Christmas year around

A few years ago around Christmas I heard from somewhere - or misunderstood? - someone saying that she had chosen to have Christmas year around, that one can well choose so. My Christmasses haven't been so very good but I like Christmas preparations and the idea of arranging things good for life. So I kind of took it as one thing to figure out part time how one could have somewhat Christamas like good sides in life in different times of the year. Christmas itself is for winter and for surviving the darkest time of the year, and for learning winter skills. But on other times of the year one can similarly find good ways to live those seasons and weathers, those views to life and the world. And one can in the middle of work like things to do find also something that is some mixture of comfortable and active, good for feelings. And a kind of freedom to be an individual, have hobbies, favourite professions, interests in the wolrd. And a mixture of making home good for living, enjoyable and going out to the world, having healthy spirit and healthy kind of versions of things, joy oflife, even though I think that joy is a characteristics of the more sporty life, which I long for.

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26th of July 2020   A very long text teaching skills of Christmas gnome like life in the modern world, over 250 advices and lots of links: http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html or just the blog address: https://learntalents.blogspot.com/ . 

31th of August 2020   Skills of Christmas gnomes 1. Gnome like life in the modern world (Finland) http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html
Skills of Christmas gnomes 2. Hero like skills   https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/01/some-observations-about-gnomes-and-like.html
Skills of Christmas gnomes 3. Tale like fascination in everyday real life    https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/02/some-additional-remarks-about-gnome.html
Skills of Christmas gnomes 4. Oath like love   https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/07/tale-like-things-in-everyday-life.html
The whole blog   http://learntalents.blogspot.com

About learning arts

I have liked arts all my life and that is typical in Finland, at least in the capital district where I grew up. In school and in hobbies I learmed basics of them but did not learnm to do them on my own. The last ten years here in Savonlinna, in my 40's, where there is a big summer time arts happenening: Savonlinna Opera Festival in every July, I have learned something of the professional side of arts. In the capital districts I learned of insight and quality of life, kind of wisdom which longed for to be communicated via arts. So the ground eixsted beforehand and here in Savonlinna I have learned ofexpression and of the work like side of arts.
Free time at home, own peace, interest in arts, own insight, good generalskill level, interest in painting and music too, searching for good siúbjects, the ages old language of animals and plants, wish to communicate things of value in life to the younger generations, a good understanding of how work rythms affects the quality of one's work and cultivating just quality, sincere liking of arts and of the subjects and wisdom of life that suits the audience, doing also work like parts that demand time like reserving time for certain moment that one wants to derscribe or to discerning how some part of melody goes, maybe certain note, and later one can often do such quicker, an interest in skills and wisdom of life.

About shelter

Shelter like here in my home in Savonlinna, Finland, is a question of choosing the biggest factors of one's life so that they kind of shelter the kind of life I want to live, like for example what kind of job and choosing things benefical for it, and choosing other major activities in one's life so that they fit one's character, and choosing where one lives and what one buys and what one associates with so that they shelter these: are planned to give these good possibilities, like good quality equipment chosen with time and used with dedication. And then trying to find in one's life wise solutions, and living in peace with the rest of the world, even if not always with all the people one associates with. Food, religion, culture's ways and values, music, work, supported habits (hobbies) give shelter too.

3.3.2020   I somehow got stuck writing a long text about the possibilities of Christmas gnome like life in the modern world. It became largely a list of links to my other texts which are better.
"Gnome like life in the modern world http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html
part 2. https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/01/some-observations-about-gnomes-and-like.html
(some additional remarks https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/02/some-additional-remarks-about-gnome.html )"

About succeeding in shopping

 About shopping, from my text Gnome like life in the modern world   http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html

"Making home nice according to one's likings and comfortable,maybe clothes too such is an important part of finding a pleasant way to live for just oneself. In such green plants on the window and things that one loves are important. Often a different chain of shops offers different kinds of good sides in things and has a different variety as the cheapest things to buy, so it is worth checking, for example for some single cheap thing to buy but well chosen and with regard to what kind of ways of living and skill levels & tyoes the shop aims the sold things to especially support. Some things are sold just for certain age class in the area the shop is in, and that depends on the decade: what the kids of adults interested in the local main professional interests need if there are many types of people in the kids, and so they are not necessarily for sale later when the child has grown up, so there is the time for them while they are for sale and things sold in a shop change from season to season and from year to year."

"How one buys food and artifacts from a shop matters a lot to how content one is with them. If there are for example several types of yoghurt with roughly the same price, it is good to choose for each family member the one according to her/his ideal of a way of living she/he wants to associate with so much, like berries or a lot or sugary, grandparents like or like celebration, etc so that one is more satisfied and so one feels as if with a fuller stomach and so it is possible to get back the extra cost by not needing to buy something else. Likewise when buying something else. For example computers have colour coded user friendliness features, at least this HP of mine."

"Of how wellequipment and other things bought fit into their purpose, matters a lot how much time and interest you invest on them. You should visit more than one shop to see what the shops are like and what kinds of things they offer. If you support the ways and values and skill level of the town you live in, then there ought to be some shop that sells things targeted to people like you, but it also means that you ought to buy from your own price level and according to your interests and likings while taking into account what the town's culture is like. If you buy just something, it is quite likely to go ashtray. But if you take a closer look at the material, tool or whatever it is and at the different sides and possibilities of usage of it, "oh it looks like as if it were..., coukld it be that it could be used to...", and use it according to it's spirit, while maybe ready to go to the shop again and buy something extra which needs time to catch the new ideas and adapt to the changes inplans according to what the more skilled whomanufacture the things know of good ways of doing and of using them. I guess that it could be likewise when choosing an apartment or the like."


In Finnish about succeeding in shopping, at http://asiakkaanavain.blogspot.com

About cleaning and tidying

"55. If at home it is just cleaned but not things nicely or just messy, it aren't as nice and bringing energy as arranging things nicely and sometimes when one has something nice to do which has a nice atmosphere then leave something of that in sight to bring nice looking, well working pleasant environment and life."
 https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html

"Nice result of tidying & Greeb plants nicely

"In the neighbouring apartment someone moved furniture and washed the floor etc. When he left, I noticed that it had been a man. I guess a man tuidying moves furniture and vacuum cleans. That would leave a rough result without like women making things nice: for example a woolen blanket or a chair cushion and nice artifacts to make things nicer. Without moving the furniture the tidying would lack a taste of life and energy. I guess that the best result and nicest is when the same person does both.

About making things nice: do in a good mood and do not correct details so as to not to bring work like atmosphere there and spoil the atmosphere of the whole. For example spreading a blanket or a carpet."


Green plants nicely
" plants are better looking because the place and position of each flowerhas been chosen on a good day's good moment, like on a sunny free time moment, naturally momentarily like feels good then, and then left the flower and the flower pot there without touching anything in it, without twisting a leaf, also when watering, for weeks or months, so that the flower adjusts it's position according to the light and the space it has like is good for it to grow and like looks beautiful.""
From https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html

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5.3.2019  If some time at home there is some place that is more difficult to clean, then the end result may depend on when you try to clean it, for example what is in your mind of social thing or things done, and so the next time the end result can be better, for example better thought of and more light, more strenght.

14. maaliskuuta 2019    My mom taught me to clean like a machine: to one place starightforwardly some kind of result while on the edged like after an explosion. I think that it is better to clean and tidy in some other way: thinking what kind of whole is this, how and why would it be good this way, why is this a good way tyo clean, and so feel better afterwards and also when tidying and cleaning.

