I have written about the skills for a Christmas gnome like life, on a very general level, using words like "work" or "school", "free time", "dream job", "chores that one likes", etc. So if one understands the text, there mostly isn't anything personal or atmospheric in the text itself. It is just objective thoughts and theoretical pieces of one's picture of the world. But when one thinks of those kinds of things in one's own life and maybe in the lives of the people that one knows, those are typically strongly experienced things that vary a lot from one individual to another, and propably much more between people of different climates, cultures, towns, etc. So if there is something well working or touching feelings in what you have read in my texts, that is usually your own view and not from my experience. So it ought not come as feedback. It is meant to help you in yourlife, andmy text was just on a general level suited to writing to a global audience of people of different ages etc.
19 May, 2024
18 May, 2024
Summer harmonies
Mostly just links to my old texts plus quotations, but might be useful for the summer or for the tropics, see https://summerharmonies.blogspot.com
17 May, 2024
My book series "Find / Create The Land Of Christmas"
If you are in a hurry, start from LearnTalents.BlogSpot.com/2018/09 .
You can read the back cover texts at a link from LearnTalents.BlogSpot.com , and from there you can also buy an ebook which ought to be instantly readable.
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See LearnTalents.BlogSpot.com or www.amazon.com/author/khtervola
1. Skills of Christmas gnomes
2. Skills of Christmas gnomes, continued
3. Skills of Christmas gnomes, book 3.
4. Skills of Christmas gnomes 4. Short index
5. Skills of Christmas gnomes
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20. Christmas calendar with the theme Rationality of feelings
21. The best fact language is like music
22. A Sorcerer, Book 3.: some big dove's wish
23. A few famous poems of Eino Leino
24. A Sorcerer, Book 2.: Skills for Harmony
25. Work and feelings
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See the books on the above links or as free versions at MiracleLikeNature.BlogSpot.com , or read from the beginning in the original blog form, see LearnTalents.BlogSpot.com/2018/09 .
15 May, 2024
Five years of school?
Please read my text https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2024/02/how-many-years-of-school.html
How to get a better idea of the situation? One ought to ask people who have own exoerience of school. Is there any clear idea of what kind of school was good for life, and what on the other hand was no longer motivating or folliwed, or was opposed. Tens of years ago in my school in Helsinki, it seemed to be so that the five first years of school were ok, but 6th grade and after that even teachers said as their estimate that school did not work like was the idea in having a school, and that something ought to be done to correct the school to much better, or maybe re-estimate how many years of school and find other alternatives, for example studies to a profession that one likes. If many teachers and adults share the same observations, it is easier to improve school.
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I cooy the text here:
"How many years of school
(19.2.2024 Mysocial space to live in does not carry this subject, it just interests others with more social inclination. I ought to stop writing but feel forced to it. The reason seems to me having figured out easy ways to study kind of school taught things. But you should read my numerous earlier texts and not demand anything more from me.)
When I was in school as a child and a teen, the first class was quite interesting and motivating since there were many new things for one's picture of the world and in the first autumn term I learned to read. The second class wasn't so much new things, so it wasn't as motivated and I wondered why there was school without so much new things. The third class got some higher goals from the number 3 being associated with religious wisdom, so it was quite ok and at least at some parts motivating. But on the fourth grade boys wanted engineering lije technical approach a lot and still more and more and it was much too elementary and boring so, without enough wisdom, so I thought such a serious drawback. The fifth year was thought by teachers to be the last thst makes sense to study if one has an ok head and seeks to behave wisely. So that would have been the natyral lenght of such a school. Then still the direction was toward following school taught things, which was the only motivation gor havkng a school.
But in the sixth grade pupils were no longer interested. They started to be teens and school become an engibeering style rigid form in contradiction with thr pupils' own wusdom of life and their possibilitues of choosing their orofessilnal inclinatiln and future lufe as adults. And so as years passed the school become more and mire narrow, with a feeli g of liw quality, and it no longer was wusdom for lufe.
