confront God about all the pain he's suffered. I reread it when I'm angry, anxious or just looking for meaning.
in Ireland everything takes more than 15 minutes
Different Pen · 12 pvAddition to the recap of 2018:Ireland in April: A country looking more worn-down but with the same fabulous seafood and friendliness. I showed my...
2018: the year of silver and the Ski Club
Different Pen · 13 pv* New Year with the Ski Club that never skis.* A Spanish evening with tapas, wine and wild dancing with hot-blooded people while the weather was...being good on Epiphany
Different Pen · 16 pv"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." (John Steinbeck)It is Epiphany today. I dreamed I was being good last night. In some ways, I am. Good at some things. Sometimes...bubbly and the sign of the cross
Different Pen · 22 pvAs I waited for year 2019...I ate, drank, let a little boy play with my hair, received the sign of the cross on my forehead as I prayed, got the...parties, darkness and parties
Different Pen · 23 pvDecember was family parties, friends parties, office parties, darkness, too much sugar, badminton, laughing with strangers, three rainy and nostalgic days in the city that educated me, a...deep thought over garlic
Different Pen · 24 pvEvery time I fry garlic, or take the first sip of coffee, or blow out the candles after a party, I feel a little more loved.(for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth) - e.e. cummingssaints and songs and gingerbread
Different Pen · 11.12.2018I have watched the Nobel Banquet on TV and found inspiration among princes and sages. I have loved the darkest time of the year, loved by nobody...coming home, fourteen years later
Different Pen · 15.11.2018I'm back in the Magic Valley, fourteen years after it changed my life.Nobody here looks familiar - all my friends have moved on too. But the valley...daylight lamps, spiced tea
Different Pen · 14.11.2018November is monochromatic coldness, too much to do, jackdaws, favourite boots. The dreaded, sunless month of dying, always dark. Sugar cravings, evening classes. Start of the party season...bus stop: Inner Peace
Different Pen · 13.11.2018I have become a person who takes the bus. The bus is noisy, a bit smelly, the windows are sometimes too dirty to see through and the heater is often on full blast, creating a tropic...the numb fingertips of Halloween
Different Pen · 30.10.2018It always happens around Halloween, when you're in the middle of your busy, tired autumn and still far away from Christmas.The first mornings of...
the Carrie years, with a happy end
Different Pen · 16.10.2018Map of the school where I spent my first teenage years:It still gives me that haunted feeling. Endless corridors, filled with smirking faces, where I...starlings and my lost voice
Different Pen · 15.10.2018Starlings in the crabapple trees sing joy into my otherwise quiet world.I'm looking for my voice. I go walking in woods where I'm sprinkled with gold, every tree a jewel.The sun is at an...
mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Different Pen · 09.10.2018I dreamed of this back then, when I roamed the world and was feeling weary and homesick:After a successful day at the office, taking an interesting...the good darkness
Different Pen · 08.10.2018Cold rain, red and yellow trees, and people who are afraid of the dark. It is the heart of autumn.I am not afraid of autumn darkness. There are worse darknesses out there, and so much light to create.holding a man's aorta
Different Pen · 07.10.2018For some reason, I'm standing in an autopsy room. A man who was alive up until a few days ago, is lying naked on a slab with excrement on his inner thighs and his entire torso cut open. The...buses, biogas and kittens
Different Pen · 06.10.2018September is the month when I stare sunset in the face, celebrate chocolate harvest festival and become obsessed with beanies and pulse warmers.This year, it was also the month when I found...not just in a grain of sand
Different Pen · 17.09.2018I want to ...visit Prague, Barcelona and Venice.have endless cups of tea and then be rocked to sleep on the train from Helsinki to Beijing. shiver with fear in the heart of Africa on a hot,...I mix melancholia with excitement, bonfires w...
Different Pen · 03.09.2018August was:Encounters with hedgehogs and eagles, carnival smoothies with a doctor, midnight car crashes far away, sea buckthorn berries, a bonfire in...a woman like me, but stronger
Different Pen · 17.08.2018There is a woman, like me but stronger, that lives in a tiny flat in a big city, with a handsome man and a scruffy mongrel.Each day, the man and the woman take their weapon of choice and go...the summer of deep-sea monsters, never-ending...
Different Pen · 06.08.2018July was:The hottest summer for a hundred years, and an inability to move. A beach picnic with wine, another with cinnamon buns, a third with salmon...to helsinki, to be inspired
Different Pen · 26.07.2018We drive the 400 kilometres to Helsinki, the nations capital, to hang out on a lovely beach near the city centre and watch the beachvolley championships.To eat a weird lunch of cabbage...storm-gazer's day
Different Pen · 21.07.2018Storm-gazing across a darkening bay, breathlessly waiting for thunder rolling across land and sky. Making a show out of it, lining up sunchairs on the beach and handing out icecream, squabbling over whether that there...horizons and horseflies
Different Pen · 20.07.2018July sizzles under a record heatwave. This is where I'm happiest: in a cool sea, under a hot sun, with nothing but silent horizons and dreams and languages around me.I stay as close to the...