I think that cleaning ought to be common sense like way to make places good for living and doing, somewhat like a healthy animal cares for it's feathers or fur, and so it is good for it, even magnifient to live. But then instead of a forced way ofg doing one ought to follow one's own motivation, use good ways of doing, learn for life about good ways of doing, rythm, about good practical possibilities, about differencies of ways of doing, etc.  Tidying and lceaning ought not be like a square: here begins cumbersomely and one just has to do, then one h´just has to do labour, and then just ends here was it. One ought to have motivation, practical deed along it, good enough physical fitness so as to not to get squeezed because of the task, lots of common sense and enough social distance for one to do right choices, that have learned about the rest of one'slife and not stuck collapsing ones, way of doing energetic and not forcing oneself, farsighted with healthy spirit and not square like.
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15th January 2020
In cleaning one's home or other ordinary environment, I think it is important to not to just remove some things and leave the place unkept and nasty feeling, but instead tidy at the same time, like cleaning the floor from scrap, dust and dirt and then placing the carpet like is nice for living. And for work habits it is important to have a good mood and energy, enjoyable motion, so tat for cleaning the floor for some it is nice to be agile and clean on one's knees, changing agilely place, while for others it is nice to fing a well working equipment with with you can clean the floor standing and walking around, with calm quite pleasant motions and a good mood.

31th of January 2020
I do not know for sure, but my impression is that methods of cleaning ought to depend on the person, since a different character does the cleaning job in different ways and so needs different equipment, soaps etc. Only if you are a good team, can you copy some of the other person's ways and succeed, even though it may be that some equipment is good for the task while some other equipment is not. But for example which other professions you like and admire, use their ways of thinking and doing, tehir values, may affect a lot what is a good way of doing. Also, if you for example wet the floor, you as a person typically wet it another amount than some other person, and so if you want to remove the dirt, you have to wait a different time and repeat different number of tyimes with a different tecxhnique too. A good guide for good ways is your idea of what you like: you maybe like it because it works for you and your favoyurite ways of working, while some other could for example be too dangerous for your eys and skin. And so it also varies from person to person, in how big bunches and how often doing you achieve the best result: do you find giood enjoyable ways of working immediuately but tire and start crying or do your start clumsily but then find an enjoyment of doing but overdo it compared to your forces?

24th of February 2020
"Spring cleaning
When you get a spark of enthusiasm of spring, you can among other things tidy and make things nice at hiome so that you are along with the season with a happy mood. But in April one is usually forceless, so one has energy and good mood with which to leave things joyful mostly in March and May. It is customary to wash windows in the spring when sunshine shows the dirt in them.
In February at the spring side of winter it is good time to go through places that one hasn't had the energy to tidy for months. In March sunny days it is nice to clean in ordinary ways and to make places nice for spring. In April one does not tidy so much but one ought to live quite speedily and soften home in some ways by making places nice if the landscape behind the window is strenously grey. In May one already makes home nice for summer."
http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
Please observe! This means enthisiasm about the spring, not about the tidying itself. Like: "It was so nice outdoors. The spring is already here! How can it be like this indoors? Wait a moment, I will tosss these aside and wash this table with a few round strokes,so that it is more like spring here in too. Now, look how much better! What if we should do this to a few other places too? If we just have the energy to it."  

26th of December 2020   How one feels about cleaning and tidying, and what one's mood is, depends on what is one's approach and which moment one starts the task. If one does not care when, but just forces oneself to the task, that feels like against one's own will and so leaves a nasty feeling and a not so well working way of doing the work, which then somewhat is seen in the result too. But if one thinls that one would like to clean today,to get things nice and clean, a comfortable enviornment that is good to live in, and that one would like some practicvaö to do, like washing for example, clean water, and some motion which one would like to do in a good way, and that one would like to be active and energetic the amount that suits one's character, and so spend tome time in cleaning too. If then on soem such moment one starts the task and has enough peace for it to work out well, it leaves a nice feeling and that is somewhat seen also in the results. So one can also learn better ways of doing.

8th of January 2021   How one cleans depends on the person and on the occasion, what is cleaned and how and how long did it take and did one get how tired etc. For one to feel well abotu it, I guess that one ought not compare it much with the feelings of others, since they did in a different way, so maybe it is informative about different ways of doing but for one to feel well, one ought to know that one's sensations and feelings connect to what kind of dirt there was and how much and was there bacteria and what kind (food or what) and how one cleaned it: what came after it, washed feeling or what, and how one got tired, partly from physical labour which often makes one stronger in the long run, or from bad work habits which ought to be avoided, or from dirt or from bacteria, or from too much detergent, pr from failures, or from emotional strain. When one's feelings correspond to what one has just done and one recignizes right what sensation was caused by which factor, one feels like having done something, like getting stronger so, and maybe learning skills, and kind of more feels like with soem achievement also on the physical level. 

There are small animals, insects or bacteria where one cleans or at least the atmoshpere afterwards if it isn't so good and happy, means that their living environment got disturbed, and as such is maybe that if one cleans with straight square edges, the animals etc worry and are unhappy, while if one leaves in sight at the edges the way one worked like "squaash" like this I clean, then the animals understand much better and feel better and humans too. 

For cleaning to be nice the equipment ofúght to be clean, and that measn that one ought to choose such fabrics that are easy and comfortable to clean many times in a row while one cleans home. 

Moving to live in another town

If one isn't satisfied with one's life where one lives and where one maybe grew up, then one usually cannot change the area's culture and ways since they depend on the location and on which good sides it offers to those who move to live there. So what is lacking, is that one should have chosen oneself where one wants to live in, and that one ought to move to live there, in a place whose culture, ways and main professions etc one likes, is soulmates with. Then one ought not take along so much things from the old place but instead buy new ones from the place that one moves to. And so the cost of moving aren't so high, if it is just a one-way bus ticket or a couple of car journeys with someone to help to carry the things. But in the new place there are new things to take into account, also crime. And if one loves the new culture, one isn't so much satisfied with any need of journeys back to the old place. But if one needs to buy all things new then that of course costs a lot, even though it can help to adapt to the new culture, but to begin with one propably does not recognize the local options, groups of people to belong to and what obe oneslef would be like living there.

My texts aim for giving more room for happy life

I list here some links to my English texts. The aim of just about all my texts is to give more room for happy life and freedom in moral ways via good quality objective thinking.

Crime is economically disadvantageous   http://2013paradise.blogspot.com/2017/08/basics-of-my-paradise-theory.html

More room for free time according to feelings along healthy ages old ways of living in working life and studies http://workandfreetime.blogspot.fi

Useful skills of Finns http://Finnishskills.blogspot.fi

Learn good quality objective thinking http://quickerlearning.blogspot.fi

To a dream job http://todreamjob.blogspot.fi

Rationality of feelings (videos) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5413BA37709C0F53

Future of computers objectively (philosophy: feelings, rationality and moral for computers)   http://feelingcomputers.blogspot.com/2011/08/far-future-with-computers-what-will.html


Attempts at curing illnesses etc http://curingguesses.blogspot.com/2018/12/index-with-cure-suggestions-after-word.html (an index of 500 headers with cure suggestions in them translated plus 50 of the texts)    
(Finnish language original http://parantamisesta.blogspot.fi or .com is somewhat longer.)


Gnome like life: doing things with a good spirit, tale like fascination in modern towns' everyday life   http://learntalents.blogspot.com/2018/09/gnomes-or-more-likelily-doing-things-in.html

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27. October 2018   Many of my texts teach quite big pieces of skill, even talents. So if you read them and learn and start something new at least partly based on it and it goes quite well or at least much better than earlier, then many others too would maybe like to hear about such texts of mine, please recommend them or at least mention, so that the option is open to many others too.