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14 May, 2024
Of enthusiasm, tradition, individuality, wisdom of life guiding speedy action well, etc
The video of Cher? about tge motger and girls dancing in the kitchen brings to my mind my youth, summer time fracturelessness, the enthusiasm of having nice hobbies, the liked valuable variatilns of tradition, the individual wisdom of lufe of each guiding their lives and showing their possible hobbies, future professions etc and being of a beneficial effect to the luving environment and to tge wude world to give fair room to such, and how the healthy ways of luving and folliwing civiliced values make life feel good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7OIn2KFDWjM
See my books at MiracleLikeNature.BlogSpot.com
From the chapter about Christmas preparations in my book series Skills of Christmas gnomes :
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T2. For most tyrning toward Christmas begins in November when the weathers and darkness make one wish for something softening and comforting and for warm clothes, and when one for the first time hears Christmas songs played in the radio or in shops.
T3. I guess that making things nice for Christmas is largely that thibgs and places would be clean and dry, but on a leisurely way, like one who does not always do such chores finds the right nice tune and drowns into making home and clothes nice.
T4. Often things go nicer if one does not do them like a professional, but instead like a quite beginner who in a moment of inspiration manages to make professional quality.
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"An extremely handsome man"
I thought I had stopped writing, but I somehow felt like explaining the social sides of Lea Laven's song "Ei oo, ei tuu" which I felt boys reacted to very badly when I was a child. And something about handsome men too.
1. Lied and acted good will isn't the same as wisdom of life which is good for the society too.
2. If a girl or a woman has different dream job, values, liked places to live in, liked cultures etc than one's parents and the town one lives in, those who are at the right dire tion look handsome but are often of a wrong type for oneself, typically changing from the charming areas of lufe toward the professilns etc that lne wants to distance oneself from. It would help a lot if one could choose a district to live in which fascinates oneself and a nice job.
3. "An extremely handsome man" in a woman's gesture language is usually the woman's own view of one's manly skills, but those are like a sprinter's, a spark of short time interest, instead if the work like exhausted typical to many men. It would be good to choose a spouce with whom one gets well along, a social relation with whom it is good to live, things in life work out well, one is happy in a natural way, both enjoy such life, it is good for skills, wisdom of life, it offers one space to live in, a good living environment, so lne naturally likes it and tends to smile, and that is why it is said that one ought tp choose a beautigul or handsome one, it means one for whom it feels good to live with ypu. It often means someone with similar likings abd wisdom of life but often of a dufferent age or otherwise with different strenghts, instead of getting stuck to forced rigid ways.
4. Finding "an extremely handsome man" connects often with a phenomenom of which Asian philosophy has the saying "When the student is ready, a teacher appears" of which I wrote some piece of advice in my long text about the Skills of Christmas gnomes learntalents.blogspot.com . I mean when a person has own skills and wisdom of life and longs for some element to one's life, some area of life added, which sparks and lifts lne high especially in the beginning, maybe lifts high also the effect of the new human relatilnships there, but it works only based on one's own wisdom of life, and not if others force one to lean on the others in questilns of wisdom of life etc, instead of relying on one's own wusdom of life.
Obs. With whom lne wants to live closely together or copy from is typically a personal matter, but in any case one must leave others room to live in, also for childhood family members as they grow up. Room to live in is a question concerning life in the society. It isn't place for childhood competition or social matters.
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A Christmas song "I am not seeking for power or glory" plus some words about power
I added my old video to the middle of this quotation. It is a song from the point of view of thinking large scale profound questions of wisdom of life, and it so helps to create the Christmas time. It is just a beautiful song, not an opinion in a conversation. And it does not agree to give power etc to those who break against such beautiful values.
" D30. 3rd of September 2020 There is a much liked old Finnish Christmas song called En etsi valtaa loistoa, "I am not seeking for power or glory" that tells of the value of things themselves and of wisdom of life instead of grasping only tool like things.
"I am not seeking for power or glory
I am not seeking for power or glory,
I am not searching gold either.
I beg for heaven's light
and peace upon the Earth.
It brings Christmas which brings happiness
and lifts spirit up to god.
Not power nor glory
but instead peace upon the earth.
Allow me a peaceful hut
and children's Christmas tree.
The light of god's words
in which my soul gets lighter.
Bring to homes, also to small ones
now Christmas celebration sweet.
Light of god's word
and some nobleness of mind.
To the poor and to the rich too
comes Christmas lovely.
To the darkness of the world
bring heaven's light.
I want you, I wait for you
you master of earth and heaven.
To the poor and to the rich
bring your sweet Christmas!"
