tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500144491563926221.post2821498871074584796..comments2023-10-30T12:12:01.337+02:00Comments on Light Scrape: No flicker of astonishmentJuha Haatajahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00361255734892508254noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500144491563926221.post-61225392827291507612015-12-13T21:20:08.973+02:002015-12-13T21:20:08.973+02:00Thank you.
In Finland, the preparations for the 1...Thank you.<br /><br />In Finland, the preparations for the 100 year anniversary in 2017 are already quite active, and I'm sure there will be all kinds of interesting things to be experienced then. <br /><br />However, these days there have been some ugly signs of narrow-minded nationalism appearing, probably because of uncertainties concerning the future, as there are problems in the economy, and fear is easily turned to negative purposes. <br /><br />Also, there are lots of refugees coming to Finland, and great challenges in helping them to adapt, and to help us to adapt to this new situation. <br /><br />On the other hand, this isn't something new in Finland. My mother was a refugee when Finland ceded the eastern part of Karjala to Russia after the war of 1939-40, and her family lost their home and farmland. It isn't easy to adapt to a new environment, when you are speaking a different dialect, and have grown in a somewhat different culture. How much more difficult it must be to people for whom everything is new, from language to climate to culture.Juha Haatajahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00361255734892508254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3500144491563926221.post-51495038291790103122015-12-13T19:15:48.381+02:002015-12-13T19:15:48.381+02:00..so endless.. the variety of beautiful.. and, i d.....so endless.. the variety of beautiful.. and, i don't believe I am projecting creative opinion. -but receiving beauty as a natural fact.<br /><br />and happy Finnish independence day to you! -this inspired some bullet point reading -your independence seems so fresh and new relatively speaking.. but there is a world wide pattern that keeps me optimistic, despite its ugly and slow to backwards to back to slow pace<br /><br />Blessings!SHEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15826249683489196986noreply@blogger.com