Contact with the nature

This where I live is of course only a town environment with some trees, but a contact with the nature can teach especially skills of living with the seasons, see my long text http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html , and somewhat also other skills, see this quotation of mine:

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Nature protection abroad: build a better contact with the nature

http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2015/02/visiting-finnish-nature.html

" Visiting the Finnish nature
The Finnish nature is famous for it's unique fragile beauty. Also
Finland as a nation without much written history has it's roots in the
old forest dwellers who were mainly farmers and at earlier times
hunters. Most modern Finns spend a week or so of their summer holiday
on a summer cottage by a lake shore.
Finns have a different attitude toward nature than most foreigners,
because the nature here is very different from the nature say in
Central Europe, where the nature is mostly farms and gardens and parks
too. The Finnish nature is wild, not gardened, and it is praised for
it's beauty and peace, and it is scarce: there are not somany trees
and not so many dangerous animals. The maybe best way to learn to walk
in the forest is to visit a small forest patch in town or some well
kept recreation area, and pick some ordinary not-at-all-rare stone,
flowers, fallen branch, fallen autumn leaves or the like for home
decoration. If you mainly admire the nature for it's beauty, you will
walk in the forest much like the Finns do. Then you also notice where
you are going, which route you came and the like, so that you do not
get lost as easily. Finns value forests for their recreational value
and for their connection with the original ages old ways of living of
all humans close to the nature. Remember to wear warm clothes, not to
let them get wet and have extra clothes in case it gets cold. Take
always care that you know how to get away from the forest!

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A quotation from my blog http://einoleinopoems.blogspot.fi . Eino
Leino is a very famous old Finnish poet, writing about the beauty of
nature and the laws governing life, and about love etc

"About the possibilities of going to the nature in other countries
Finland is sparcely populated and there are lots of forests which one
can visit. And since we live in the north and the cool and cold
weathers prevent dangerous animals from living here, and since the
wolves and bears have been hunted to a small population, visiting
forests is safe. In other countires it is not the same in most, since
there is more population, less nature, more dangerous animals and no
custom of everybody visiting a forest. But if you are intriguided by
the idea of the beauty and peace of nature, it would be good to find a
way to enjoy them at least somewhat. Gardens, trees, parks, meadows,
sea and shores, even flowers on the window offer a touch with the
nature. So do scenic spots, views out of a bus window where there is
green, farming and nature reserves. In a way it does not matter how
big spot of nature you have, you could even enjoy trying an insect's
or bird's view of the near environment which is often beautiful and
magnifient. On the other hand, the more the environment allows you to
drown into enjoying the nature, without sight of build things or human
foot-print spoiled things, the more profound your experience of peace,
harmony, health and fracturelessness is, the more profound your touch
with the ages old healthy natural ways of living on all areas of life,
the more refreshing your experience is, the more it gives energy and
serves as a holiday.
Another question is safety. Generally there are three types of safe
places: ones with so many people that it has been taken care that
there is safe, ones with nobody and no dangerous animals either and
thirdly places which do not tend to have any danger. Parks have lotrs
of people, but odd times may be dangerous Places where people live but
where there are trees, for example on the sides of the roads and
yards, may have atranquil atmosphere, one of nature's peace and
harmony some time (in the summer time?) when it is daytime but a quiet
moment or a few quiet moments. Some scenic routes offer harmony and
beauty even if there go cars by quite often, if just the views are
with a fascination: there a tiny flower by the roadside, there the
shelter of trees, there a view over the shore to a lake, there a bench
with a view, shelter and a comfortable atrmosphere. One can also visit
forest patches that are not so much wandered on, if one goes to
different places, in different times, often with company and a car of
one's own. By the sides of garden area's roads there is often tall
grass with flowers, butterflies etc, a world of it's own, very summer
like, kind of an ideal of love. And even in the winter time there is
the weather, the feeling of the elements with trees living their ages
old way of life.

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5. of July 2016
From th text about the seasons
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
"The beauty of nature is partly a question of a way of looking. One
should be interested in the multitude and richness of forms and
colours, of the atmosphere of plants' growth whne looked among other
things along the way they have grown, the magnifient moments of bird's
flight, treen looked from near, the nature from the point of view of
an insect or bird where even a small branch or grass can be biggest
factors of the living environment, the atmosphere of the time of tha
day with it's birdsong, light coming through the leaves to a mist, how
one always finds new variations slightly different details full of
feeling and atmospheric for example in pine's surface and it's thick
branches, in the beauty of a forest lanscape viá trees, the different
atmosphere of each type of lants etc."

Also safety when one happens to meet people in lonely places is
important. One question in it is paying attention to other people's
sense of space: what is their home, what near environment, which are
the common roads for all to travel, do they enjoy solitude or want to
exchange a couple of words about the beauty of nature, etc. Another
point in that is allowing people socially room to live in:
http://healthilymoral.blogspot.fi/2016/06/finding-safety.html plus
links from there."

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Relationship to the nature is not just watching the nature. It has to
do with the sense of atmospheres: recognizing the time of the day from
how high the sun shines, recognizing the basic features of the nature
environment like "This is typical pine forest." or lake shore with
splashing waves, stony shore, tree branches by the shore. It also has
to do with understanding the basic actions of how animals live and
what is the style of the plant life, like an ant running, carrying,
meeting other ants, watching, etc. In this sense in these basic things
in life the nature offers fine forefigures in such basic skills, but
it has to be the nature of your own climate and culture and not some
too faraway place, even though one can learn something of such too,
like of arctic nature about staying warm. But relationship to the
nature also has to do with understanding nature's language: admiring
the magnifient beauty of the nature landscapes and other impressive
nature views, kind of absorbing what the nature is like, how high it's
skill in those basic things in life, what style it lives and how it
communicates to humans.

Birds are social and eager to take part in the life in the landscape
around them. They may nag or tsirp and their songs are said to be akin
to music, kind of original form of music and some birds sing with high
skill. But like wild animals at öarge, birds live their separate life
from humans, may build a nest, have offspring, live their lives in the
affairs of birds, kind of symphatic, kind of beautiful and fierce, a
refreshing element also in the town environment. A bird's flight is
often magnifient to look at. "



https://kalevalainenglish.blogspot.com/2018/02/kalevala-and-skills-aim-of-this.html

" Kalevala and skills, the aim of this translation
- February 28, 2018
Finns have wisdom that most other nationalities lack. Part of that
wisdom comes from reading Kalevala, but Kalevala is a difficult book
to translate. This wisdom comes from learning via close relationship
with the nature and living with the four seasons, in ever varying
weathers. There is wisdom that one can learn from the challenges of
one's life, wisdom about doing one's very best and learning new
skills, and getting strenght to other things done from what one has so
learned, so that it was not just one experience but way to learn for
all of one's life.Also when one encounters something concretical and
ages old, one can learn about the basic nature of humans, about the
wisdom encoded in our nature, about wise ways of living, about
profound ages old way to live and be social, kind of basic form of
life, something which is at the core of every human deed adn fate,
even in these modern times. So my intentipn has not been to translate
Kalevala as poems or fine words but only to translate some things of
what it teaches skills for life, wisdom about the human nature and
about ways to learn about life, about what is profound in the world.
But Kalevala is a long book and this is just a beginning of the ephos.

The Finnish relationship to the Finnish nature is essential in
understanding Kalevala. But of course foreigners seldom know the
Finnish nature. So I have tried to translate the nature contact in a
general level that would apply in other climates too, even if there
are less possibilites of wandering in the nature. It is a big problem
in Finland for foreigners that they tend to get a flu and it just
lasts and lasts and so they are just ill and dizzy and don't learn
anything much while in thius climate. So what they need to learn, they
ought to learn in their original climate, even if things there are
very different from Finland. The nature is of course different too,
but in this way of learning the point isn't mostly in what the animal
or plant does, except that it is ages old, but instead on it having a
varying rythm (courses twinding in a structured way), on it having
wisdom in it's ways of doing, in encoded in it's atmosphere, in it
touching our ages old nature. And on the other hand it learning,
especially at quite young age, about what it does also other skills
needed for life, like from watching beauty of nature one learns to
look at landscapes and observe a lot, understand life in the living
and gain wisdom of life.