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GAIN FAIR POSITION PER TYPE OF DEED, ETC
From my text about women's position, see the link in tge advertisement page of The Christmas Gnones Internet Institute https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2023/01/christmas-gnome-internet-institute.html
"Basics of position
" W7. Often one gets along and gets solid position when one respects the values of the area of life at hand and tries to learn it's skills in a good quality way and cultivate them well in ways that respect that area's values and motivation and what livibg in a society needs for the society to be good to live in, now and in the future.
W8. What people get position from and how they get treated, is from what they do from momentvto moment, which are the values followed in that, which level of skills in each thing done or thought of, and what is the way of being social, and is it fair, honest, responsible, etc.
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Learning skills which give a higher position
W11. "If you want a better position, the rule "Live and let others live!" F60. in the Christmas gnome text, followed all the time in everything, with commln sense and lots of wisdom of life, tends to give so lots of freedom as long as one follows the rule with wisdom. It also tends to give a much higher position to decide about things since things usually run smoothly with such wisdom.
If you need extra skills to gain position to influence things, try E11. Easy quick school for animals, M8. Like a hero of old times, and N97. Emperor's power. "
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N97. My first name Kaisa has the association "keisari"= emperor. What i have learned from it, is that an emperor's power isn't for a certain person or position but instead for a certain type of deeds, so in practice for many different kinds of persons and for them per deed and not continually. The person should be responsible, wise and skilled enough, work fairly for the good of the country and of the world.
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From https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2023/01/womens-position-like-that-of-others.html where there are also other texts on the subject.
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A quotation from https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2023/12/about-publicity.html
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LEARN SKILLS AND TALENTS
I copy the advices in learning skills and talents here too.
F60. Oh, how is gnome like life possible socially, how is it possible to get along and to have room for one's own life, for one's own likings? I guess that the answer is the traditional Finnish rule "Live and let others live!". It is essential, so I copy it here:
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World's best problem solving method (Important to learn all over the world)
The ruleis something like: One is allowed to be selfish in ways positive for happy life but not to disturb the lives of others - except fairly to prevent them from disturbing others unfairly.
I do not know how all-European this traditional Finnish speaking Finnish (saying/)behaviour rule referred by the non-literal words "Live and let others Live!" but it is surely worth copying! It gives a maximal amount of freedom of everyone, completely according to their own likings, at the same time as it gives perfect moral for purely selfish individuals concerned mainly about their own life but who have a holistic rational view of the world and of the
society's workings.
The rule "Live and let other Live!" means that you can yourself live as freely as you allow others to live in the society - that means the others who follow the rule "Live and let others Live!". If you to some extend disturb people who follow the saying, you own room to affect things and to live in is shrunk on that respect, preventing the harm and making you think that you might want more room and so be motivated to living in harmony. That means that evil is not allowed to affect lives (of anybody else than the evil one oneself) but nice moral things are allowed to affect fully and supported in order to get better life for all! But one does not need to accept some influence because someone else says it is nice, instead there is the need to be moral and the freedom tofollow one's own likings.
It is a good rule. Maybe You have it already! Please learn to use it for happy life and a prosperous society, if it is not so widely known...
About the rule in all social relationships, please read http://yksinaisille.blogspot.fi/2012/03/build-perfect-relationship.html
Observe that this rule is roughly "Room for happy life!" and is akin to justice and caring the world to such that it is good to live in happily. It is not saying that one should not kill anybody. It means that if fair play and the happiness in the society or in the wide world so demands, you are supposed to prevent evil ones (and utterly stupid ones) from harming others unfairly, also if it means war, killing or the like, but of course one must see the situation as a whole, the good and bad sides of each tactic and choose with wisdom.
There is this same rule without any exception in all relationships, including mother-child-relationships, dating (Try for example in competitors in love, their kids and other responsibilities), friendship, hate, not caring attitude etc. Largely other rules are not needed, except lots of common sense, healthy spirit and a good understanding and at least some good will toward all.
An important application of this rule are the relationships between countries and between groups which may compete fiercely. It is also a good rule to build the society upon.
It often happens with this rule that the problems disappear as if they had vanished to the thin air.
