Travelling Thoughts

It is 1st of April, and we all thought spring was here. How quickly were we reminded that we do not get to decide when spring arrives.

For Ramadan each and every year one of the most difficult thing to cut down is coffee. Each and every year I try to keep the consumption of caffeine down after Ramadan – as quitting it causes headaches and tiredness, but each and every year I face the same situation,…

Human is not meant to be separate from the Creation, as some sort of “Prince of the Earth”, but a part of it. We have a tendency to try to exploit and destroy, even though we should try to conserve and create.

Signs come in all shapes and sizes. It is just how and if we allow ourselves to see them for what they are.

Inheritance can be tangible or intangible. For me, as a Finnish man, the summer evenings by lakes, which reflect the blueness of the sky above, with the sounds of nature all around… that is the inheritance from my background that I cherish until the last day.

This is my family from my mother’s side. This is also significant as my great-grandfather was born 140 years ago. Also, my grandmother, who is on the lower right-hand corner of this photo, was an Evacuee from the Karelian peninsula to “mainland” Finland during the Second World War. Those areas…

When I gaze to the horizon and see the sun set behind the majestic mountains, and the Moon in the darkening sky, I often wonder about the generations before who have seen the same spectacle. Were they as much in awe as I am?