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My other texts offer suport for this endeavour: I have written about:
* living wisely the seasons
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
* healthy ways of living and doing
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html
* learning thinking skills http://pikakoulu.blogspot.fi ,
http://quickerlearning.blogspot.fi
* learning other skills http://learntalents.blogspot.fi
* working life and feelings http://workandfreetime.blogspot.fi
I have also translated some famous Finnish poems:
http://EinoLeinopoems.blogspot.fi


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February 28th is the time of the year when winter skills are at their
highest, and so it is also Kalevala's day in Finland, day of the
Finnish culture.

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http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2018/06/weathers-charm.html

"Thursday, June 7, 2018
Weathers' charm
I do not know for sure how being with the weathers, their fascination
and the reaching for the skills they need, is taught. But maybe if one
as young or beginner would go out to look at some fascinating weather,
like storm coming or storm having just passed, and just look at the
magnifient clouds, sun shining somewhere through, feel the atmosphere
of the moment with someone who understand the charm of such and has
the skills of living such weathers, for example one's papa, and at the
same time another separate thing is to be prepared for the adjustemnts
between cold and hot, moisture level changing, rain coming, sun
passing through etc, which one can learn from wild birds which do well
and from the tree species orginally from the climate one is in. So
having trees and other nature at the spot is a good side.
Similarly one can later learn about the charm of milder weathers from
those who like them, enjoy them. This is one reason why it is good to
talk of the weather: to learn skills in living, to get advices from
those who like them, them telling what is it that charms then in mild
rain sun passing through etc.
But I think it is very climate dependent what weather one should start
from and which to emphasize to find a pleasant and healthy way of
living all the weathers and moments of the day. Often more sporty
moving is good for the cooler weathers and for varying weATHERS.

By the words of a traditional Russian song (In the forest not a leaf
moves) "Even if I would forget everything else, this charming moment I
would never forget."

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6. September 2018   I am not sure of this, but my impression is that each weather, also in widely different climates, is best lived in a way which you find when you pay central attention to some fine whole of the nature, like an atmospheric branch in nature, that is especially spirited in it's view of how to live such wetaher and to which heights one's wisdom of life, skill, virtues of character and enjoyment of life could so rise,for example on some animal of the wilderness, and from siuch viewpoint pay attention to it's view on the ways of living: that is what is the way of living such wetahers and such temperatures, maybe such days, evenings, nights & mornings. Follow that advice and search for a new advice when the weather is clearly different.""

Cooking tip (better tasting from the same food)

"About cooking

Translated from my blog http://tunteetjatekemisentapa.blogspot.fi/2016/04/ruuanlaitosta.html

"Better tasting from the same food

When you cook food or estimate the amounts of it's substances, and if you have earlier cooked the same or something quite like it, then you have an emotionally felt estimate of when it is fried or with which amounts of substances, it would have been at it's best or just as certain type at it's best. And when you take  to be your guidelines those emotionally felt estimates about time lenghts, cookedness, amounts of food substancies, about which elements fit well together, etc, then with the same amount of labour, time, money and foods you get better food.

Likeise if you have skills in other skills, ten rythming your actions according to emotionally felt estimates you can reac your best.""

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Another cooking tip from my text about healthy ways of living and doing things http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html

"264. If one does something in rigid ways as if work all the time, one's understanding does not develop into as good as via more complex rich ways of doing even the same work, much less than life skills at large would give. That is why it would be good to instead of a very detailedly followed single perspective, give room for a taste of life, for one to see where one is going and for skills to develop. So for example when moving food while cooking it one would not mix it to completely even but instead leave it more uneven, so as to have in sight some of how one worked, so that one can then notice that if I would have for example cooked thicker, would the taste and feel have been better, so that there is a richness of options in sight and one can see where in it would be good, so that one learns all the time new things, even if otherwise one would not have learned anything else otherwise than remembering past times and comparing to them in one's memory, but at those time maybe one needed different amount of different kind of food because od´f different things done, weather etc."
 

Following Finnish wisdom brings a good position also abroad

My homecountry Finland in northern Europe has a wellworking grass-roots democracy that values the freedom of individual, healthy ways of living, carrying responsibility and healthy common sense with a picture of the whole. These are skills that one can learn and that bring the same kind of effects also abroad, but of course with some alterations according to the country's culture. I have written advices about learning these skills in my blog http://Finnishskills.blogspot.fi . Rationality one can learn from my thinking course (see the same blog, it is quite easy but demand that eyesight works ok). Big freedom is based on the rule "Live and let others live" which is not literal and brings advantage also at the times of war, also abroad but especially in seeing the situation in peace negotiations. It means roughly: It isok to be selfish in ways positive for happy life but not to mess with the lives of others, except fairly is ok. It is a ruleapplied to all (see my blog). If one always follows these, these bring a very high position and a freedom to live in one's own ways, happily, also abroad. Please take a look at my blog!

Money tree

I have for some time now had a green plant called "rahapuu" which means money tree and which costed under ten euros and which is said to teach about money. I haven't learned about jobs but I have when I had had it for a few months as a green plant learned about buying things with small money so that I succeed better in what I buy. It is something like investing in buying lots of thought, especially emotions and being open to possibilities, not so fixed view of what to buy and not with any more money than before, but it brings a result as if one were much richer so. As far as I know there are different variations of the plant species,so one should buy it froma place that one likes and from a culture that one likes to follow. It isn't always available, so one should wait some time to catch the chance of buying it.

There is something luxury in the way of using what one has bought, even if one would not buy anything new but just have the same old things, kind of investing time and insight to areas of life that one loves.

3. September 2018
I guess that the right time to buy a money tree is in the very beginning of spring winter, when it isn't so extremely cold outdoors on the way home for the plant and when there is the increasing light of the whole spring and the warmth and continuing lightness  of summer so that the plant gets a good start in it's new place to grow in in your home. So I guess that the start isn't always working out if one buys it some other time of the year. At least my money tree dropped some leaves and is now smaller than when I bought it.

Comments to an old story

My dog told me today that the tendency of some small dog breed to misplaced knee ball seems to connect to them admiring the Japanese dog which waited two (?) years on the grave of his master. I guess that the influence they get from the death of the dog owner makes them less energetic, vulnerable to such accidents. On the other hand curing a misplaced knee ball http://curingguesses.blogspot.com/2017/07/about-giving-birth-knee-ball-misplaced.html might help pregnant women in preparing for childbirth.
I also come to think that the dog did not wait without a good reason: graveyards need trees on them to shelter with their leaves and their ages old wisdom of nature on the road to life after death, and to help those in sorrow to live wisely.
But if one admires the fact that someone waited two years, maybe one would like to hear that on countryside towns and smaller places grandparents wait for the whole year for their younger generations to visit, and do it in a good way: being a place of the grandparents is part of the life of countryside towns and villages, so they get support in such skills and a good balance of things in life. But the different generations live very different kind of lives, and so the meeting cannot be long, even though it can be very valuable to the grandchildren. Savonlinna is one of such towns.

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An old picture of mine of a lila ukulele with pictures in it, which I have learned somehow eases things away from being ruined without a reason, but brings very foreign cultural influence that I am not sure of if it is good at all or not, kind of religious instrument but nowadays I have another red ukulele too and it too seems to have some effect on the same direction, an instrument of the paradise islands.

But I have mainly played some familiar chords on these. Songs I play on a keyboard which has some 200 different instrument sopunds.

(22. July 2018   Ukuleles cost 30 euros or more. The colour symbolozes the type of parafise and also the trade mark matters. It is worth buying one with a beautiful tone and it from a town that you like.)