Typically some woman (a wise one) or some nice man says "Go and enjoy yourself. Do not be bothered by them. You do not need to disturb them if you go to some other place or to some other people." and so the person in conflict does so and finds so room for him/her to live his/her own life without conflict with the others.
The goal is something like "We live our lives and let them live theirs." But the other side of the rule is how to get it to apply, how to force it upon people who do not follow it. And that is if they break against justice disturbing the lives of others unfairly, their own room to live in is shrunk similarly and they are prevented from harming others unfairly. But where they live ok, they can fairly keep their space to live in. Typically in this the rest of the society caring about that people would follow the rule, is important. Also some wisdom of life makes this work better than too little understanding about quality of life, social relationships and the workings of the society.
If this rule isn't familiar to you and you don't know how to take it into use or even if you want to use it or not, please try it out in your mind: figure out what it is like in each situation and how following it would affect things. It is a very useful rule, somaybe you like it too, it is quite easy when you have first learned it in each type of situation.
If you in some occasion don't feel like yur feelings coming along in letting others have so much room and preferably happiness too, you have propably not applied the rule enough to yourself: so be more selfcentered, think about what your own life need in a situation like this and see if you can arrange freedom and happiness for both yourself and for others, for yourself you need to take care of it and for others just leave room for them and they themselves with their friends arrange for themselves without feeling it being a burden of some kind.
This rule works also if there are lots of murders http://healthilymoral.blogspot.fi/2016/10/live-and-let-others-live-also-if-there.html
In care professions, like for example medicine, it is important to follow good enough understanding, good enough moral and be honest about what is a lie, a habit or an unsure supposion. But with wider consequencies taken fally into account this rule applies there too: the patients and others cared for should be allowed to decide fully about their need for care and about the decisions in their care: that is their life, their own influence to the world and those in care professions should not mess with it, giving excuses for crimes. It is especially important to let those live freely who are moral and so carry the burden of keeping the world in a good state, for example some parts of the society.
This rule works well for example in the negotiations between different groups. You do not need always say aloud that things are according to this rule. It is enough if your suggestions are such that when other groups check them, they find that those are ok for them, so they can easily agree to support them, and likewise for your own groups too. But on the long run it is good for people to learn the rule, so that their own suggestions are all right for others too.
Following this rule in decisions, courses taken, judgements etc makes police and justice system and government also easy to agree about, but you do not need to refer to this rule, but more likely explain things in terms of law, needs, objective thoughts, common sense, experience, fair play, carrying responsibility, freedom, etc and then when the other person checks whether it is ok for him/her, it is according to this rule and so easy to agree about, and kind of makes it easier to think of these kinds of things if one has good enough understanding, wisdom wisdom of life, healthy spirit, good will and responsibility about the coming generations etc.
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E11. 20th of September 2020 Maybe a gnome too could learn this way:
"Easy quick school for animals, especially pets and birds
Animals which associate closely with humans, especially pets, ofr example dogs, sometimes ask if there could be a school for animals too. I have written advices about learning common sense like objective thinking and about fitting into the society, so here is my version of a kind of school for animals:
1) Thinking: use a landscape like view that observes structures. Good practise for this is looking at familiar scenes and landscapes with trees and some life in them. Trees and nature make observation ability better and join the sense of sight topgether with the sense of atmospheres, which is also good for thinking. http://quickerlearning.blogspot.com
For teaching this to a dog that is interested in learning it, go outdoors to some peaceful enough place where there are trees but not overly amess. Do not strand face to face by your pet but instead side by sode so that it looks at the same landscape as you, and so you can look at it so that it sees it the same way and then you can walk to a bush, tree, street's side lawn etc like observed firstm, and that's it.
2) Fitting into the society: The advice "Live and let others live!" is good for this. Think of each person and each group sovereign as the trunk and branches of a tree in a park. It does not mess with the branches of other trees and those too leave it alone, to freely and happily live it's own life. Good will toward others is a good advice here. https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2012/10/live-and-let-others-live.html
Another piece of advice is for all to work for better life in a better living environment, like work, hobbies, friends, caring for the environment, making the society good to live in. https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2013/04/rationally-grounded-moral.html
3) Wisdom of life and healthy ways of living you can partly learn from how tree branmches curve topward light and what is their atmosphere, the mood it seems to refer to and the kind of life, and partly from sport and healthy kind of life on all areas of life.
