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daisies first, then breakfast
Different Pen · 2 pvI planted daisies before breakfast. I walked in the rain, saw merganser chicks sleep in a huddle, dozed by the fireplace. I dreamed of impossible journeys.fridge findings, three years later
Different Pen · 3 pvThree years ago, on a boring day alone at the office, I did a stock take of the office fridge (see it here). Some interesting findings there...my work among the fairies
Different Pen · 6 pvFrom a cabin in the woods I travelled in to work and started by going out for lunch.Today's work tasks, once that was done: sending a piece of wood to China, pondering the different...seafarers and lullabies
Different Pen · 16 pvOrdinary events by the sea: a man I admire sailed in and someone sang Mammas lilla gullgull - my childhood lullaby (of unknown and possibly ancient origin) which still makes me sleepy.live laugh love kill me now
Different Pen · 18 pvI'm sick of cheery, upbeat blog entries of the carpe diem, live laugh love variety. Especially my own. How can these sick, sugary creations arise from such a cynical mind? It was...exhausted and spider-bitten
Different Pen · 19 pvSummer is for intense living. There has already been wine on picnic blankets, seagull chick rescue operations, thunderstorms, flower picking, reading six year old magazines, heatwaves,...church bells, star-flowers, history
Different Pen · 21 pvThe forest is warm and pine-scented - welcoming me with birdsong, winding paths and summer adventures.Happy and alone, I pick lilies-of-the-valley in...planting lilacs
Different Pen · 22 pvDigging soil and planting lilacs, hot sun, salt water, a spider bite, barefoot in a hammock, feeling at home.a country opening around me tonight
Different Pen · 01.06.2020From a weekend in the wilderness, I will return to a reopened country on Monday morning.I have managed ten weeks in a closed country quite well. My...around the Högfors stove
Different Pen · 24.05.2020We sat around the Högfors stove, you and I, the ancient iron radiating heat into a chilly May evening. The evening sky still bright outside the old cottage, dust in the air around us.Death...the importance of rocks
Different Pen · 09.05.2020I like rocks. The large, mossy kind you find scattered all over Finland, granite or gneiss ones. I love walking with bare feet on course, sunwarmed rock or boulders covered in cool, velvety...a pandemic at my heels
Different Pen · 08.05.2020Empty streets, cold wind, sunlight. I walk past closed cafés and struggling shops. A pandemic at my heels. The air smells of dust clouds and hand sanitizer but swans are shouting the...darling books: the 'revenge' of the Galilean
Different Pen · 07.05.2020'You say he seemed out of his head?' said Demetrius, anxiously. 'Yes - dazed - as if something had hit him. And out there in that archway, he had a...oxygen deficiency and very long words
Different Pen · 27.04.2020What I'm studying in pandemic times: EU certificates of conformity, risk assessment, how to choose your personal protective gear, noise exposure...should have been in Florence
Different Pen · 24.04.2020April is the cruelest month and my favourite - heat and ice, birdsong and wildness.On the eve of my birthday I lounge in sunlight, with tea-green lamb's wool around me and coffee porter...the unprecedentedness is unprecedented
Different Pen · 11.04.2020For such an exciting time, with a pandemic locking down the entire world, bodies piling up and economies crashing left and right, life is really...still lost in the Delta Quadrant
Different Pen · 10.04.2020The pandemic drove me to go on a retro-trip on Netflix. I binge-watch Star Trek: Voyager, the series I loved madly twenty years ago.I've had no...wind and green marzipan
Different Pen · 25.03.2020The world is wild. The wind is wild.I couldn't sleep last night and now I stand in a school kitchen, cutting thousands of slices of princess cake. Strangers around me sort boxes of free...words to bring home
Different Pen · 22.03.2020I will change your nameYou shall no longer be calledWounded, Outcast,Lonely or AfraidI will change your nameYour new name shall beConfidence, Joyfulness, Overcoming One,Faithfulness, Friend of God,One Who Seeks My...no way to Venice
Different Pen · 15.03.2020I binge-watched Marco Polo, the TV series, on Netflix recently and dreamed myself away to the steppes of Central Asia.The Marco Polo of this series often looks up at the starry skies. His father, who cruelly left him...viral days
Different Pen · 14.03.2020These are viral days and I'm stocking up on books, vitamins, potatoes, Netflix, tofu and apples. The only thing I'm afraid of is tension neck and lack of love.When will I learn to breathe right, live right? A quarantine...the ice cannot fix this
Different Pen · 27.02.2020I went down to the bay, with its ice like a mirror all the way to the horizon, and sat on a sun-warmed rock. The ice was singing.It has not been a good winter. It has not been a winter at...travel report
Different Pen · 26.02.2020I went to Helsinki.I saw fire and some impressive art, studied science and rats for a day at the Heureka Museum and heard the blackbird sing in the middle of winter, in the middle of the city. I found English books and...tofu and tension
Different Pen · 15.02.2020This is a winter of huddling beneath a Helsinki quilt. Watching Netflix and the rain that should have been snow. Frying tofu and rolling wraps. Fleeing my noisy apartment building to work in cafés and libraries. Being...dust and a smell of copper
Different Pen · 08.02.2020The sun is so far away, there is dust and a smell of copper, builders are ringing my doorbell at 7 AM, my brain zaps me at night, I still haven't found true love, every little thing scares...
2019: the year of the twinge and the north wind
Different Pen · 28.01.2020* New Year: Pink bubbly in a storm, friends and deep talk.* Got better at planning my days - or not? ("World dominion, then food.")* Prison visit -...twenty twenty vision
Different Pen · 21.01.2020The year 2020 will be an anniversary - of the year I graduated and stormed wildly into the world, of the year I lost my father.It has started with storms and rain, a trip to the big city, a new laptop and the demonic...