Distance and cultural differencies

If you have always been in love with some culture and country abroad, I guess that it is ok to move to live there, if you are kind of their soulmate and understand them. But if you don't know which country would be such, you would not be so fitted to move there, you are not so eager to adapt, to change to their ways and values. If you think that your own country is ok, there are many different kinds of places to live in and different kinds of jobs in your own country too. Just find a place which you are in love with in your soul, since that is a strong good side if you move to live there, it also makes you adapt to the different professions, different view to life, different things especially taken care of, different skill level, different way of living. I moved 300km from the capital to a countryside town inlands and the difference in what life is like here is huge. But part of the difference comes from me being older and having different kind of jobs in my mind.

Choosing an apartment

When I was a young adult I thought that the world is full of options to choose from, fro example apartments, if I just don't search for some very narrow type. But I have later noticed that the living environment matters a lot. Each typeof living ought to have it's own charm and a neighbourhood that understands about just such good sides. But me myself I am of some type too. If I would very much fit into somewhere that would be a good choise, if it is like my dreams and not just what I have gotten used to, but it should be at my skill level too and at the right price level. Often choices in adult life presuppose that you have chosen from a very wide variety of options just your favourite ones, for example learned about foreign cultures and considered moving to live somewhere where you like the ways of living, thinking, values, people's character, etc, instead of sticking to something someone from your work environment or your parents recommend. So you would be in love with the town, it's culture, professions, ways, it's ways of living. And so you would there be a much more likable fellow, much more on the right road in the world for you. Sometimes something fits with what you have been recommended but is kind of square and kind of flat in atmosphere, so that is not your own choice, since you should choose something that has many good sides that you like. Sometimes you see how someone else lives and that has a charm, but you would make your own choices and that would across time lead you to a different way of living, which is better suited in some other kind of place and apartment. So if you find somegood options quite far from where you started at but are not sure if they work out for you, maybe you did not consider all the things you love: what if you would choose the place from a wider group but according to your ideals, character, skill level, dreams, etc and a suitable apartment then there: would it automatically be meant for just your type of person in those respects? If not, consider the place again, maybe ask for their recommendations about good places to visit. Sometimes some apartment appears nice but brings some kind of bad luck and/or nonworking solutions. Then it is propably chosen with too square thinking: you should learn to understan more with everyday common sense about the good sides you are looking for and about what kinds of apartments where offer such for people like you.

Finding a good place for oneself to live in

Savonlinna, a countryside town in Southern Savo in eastern Finland in North Europe, is a tourist town largely because of the summer time opera festival in a medieval castle in the center of the town. The place has it's own fascination and is for me in a different part of the country than the capital district I grew up in.
What if you find these pictures somehow fascinating but not exactly the right choiuse for you, how could you find a good choise for you? Generally in adult life, and often also earlier, in civilized countries people suppose that you have yourself chosen the things you have in your life, because you like them and because they suit you and your taste, your values. But often for young people and for part of the older ones too that is not so, you just grew up somewhere and listened to the good choices recommended there, but the end result was not in practyise as perfect for you as it was for them who so much liked such choices.
So you should move, change profession, pick favourite things, so that with each change you choose something holiday like, something that you could find pleasant endlessly. These things should be such that they give you social environment and place in the society that suits just your character, your likings and values, your idea of what a good way of working is like (it is often in a different profession that you would be suited to, or half way to that some nice kind of job and faviurite things as hobbies http://todreamjob.blogspot.fi ) and your idea of hwat kind of things would be nice in a good home. In these it is good to reach fairy tale far in the first attempts, since for example many elderly do live in a home like grandparents' ideal. And houses near parks or on smaller places often have trees and other nature environment just outside the window, if you for example like such, and then you can arrange your home so that these good sides are central if you so wish. But all town do not have equal possibilities to everything and that is why holiday travel to fascinating places teaches you about the options, if you are not too rigid-minded in arrangements of working life, and so you can often choose something quite far in that direction after having had that as an interest or hobby for a year or after having found an option that suits just you, sometimes one can find such already on the first day. But fo course places are different: in some tourism place there may be lots of crime, murders.

My view on ways of living

I am for healthy ways of living and doing: See my long list of advices about them http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html .

Other links to my texts

For those who feel too much squeezed http://mythoughtsaboutnews.blogspot.fi/2018/02/for-too-much-squeezed-people.html

"I tanslate:
"... Would it help to move to live in another town (or village tec) that you feel in love with in your spirit and which main professions you like and it's biggest happenings too (and which intelligence and skill level is roughly the same as yours), see for example link??? Also to change profession and to change what type of person one is to one's favourite professions, to several dream type things I mean, wouldpropably help a lot, see http://todreamjob.blogspot.fi .   Otherwise I guess that the comon sense my thinking course teaches, would help, see http://quickerlearning.blogspot.fi , healthy spirit, see

http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html , the usefulness of free time to work http://workandfreetime.blogspot.fi and maybe the connection of feelings to the way of doing http://learntalents.blogspot.fi  and supporting moral http://healthilymoral.blogspot.fi . " 

The links in English:

Translating first the missing link:
" From the point of view of a human, I would say that lack of money causes forced situations to humans, propoably to farmers too, and that causes harm to both human´s and animals. Forced situations get fewer and less harsh if you yourself are along the main courses in life that people on that district usually hope from their life and from the functioning of the society, and which values they value, which ways of doing etc, so in other words if you are in harmony with the surrouding culture's flow that you take part in, which maybe is mainly a question of making choices according to your dreams, so that you are more sensitive to the dreams of others and consequently to where and how, to whaty and which way you get support and what you on the other hand should sensitively avoid."

http://todreamjob.blogspot.fi

 http://quickerlearning.blogspot.fi

http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html

http://workandfreetime.blogspot.fi 

http://learntalents.blogspot.fi

 http://healthilymoral.blogspot.fi

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5.3.2018   My translation of the beginning of Kalevala, the Finnish national ephos, a long collection of wise myth like poems formerly transmitted from mouth to mouth http://kalevalainenglish.blogspot.fi/
11.2.2019   The translation suits all climates and most vegetation types and seeks to teach some of the wisdom of the Finnish original.

Links to my texts

My name is Kaisa Hannele Tervola and I am a Finnish, North European woman.I have written a lot. Propably the most interesting for many is my objective text about the future of computers http://feelingcomputers.blogspot.fi/2011/08/far-future-with-computers-what-will.html .
Also widely interesting is the thinking course http://quickerlearning.blogspot.fi . My main work is my paradise theory book http://2013paradise.blogspot.fi/2017/08/basics-of-my-paradise-theory.html . There are also other texts of mine that might be important: feelings and working life http://workandfreetime.blogspot.fi , to dream job http://todreamjob.blogspot.fi and cure guesses for illnesses http://curingguesses.blogspot.fi . Many elderly women maybe would like my knitting tips http://learntalents.blogspot.fi/2017/10/knitting-tips.html .

A list of my blogs (about 80 blogs) http://www.blogger.com/profile/11619291894046036529
My old video channel (about a thousand videos, most videos and all photograpfs in them by me, photograpfs from Nuuksio national park & recreational forest and lake district in Espoo etc, and some buildings and small flowers near by from Helsinki Vanhankaupunginlahti, some also from my home in Espoo and later in Savonlinna) http://www.youtube.com/khtervola

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14.2.2018   Writing to the internet isn't just figuring out something and then writing it down, as if robbing your ideas from you or trying to fake that all is interesting to others. Instead it sis like coming to think many different thoughts, learning new things, having teaching skills and every now and then coming across something that has rpoduct like good qualities: Hey this is needed by many who are interested in these subjects, and I have the teachings skills for it too, so what about if I would make a blog post about it. And then if the flow of doing carries you too far, coming to think: Hey these are not exactly what is needed but those aree what people need, I will do those and drop these personal ones away.