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There are also some other things that have often come to my mind when thinking of a school for animals, especially for pets and birds, maybe for mice too.
4) About teaching an animal to read there is a video about reading Finnish language at https://villakoirabanjo.blogspot.com/2020/01/opeta-elaimesi-lukemaan-nain.html , but for it one must first understand spoken language, which often goes by associating with humans and paying attention to the situations and tones of voice, and later by remembering also the atmospheres of the spoken language. Finnish language is written like it is pronouced, but there are some differencies between literature's language and the words of spoken language.
5) The square looks of houses etc are a consequence of it being so easy to place two or more parts next to each other tightly and so that one can choose from nay options, what to place so. So one can build shelter from weathers and from dangers and use materials economically. Such houses also offer fiar chances for different types i´of individuals and a possibility for privacy. The square looks of houses are not good for intelligence and quality of life. For them it is good to look at trees outside the window. If life indoors feels tough, do not attach yourself to build things but instead only to the nature outside the window and to outdoors at large.
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M8. 1st of June 2022 I wonder could one be like a hero of old times but in these modern ages if one read kn part 2. the text About Kalevala B38., and in the beginning of this blog about how to learn talents and skills, and maybe the Easy quick school for animals E11., and if one would look at healthy natural ages old ways of living from the point of view of basic theoretical picture of the world like the sciences.
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About kalevala
"I bought Kalevala as a book to myself and read some of the beginning. In the competition singing of Väinämöinen and Joukahainen I was surprised to notice that Joukahainen did not lack skills so much, but instead Väinämöinen sang him to be things like the glow of the nature, to the marks of great skill in the nature.
"Hat from the head of the man he sang
to be an erect front edge of a cloud;
he sang mittens from his hands
to be leaves on the cover of pond's water,
from that misty blue
to be clouds in the sky,
from his belt a fascination of a new wife
to be stars scattered in the sky."
So I was left to ponder, if I as a girl thought when reading kalevala that that is what can happen with great skill: one loses position, propably via losing communication connection when one no longer speaks the language of men with more soldier like style. That I would take care to not to fall myself into that pitfall. But at the same time I thought that I could nearly reach that high, to that style in achievements. Now I think that it is like having met a bird: with it's song it makes forests beautifult o wander in, green, there is much soldier like wisdom in it's voice.
But so, how did I think I could reach so high skill and quality of life, like the reddish glow of the grassas in a forest etc. One would have a healthy way fo living or a healthy touch of one's own which would cure the way of life healthy again, to ages old. In every thing one would see the parts of healthy way of life which are as an idea in it, and so the deed when sees alike as others' deeds would be healthy on one's own and on others too, and so one could continue with healthy psirit from that, each one, whole society, and partly the rest of the world lear from it. ( World is of love (a mechanical model) http://healthilymoral.blogspot.fi/2011/08/world-is-of-love.html ) ( http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html )
One would have skills of one's own, one would have found one's own roads in life, it would be good to be an individual, personality, like oneself and strong, enjoying being an individual. And so human relationships would be in a way clishee like and in a way with a healthy spirit: one would have the strenght to have an opinion, do meaningful things, carried by the values of the society, things with healthy psirit carried by the actions and values of the society which have healthy spirit which would have strenght and content to life.
And one could get strenght, skills and integrite with opinions from being soldier like: to defend something, to invest in healthy courses, copying fro little singin birds and fromother strong wild animal persons (http://wildharmony.blogspot.fi/ ). One would be healthily spoirty, doing things at the practical level, with a good understanding achieved via adfmiring the nature and feeling via beautiful values, caring for the world, approaching life with feelings, motivated to the sphere of life and missions of the traditional way of life, with feelings and with a good understanding, reaching parts of the forefigures in nature of their skill level every now and then. (In Finnish http://tunteetjatekemisentapa.blogspot.fi/2016/07/suurista-tunteista.html )
My old video: if you can imagine a skill livelily, you can learn it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFN4gs35_A
https://talesfromforest.blogspot.com/
M9. From my blog todreamjob.blogspot.com
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1. To a Dream Job (Like this you find your dream job and learn talents!)