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May 4th 2018
My texts might have had very many readers, since the thinking course is in English and useful for school & education at large. And the future of computers interests also very many. That would mean some part of the whole human kind as the size class of how many readers to all of my texts together, if those texts are available and objectively communicated about.

Arranging home nicely

When I was younger at the capital district, I felt that my own view of what is a nice spirit in a home or in clothes drowned under all kinds of practical details. Later in Savonlinna the things available have been more in my taste, but on the other hand I have noticed that at the capital district the way of trying, it's technique was wrong. Instead of tidying small detail one should have attention in the spirit that one aims at having in the room, if how the room would be nice. Drown in that spirit, do things that fit well together with that, see that view richer and as more dominant. Then place few things, or even more if it goes well, according to that spirit, for example some area of the room, or bring clothes of the beginning season's weathers, things needed in it or the like, for one to have some spirit, some element which creates pleasant being and well working spaces. Where it does not work out so well, leave things undone this time, at most taike away some thing with nasty spirit, and leave rest later, to be done according to other factors which create pleasant life to those things which are not well taken care of by for example the window with it's view, plants on the window, curains, things there, light, shadow by it or the like. If some place has poor spirit, you can search for something to replace it with, for example some nice thing, nice hobby tool, something styly found from second hand or from others or from elsewhere ideas of what would be pleasant, charming etc. So from several pieces is the pleasantness of a room formed across time and changng from season to season. 

 For one to understand a person one needs to take into account social perceptions, things done etc. Looked at more widely, different things done, equipment etc need eacvh their own space to function well, and to understand the whole thing one needs to look at the whole room etc. Likewise the different parts of the room have their own good sides and actions suited to them and a good way of using the space there, their own spirit and the characyteristics of that part of the room, it's spirit, life there, in other words pleasantness, liveliness, well working, good moments and successful things done.

10.9.2016   I noticed also that when my window one can at some places see green outdoors ("Oh, there are trees here") and right next to it the wall of an apartment house ("yak, it was only like this"), I noticed that wehn I put the washed clothes drying thing's usual place so that my ordinary road of passing by it goes with beautiful vies and not at all with ugly views, it at once became more pleasant and charming.

10.2.2018   Here views from my window, all from the same window:

25.9.2016    Here the way of arranging the room should not be stiff or acted, at all like a theater scene, at least if one spends a lot of time in the room, since such does not make one feel well, one does not get that rest and refreshment that one needs from home. So how, if from here is a magnifient view but from some other place not, how should one choose places to sit and walk along? Reaching for looks easily falls into the trap of making a theater scene like arrangement to the room, so it isn' t agood thing to hang on, even though it can be an additional charm. Instead "here is nice to wander when there is the view outdoors, so I will place the walking route roughly here and sitting place there where it is good to sit and look out of the window" works well and one makes at the same time the choices according to the view. Generally "nice" is a good rule, since it takes many things into account and varies from situation to another.

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27.9.2016   If there are as many rooms (not including kitchen) as there are people living in teh apartment (maybe half a room for kids) it brings a luxory like feeling instead of the melancholy of too many rooms, a little bit like the trees may bring greenery and magnifient looks.

21.11.2016   Tuotteen tekijän näkökulma auttaa onnistumaan ostoksissa,   http://paratiisiteoria.blogspot.fi/2016/11/ostoksissa-onnistumisesta.html

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11.10.2016   From my blog http://todreamjob.blogspot.fi
"10. Arrange your home under the rule of your most loved dreams, things connecting to biggest dreams on main places, other things where ever and the nastiest throw away. This way you get your phere of life immediately according to your biggest dreams, and not just according to the demands of living the veryday life, so you get those things to central role in your life which you really want to such position."

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13.11.2016 Savonlinnan seudun sanomalehdestä Itä-Savosta, jota luen, oppii mm mökkeilymäisestä sisustamisesta myös kaupunkiin, saa ideoita, touchia, tyyliä ja oppii taiteista.

The part of the town you live in matters: near work or in free time sphere, in other words do you get rest. Is there a garden, green, landscapes, life, in other words do you get healthy stimuli. Do you like the people there and the area's style. Does it give to you good possibilities for life, for example jogging route, shops, hobbies, easy travel, parks, shores etc. Which professions are such that you want to live in the middle of such professions. All do not like the same, so best may be among the cheapest.

Näyttävyydestä
 http://tunteetjatekemisentapa.blogspot.fi/2015/01/kiva-siivousjalki-nain.html
http://pikakoulu.blogspot.fi/2013/11/hahmotustavoista.html ja koko blogin ajattelunäkemys
http://ohjeitabloggaamiseen.blogspot.fi/2014/07/uusi-media-tarvitsee-uuden-kayttotavan.html
http://lukevatkoirat.blogspot.fi/2016/11/kullanvarinen-turkki.html
http://tunteetjatekemisentapa.blogspot.fi/2016/07/suurista-tunteista.html
http://opisuomalaisuus.blogspot.fi/2014/03/terveet-elamantavat.html

Näyttävyys ei saisi mennä lavastamiseksi tai siitä katoaa idea ja hyödyllisyys ja se alkaa häiritä toimivuutta ja sosiaalista silmää.
("34. Asiat, joita toiset arvostavat suurina ihanteina ja ylimmän taidon piirteinä, kuten taide ja uskonto, mutteivät tunne saavansa niihin kylliksi tilaisuutta, ja joita toiset niihin tilaisuuden saaneet eivät niin arvosta ja saattavat laiminlyödä tai koko touhu mennä pupuksi, niin nuo asiat ovat yleensä sellaisia, että ne vaativat, että kaikki tavallisten taitojen perusasiat on huolehdittu hyvin hyvällä laadulla ja ettei mitään tavallisten taitojen osia ole laiminlyöty. Silloin ne ovat ylivertaisen taidon rakennusaineita ja tavallisia taitoja laiminlyövien käsissä joko jotain kummaa kautta ihme kyllä jotenkin toimivia tai puppua vain. Tällaiset taidon ylemmät asteet eivät toimi yksinään vaan vain muuten kunnollisen elämän kokonaisuuden osina, tai siis jokin puoli niistä toimii, jos sen kerran juuri huolehtii, mutta kokonaisuus lässähtää jotenkin, kun muut puolet puuttuvat."
"55. Jos ihminen muuttaa kulttuuriin, joka on niin erilainen hänen alkuperäisestä kulttuuristaan, ettei hän oikein pysy kärryillä, mikä meni mitenkin, niin häneltä puuttuvat tavanomaisen elämän tavanomaiset mielekkyydet, jotka kaikki tuossa uudessa kulttuurissa hallitsevat kuin vettä vaan. Hän ei siis elä maisemassa sen paremmin elinympäristönsä kuin uuden kulttuurin maailmankuvan ja käytäntöjenkään osalta, vaan häneltä puuttuu tolkku ja vastuuntunto, koko todellisuuskäsitys asiantiloineen ja järjenjuoksuineen. Silloin tekemisten juoni on ulkoisen hahmon matkimisen ja vanhan kulttuurin tuttujen sirpaleiden varassa, joita ei ehkä ole montaa mutta jotka voivat hämätä esim. keskusteluissa luulemaan muualta muuttanutta osaavammaksi kuin onkaan, sillä jollei keskustelun maailmankuvaa ymmärrä ja jaksa seurata, niin käytökseltä puuttu jatkuvuus: se ei jää tuon maailmankuvan mukaiseksi, vaikka sosiaalinen saattaa olla. Erityisen hankalaa on, jos esim. koko huomionkäytön tyyppi puuttuu kuten tropiikin jatkuvasta helteestä muuttaneella kenties tunnelmatajuinen tarkka jatkuva näköhahmotus maisemasta, jossa on, ja sen elämästä konteksteineen ja mielekkyyksineen."
http://pikakoulu.blogspot.fi/2013/07/vaarinkasityksia-ajattelukyvysta.html)

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3.3.2017 

An apoartment house home can be of many different kind inside. Like if you see trees from the window, you can choose green or park like or town like view by choosing where the areas you spend time and walk along are mainly compared to the views from the windows, you can for example take a theme from a fascinating book or from some fascinating thing in mind to cultivate in how you arrange your home. Likewise you can indoors, for example with the help of second hand things, take a theme which can give a different spirit for the room: there are clothes, green plants, pictures, soft, work oriented, rough, decorations, summer cottage life, handiworks, music, the four seasons, pleasant living, practical things, books, computer pets, etc other themes that you are interested in. And by cultivating certain themes, by keeping themin sight, at good places, handy and with good spirit, you get a home with such spirit. But at the same time you need to be in the same way have a successfull pleasant view about the area you live in: this is a peaceful place between houses, green suburb or nice old times street view, area for families with samll kids, or the like.