To a Dream Job
Written by Kaisa Hannele Tervola, Finland
Many of us have different strenghts than what your dream job would need. And the more we admire some professions, the higher demands we often set to ourselves to be allowed something so high. But our own strenghts reflect usually the dreams of our parents, to which we have already gotten introduced so much that we are thoroughly bored, and not what we feel that our own lives have been most lacking, what we most admire and which we would most enjoy our time, which we would most carefully take to our heart and take care of if it were our work. We cannot change to be copies of our parents, so better for us to travel to the unknown toward our own dreams!
Choosing a profession for oneself starts with finding the right way of living: what is your biggest dream, what would perfect life be like, what is the one and only right choise that is often so far that at most in sleeping dreams and tales we dream of it? Set your goals there, take the first steps to that direction with your full heart and with all your wisdom of life, and life is at once much more worth living. If you try with a full heart, that is a different things from somehow, with half a mind only, quickly on the way to something else, just somehow sloppily, just because of the looks and not the content, done. First the idea is to get experience of trhe area of life that you love. You do not need to be of professional level to start with, instead the main thing is to to via your own most loved roads get to know the things you love with your full heart, even if they were distant dreams. Via travelling your own roads you can use your capacity fully and learn as much as you ever can. When setting your goals according to your own wishes,according to those distant dreams, your deeds do not lack spirit: you are at once talented in something that you love. First you have a fascinating hobby, then you start to achieve things that fascinate you in it, set new goals that you love and work for them enthusiastically. This way you do not get flat and bored from memorizing books, instead you have your own style and music like fascinatuion in what you do, real power and own insight and well trainbed skills as your support in your favourite job, which is like your deepest dreams and not set by the environment you happen to be in, your nonexistent starting leve of skills and your initial lack of talents. So there is nothing stopping you from starting in your favourite job, first maybe as a practising student and across time as a real professional in it!
On this road there helps the piice of advice about learning skills in things that you love:
How to learn all at the same time - drawing and painting"
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2. How to learn all at the same time - drawing and painting (Like this you learn all kinds of skills!)
Skills are often ways of looking at things: when one cancentrates in the right way to right things and notices enough the right structures/regularities (like for example colours with their tones and with what they get compared with), then skill is born from it already without really practising it - maybe in five minutes, maybe in 20, maybe from two day's relaxed hobby. But the difficulty is to find that right way of looking, being drown enough in it and to know what that skill really demands.
Drown in the experience so strongly that you notice clearly the different tones of the things that you want to learn, for example instead of noticing just red and green, you drown into enjoying the colours and their tones with their impressions so sensitively and experiencing them with your whoke being that you notice even small differencies in tones as clearly as those of colours earlier. The strenght of the experience brings to you vocabulary for that: this is a cold atmosphere, that is a warm social one, what the different things are like, ever better and better noticing such things. Like this you learn to take into account those things. Then just do so and your skill is ok in what comes to that side of things.
All the taime when you do so, when you concentrate to a new side of things, all the time keep your old skills along, for you to get at the same time both your old skills and the new ones. That does not mean keeping to a stuck view or stuck ways, istead it means relaxation in a lively non flat way, reaching a new inspiration, not from dreams but from the fascination of life at the level of experience, which is born of relaxation and of new beginnings, of letting go of old. You can keep your ability to notice the things that your skill consists of, even if you would lose it's formal side totally. Each time you learn something new and the spirit of your skill gets more profound, at the same time as your old skills stay fully.
So what would this mean for me as a beginner without painting skills? One should learn to no5tice forms and colours with their tones, atmospheres, states of mind, harmony, balance, rhythms and their encounters, breaks, what gets compared to what, common spirit and it's complex variations,... And to draw and paint them on paper. So one should drown in the world of colours, enjoy forms and structures, give room for feelings and feel how they affect the way one observes things, get more sensitive to observe how atmosphere connects to what one looks at and how, what associations it brings to one's mind, what role things have in the world and how it brings the spirit to things. One should also learn how to move these to paper: I notice a form/structure, I lift it to be a subject of my concentration and my hand draws a line that reflects the structure in my mind. Superfluous lines are important to drop away in this: not writing, not a language of geometrical forms, instead just a feeling and drownig into it draw a line. Likewise the other sides: a clear image in one's mind and drowning into it drawn/painted shape.