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11.3.2017  I went to look at curtains, which would not be of so much autumn spirit, but now on spring winter the curtains in the shop seemed to be in a winter theme, as if there were for people who identify themselves with winter time, kind of turned away from life in the action. So it seemed to matter to buy curtains just that seasons which type of characters and attitudes to life one can bear endlessly.

I guess that many neighbours recognize curtains in the window, so that their style brings you a place to live in. I for example have curtains of the type of an elderly person, even though I am 45, which is in a way fine and on the other hand too much staying at home and social with just the elderly.

The street viewsof town, gardens and summer cottages seem each have their own type of curtains: which view compares positively with the curtains that you look at and what kind of impression it gives of the charm of the environment and of what you can suppose to find when you go out. 

28.4.2017   Esineiden ja huonekalujen paikan valitsemisesta. 

Ensin olisi katsottava, ettei esine ole käytännössä tiellä, ainakaan muuten kuin harvoin niillä paikoilla, joille sitä harkitaan. Sitten osattava käyttää sitä ja pohdittava paikat niin, että ne olisivat käteviä. 

Sitten valittava paikka kotoisuuden, viihtyisyyden, tunnelmallisuuden yms perusteella hyvä, niin kuin tunne sanoo, että hyvä on.

12.7.2017  I looked at curtains again but it was surprisingly difficult to choose them. Especially transparent curtains can be used mostly in the summer time when there aren't lights indoors and there is outdoors  green and beautiful. There seemed to be curtains for people who prefer the spirit certain season of the year  and different versions of the same season, for example Midsummer (=lightest time) and half way between summer - usually in teh style of the late summer time is the observation that soon will cold water be poured upon you /schools start or the like. So I brought thick middle of the summer stryle curtains. There were curtains for different purposes, with different attitudes to life, with different views about living at home, living environment, for different ages, for different level of wisdom of life, different types of people, different ways of being social, type of position and different ways of being active, and so they brought different types of quality of life, as if flows to live in. There were also curtains for people with different values, which is why one ought to pay attention to colour symbolics (also as interpreted by others) and the main attractions of the town they were brought from. From the names of the curtains one seemed to learn something of what the curtains were like in style. The flower curtains, at least not all of them, did not seem to be an as good option for women as one would have supposed, but instead many men classify them as "whatever curtains", and so one does not so automartically ger good life from them.

21.7.2017    It so happened that I brought from an internet shop http://www.eurokangas.fi curtain fabric from a sale 5 euros per meter, and it wasn't transparent like fabrics in Savonlinna (the picture just has colours wrong). But in fact IU brought also other curtain fabric for one curtain, but it didn't fit so well, was too thick and of a different style. (The pictures in the curtains were quite much like those on the net pages but not exactly the same, but fabrics are made in smaller sets I guess.) This on the other hand was summer like flower fabric and the colours were what there was for sale in flower fabrics.

 I thought that a curtain will in use hang in the style that it is in the beginning and later according to habits used. So as I thought it nicer so, I left it to large waves and not evenly but more like paintings (fine paintings and subjects of paintings in mind while handling the curtain, so that some of that style is left on the curtain, but paintings are usually from a too unmoving way of life and so one cannot use them as a theme usually if one wants to be happy) to begin with, so that I get more room for my own skill level in that.

I shortened the curtain according to it's pictures to be good for me, and on the other hand so that it is warm in the winter time when curtain does not cover the heater but instead lets warm air flow from top of it to the room, and on the other hand a pleasant figure and somehow fitting to what i am like.  In that one must rememeber to leave room for the folds nex to the line sewn. So I first ironed the lower edge to a fold (and then to the upper edge), then cut it to a nice width, sew with a sewing machine criss cross the edge  and then sew the fold near the edge by the narrowest criss cross line, for to get a more lively impression than sewing straiught, and for the lower edge to not to be too thick to hang as round waves. Then I for safety's sake measured again the place of the upper edge fold, I had ironed it already (upper fold of even width) and so I cut the fold to a suitable width and sew it to the thickness of three fabrics, did it with a straight sewing line for it to hang evenly, be strong enough to hang from and tidy. 

The height of the curtain I measured first with the curtain fabric hang to see how it curves down and how the window shelf(?) and the green plants on the window affect it, what would be suitable height (the curtain fabric under it = folds on top and bottom + pieces to be cut away) and got a chance to ponder how the fuígure would be nice.

I have usually hang curtains with 9 pieces, since it is handy so, but I don't know whether it is good other wise at all. So first from the sides, the middle, then half way the other half and each part to half, and then the same on the other half. At least it is even. 

Koetan laatia tähän jonkin ohjeen kuvien laittamisesta seinälle. Yleensä on muutamia kivoja kuvia, jotka voisi laittaa seinälle, ja sitten on paikkoja, jotka kaipaavat jotakin seinälle. Paikalla on jokin teema, esim. harrastus tai sänky, ja sillä on sijansa joko usein, hetkittäin jatkuvasti tai ohimennen tai ei juuri koskaan katsottuna. Tilan laajuus ja oma silmä vaativat yleensä isoa tai pientä kuvaa tai joukkoa kuvia. Jotkut vieraat tai perheenjäsenet yhdistävät kuvat yleensä tuohon paikkaan liittyvään aiheeseen, joten pitää varoa, etteivät ne silloin mene ihan pieleen tai tule liian isoa efektiä. Paikalla on rytminsä ja värisävynsä, ja niin kuvan voi sijoittaa paikkaan niin, että se täydentää kokonaisuuden tietyntyyppiseksi tilaksi yleisvaikutelmaltaan ja viihtyisyydeltään: upotaan haluuttuun tunnelmaan, esim. sen kannalta hyvänä hetkenä, ja sijoitetaan kuva silloin kivalta vaikuttavaan paikkaan tunnelman rikkoutumatta, muuttamatta tunnelmaa näpertämisen, arvioimisen tms tunnelmaksi. Samoin kuvan tummuus voi luoda kontrasteja tai laimentaa toisia soinnuttaen. Kuva voi myös luoda rakennetta asuntoon, joko soinnuttaa erityyppiset tilat saman elämäntavan osiksi tai luoda eroja eri käyttötarkoitusten välille, tai esim. tasapainottaa viereisestä huoneesta löytyvää dominanttia teemaa jatkamalla jotakin siihen vertautuvaa toisen huoneen näkymään, esim. luontoaiheisesta maalauksesta katse siirtyy toisen huoneen koristeheiniin. Nykyaikana omista valokuvista saa helposti kuvia seinälle netistä tilaamalla, Ifolorilla olikohan 10 senttiä/kpl + posti muistaakseni 3-4e kerralla, mutta isot kuvat maksavat enemmän.