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I noticed that I learned painting well and quickly when in addition to this piece of advice I bladdred through a good quality study book of aquarel painting and was left watching some especially fascinating picture in it, trying toconceive how it was so fine, how it had been painted and why it had so good spirit, how the whole so successfull. Then I left the book open at that place for a couple of days or a few and looked at the fascination of the picture every time I was interested ins uch. Then I painted just something that fascinated me (does not need to be the same subject) partly based on my old skills and learning according tyo the previous advice in skill learning new fascinating things and partly based on what I learned by copying from the picture. Like this after painting a few pictures I knew also new skills quite well.
As far as I know also this piece of advice suits also learning other skills. A good quality study book offers model of a skilled forefigure, who can with her/his style, way of doing and by the things picked to the book teach professionals kills of that area of life. Like this one learns the practices of the profession, it's skills, it's view to the world and even values and it's typical spirit of doing."
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24th of December 2023 If there appear to be kind of maybe quite horisontal, somehow square lines in the air, which maybe affect atmosphere and what one can do and how llng social influencies last, those may be a way of mice or the like hide their presence. So you ought to tell the possibly present mice etc near by, what is the reason why some social contact's view is erraneous and ought not be followed, like telling it to a child or the like. You could also teach the Easy quick school for animsls E11. to them. It is in the above collection too. It ought to help a lot.
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For weather skills, see https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html , the text advances in order, so for the summer part you will have to scroll the text some 3/4 of tge year.
A piece of weather skills heat etc regulation advice for the locals of all climates, see https://learntalents2.blogspot.com/2024/04/heat-regulation-etc-skills-advice-for.html
Some basic advice for learning weather skills, see https://learntalents2.blogspot.com/2024/04/of-learning-weather-skills.html
"Finding a good place to live in
In the Finnish climate of four seasons, it is clear that one cannot live the summer in the same way as winter, since the weathers are so different. One needs to have a liking for tge variatiln of the weathers and seasons to enjoy such life. Typicamly people have a liking of some country's, climate's and type of district's wisdom of life in it's ways of living, and so thry tune toward such, and may forget to or do not want to tune themselves to their present living place's weather skills, cultute, wisdom of life etc. So they would most adapt to and like living in the district whose wisdom of life they admire. So they ought to move there right away. And likewise of family members: each to the climate, country and type of environment that they enjoy are tuned to, which culture's wisdom they value. That way they themselves would be much wiser, natural and happy.
4th of January 2024 Bobby Vee : "I love you more than I can say"
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My own home as an adult has sometimes had a honey like atmosphere. I value animals and nature, admire bees, and I tend to think that it is good to leave things at home in a way that is good for life, but sincere enough so as to know where one needs to learn better ways of living. I value wisdom of life a lot and consider good ways of doing important. I think strongly that wishing well in the world and being fair in one's life are important values to follow in practice, always in everything.
https://miraclelikenature.blogspot.com/2024/04/magnifient-views.html
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Where does women's wisdom of lufe come from
" Women's Day 8th of March in the spring winter isn't actually a celebration. Instead it is a wish to end the winter cold by women's wisdom if they happen to such have with such an effect too. If a child wants tl be a girl, it is for most or all imporant that one could get a child of one's own and carry it in one's stomach. So the child is asked, do you think that you would be able to care for the child in your stomach so well that it does not die but is healthy and grows like a child ought to, and care for the child when it has born but is still quite youbg, say a few years, and care for your own body and needs so well that you have the strenght and wisdom etc for such and things run well for you, your family and friends, for the social group you live in and also the society and world good for life in the future. And so most women and girls learn to care for such yhings somewhat, have some wisdom of lufe anf common sense and think that such are needed. And so if the world is of spirit, Women's Day in ghe quite early spring can help to end the winter cold and bring spring weathers.
I guess such is some general wisdom of how is good to live, suited for all, like healthy ways of living and civiliced wisdom, and taking the environment into account, and wishing well in the world - but even mentioning this causes that many try to convince others of the opposite goals as similarly wise advice in life. But it is like a passer-by of a young person or animal saying/thinking "Gees, good ways of doing and taking the environment into account civilicedly, that's life!". Emotional wisdom of life tells whether one feels well or not, so learning wisdom of life about feelings helps in this a lot, but these are complex subjects including wisdom of life, understanding of good ways of doing, of personal differencies, learning, individuality, society level wisdom and one's picture of the world, etc.