24.10.2017   I once looked at a picture of a wooden Aino house http://kokonaiskuvat.blogspot.fi/2017/03/linkkeja-ymparistorakentamisen-tueksi.html , and afterwards I was left pondering that it is fascinating looking but is it poor to live in.  To buying an apartment and to renting it Iguess that one ought to apply the same as to other things to buy http://kokonaiskuvat.blogspot.fi/2016/11/suhteesta-tavaroihin.html , in other wordsone should search for such that gives possibilities for life for your type of person, for example your dreams about way of living. Often that means that one must search for a town or village that offers just such as the main flow of it's culture.

Mutta mites sitten, jos on kiva asunto, niin miten sen sisustaa, jotta se on kiva ja mukava asua, hyvä elää? Tarvitsisi noiden asunnon tyylin, tilantunnun, ikkunanäkymien, sijainnin yms tarjoamien hyvien puolien tyyppisiä asioita elämänuomia etsiä myös muista asioista, joista sitten voi niitä rakentaa, tarjota niitä itselleen japerheelleen. Ja sama juttu muiden kivojen elämänuomien kanssa: etsiä asioita, tavaroita jne, jotak sellaisia tarjoavat, ja sisustaa niillä, paikaten tavallisilla, kulttuurin mukaisilla, asunnon ja asuinpaikan & -seudun henkeen sopivilla muilla huonekaluilla, tavaroilla, matoilla yms kokonaisuuden kyllin tavalliseksi, hyväksyttäväksi. Yleensä ei kai kannata ostaa kaikkea kerralla, jollei satu silmään tosi hyviä tarjouksia. Monia tavaroita ja huonekaluja myydään erilaiusia eri vuodenaikoina ja esim. lehtien putoamisen aikaan tehdyt ostokset usein epäonnistuvat, samoin kai juuri ennen kuin lähes kaikki lumi on sulanut. Kesä-, talvi- syksy', joulu. jne tarjoavat erilaisia löytöjä, joten jos on paikkakunnalla pidempään, niin voi ostaa ajan myötä tarvitsemansa halvemmalla ja juuri sellaisen, joka vaikuttaa hyvältä valinnalta. Kodin Kuvalehti ym naistenlehdet kai opettavat sisustamista, samoin vo paikallislehdestä ja paikallisista mainoksista oppia paikkakunnan hyvää meininkiä ja sen tyyliä.

9.2.2018   Jos jokin esine tai seutu asettuu hienosti, on hienon tunnelmainen, niin se kai johtuu siitä, että on harrastunut siitä aihepiiristä, kun sitä käsittelee, on siihen uppoutunut, sen tenhoon, meininkiin, antaa sille tilaa eikä kuluta sitä loppuun, ei ole muissa aatoksissa työstä stressaantuneena. Myös, jos on uppoutunut johonkin muuhun kiehtovaan, niin jälki on kiva. Maalaamista harrastaessa oppii näyttävyyttä ja tilan antamista kiehtoville aiheille, mutta tunnelma kokemuksena menee silloin huonommaksi, sillä maalaus on vain kuva, usein jotenkin loppuunkuluttavan tyyppisesto tehty ja liian toimetonta sisällyksetöntä elämää. Lopun aikaa ei sitten siirtele esineitä niin herkästi, jos meininki tai mieliala on huono. Ja siivoaa sitten hyvällä a ok mielellä, laittaa kivaksi. 

25.3.2018   If you search for magnifient looks yet good to live in, you ought to have some complex magnifient looking thing that fascinates you, like for example a red curved pine branch from the window. And then you should have a good fascination way of living, view to life or the like that finds such magnifient looking things uplifting. And then just arrange some part of the room with those as a theme (see the first advice of this blog post).

My Finnish language blog about succeeding in buying things with low budget 

(Ostoksissa onnistumisesta - säästäväisen asiakkaan näkökulma http://asiakkaanavain.blogspot.fi : ) 

two pieces of which I have translated to Engliesh:

http://learntalents.blogspot.fi/2018/01/nicer-way-to-pay-bills.html

 and the second quotation on the page http://picturesfrommyhome.blogspot.fi/2018/02/other-links-to-my-texts.html

25.4.2018   Pictures of the garden I used to have, and links (June 20, 2015: 1., 3. and 4.) to the garden magazine I read then and to the newspaper and women's magazine that I have read during the last few years. http://savonlinnasta.blogspot.fi/

Pictures from the countryside town Savonlinna

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Pictures from Savonlinna town: The town center is full of tourists and often at other places too there are travellers, often foreigners I think. Many foreigners I guess come to Savonlinna to see if this unusual culture is the right for them.

 some of the town center district, near the Olavinlinna castle

 Nätki suburb, part of kinderkarten yard here near by

The Olavinlinna castle

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Climate:

In my text about the seasons, the pictures are from the Nätki suburb

 http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html  .  

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Savonlinna info:

Savonlinna travel http://visitsavonlinna.fi/en/

Pictures of summer cottages etc in Savonlinna area, an internet search 

http://www.google.fi/search?q=Savonlinna+home+pictures

(If you find a place based on it's main professions and most famous happenings, it is likely that you find lots of room for those things there in your life. Like in Savonlinna area the ones building summer cottages etc are highly skilled and shops offer Savonlinna style comfortable furniture and other things needed at home. On the other hand the nature and the basic type of houses is typical to the same climate zone as Finland and maybe also somewhat more southern areas.) 

The same kind of charm is in local apartments for sale or for rent, but those are mostly in apartment houses. Often just about all or many  of the apartments on some town or district have the same kind of charm which reflects the good sides of the culture there or just it's fascination (with some practical problems left). I would recommend you to make such searches for different charming areas in your own country, to see that it does matter in which village or town you choose to live in. 

Local newspaper Itä-Savo of Savonlinna area, in Finnish of course, an example of an old paper in the internet: http://magg.io/td6cnB/1

Wikipedia's Savonlinna info  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savonlinna

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Tourist attractions:

Finland travel 

http://www.visitfinland.com/

Europe travel, an internet search  

http://www.google.com/search?q=Europe+travel

World travel destinations, an internet search

http://www.google.fi/search?q=world+travel+destinations

Savonlinna is a tourist town, largely because of Savonlinna Opera Festival every summer around July but also because of it's unique culture and the large number of summer cottages in the district. Savonlinna gets lots of influence from major good quality tourist resorts around the world, so that if you find Savonlinna interesting, maybe you would like to take a look at the major tourist attractions of the world and their charm.

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Reasons for local characteristics:

Distance calculator between towns of the world  http://distancecalculator.globefeed.com/World_Distance_Result.asp?fromplace=Savonlinna%2C%20Finland&toplace=Paris%2C%20France&dt1=ChIJpR33V3hQmkYRTrxnzUidFa0&dt2=ChIJD7fiBh9u5kcRYJSMaMOCCwQ       

Finnish climate http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/climate

In Savonlinna district foreigners who like something but maybe not just Savonlinna or Finland, maybe like warm with food, opera & glamour of high skill and feelings, free time and leisurely ways yet lot to learn in a typical visit of less than a day. 

Many who like Finland,like here the Finnish nature and the seasons and Finnsh civilized ways & Finnish wisdom even though there are much more criminals in Savonlinna district and Savo (brown, red, (& black)) counties than in Finland (blue, white, (& green, & red spots)) at large, it is said.

Also some from warmer countries maybe like that in Savonlinna the social distance between persons is somewhat personally polite, while in Finland at large it is the distance of civilized education which is a much better distance for winter outdoor skills of skin staying warm.

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Savonlinna is a countryside town, a quite small place suurrounded by forests, fields and lakes. But because of the summer time opera festival (and former famous summer time art exhibition near by) and because of the medieval castle in the center of the town, it is as a tourist destination in a quite big class, quite easy to take a look at at the same time on computer as the famous tourist destinations of the world.