About giving birth, both in Finnish and in Englush: a healthy happy mother and newborn baby, see at links from https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2023/10/miracle-healing-advices.html
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"Doing chores or wisdom of life
It may be that the characteristics (also physical) of women and men, are results of all the time being about to do chores (men) to make the living environment and the wide world good to live in, or caring for wisdom of life (women) in one's own life, in tge living environment and in the society & the world. Both ought to care for both kinds of goals and have lots of experience of them in practical life, for this to work out in practice.
Does this explain what women and men are like, and why they have the rights and tasks they have? One ought to remember that there is lots of variation between individuals!
( about changing gender, see https://womensskills.blogspot.com/2023/03/male-or-female-better.html )
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"Women's view of home
Women's view of home is that it is a kind of car depod?, a carage like space for repair of cars, maintenancy, short pauses and for keeping some needed artifacts, a little bit like the working place of a car repairs man but not so full time work and for so many clients. In a home there are likewise needed nutritients etc, like bensin for a car, and oil etc. The spaces are made good for use and the aim is to be in full intellect, in a good mood and otherwuse good for the actions of the day and of the future too, in good healthy ways. So like a garage maybe needs less dust, people often need that things would be good to look at and good to use and good for life, and the variations between people and things done etc easy and natural to take into account, which typically means that there shoukd be a flower pot or other complex natural decoration object near by, for example on a near by window, pleasant to look at.
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" Social tangles get solved via fair play as a goal
If I think of my own life, I have had some strong strenghts, especially objective thinking, healthy ways of living & wisdom of life and civiliced values followed always according to my best ability in each case. But on the other hand I have had weaknesses too, so that I mostly haven't had my wishes respected in social life. Sometimes when it is a work like thing and I have had enough space for my good quality views, it is ok if others with their skills and civiliced values take care of those sides of things done for which their skills, values and quality are good enough.
Similarly in social life I need room to follow my own wisdom of life, while there mostly is no need for me to command others, since I am not somehow socially such. All following the rule "Live and let others live!" is enough. But what most problems come from is people being unfair on purpose, walking over the rights of others since they think life is some social competition instead of a common attempt to live a good life, each one of one's own kind. So someone being stupid or lacking skills usually isn't the problem, if such does not affect too widely. Since there is communication possibility to fix such problems, and usually most understand that all are different, and it is just nice to do things in one's own ways while one's pal chooses some other option, so that one does not need to compete.
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following civiliced values also in all social contacts,taking the values of each into account,Wishing fairly well in the world,noticing that all are not consistent in all what they do,
" All people love music. That means that something like music is a part of the human nature.
Some few know how to compose music. They see or hear the life as music. We ourselves when we dance can see the connection of movement and music and sometimes when listening to music the connection of music and feelings – but the other way than those who compose music.Dance is important: the body is the central part of a human being, via it we live, regardless of how intellectual or spiritual we are. Via the gesture language we express what we feel and communicate with others, via the body we do everything that we do. Our state of mind is reflected to how we keep our body and how we move.
When one is relaxed and understands the connection of the body and mind, one can see the body as music of life: our whole life is reflected in our body, in its gestures, and the body sings as sensations in our senses – as sensations which we can express by voice. The tones of voice express different kinds of states of mind. So each feeling or sensation is like a sound, like music which we can hear. And from the song of life we can choose a partial theme to be communicated by a song: a melody.
The song of life in us is what life is to us.
It is in other words what we observe,
what we experience.
The body just expresses it as music.
The songs of life of other people we can hear if we emphatice completely RELAXEDLY with their body like is usual in sports hobbies.
Ordinary music pales from the road of this natural stimulus. The whole living world becomes an enormous panorama of music, the great song of life.
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When we act, we have an emotional motivation for it.
That motivation is a melody.
And action according to it is dance.
This dance appears to be dance in its basic form.
To live!
Means to sense, to react and to act in the world, in life!
Thus natural music, the song of our life and the natural dance of natural action
are at the core of what it means to be human!
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" From my long text Skills of Christmas gnomes learntalents.blogspot.com :
" N88. 20th of July 2022 Eino Leino wrote ( my translation) :
"... See, a human feels sorrow and joy
and a human feels and lives.
But a singer wanders and listens
and in her/his ears kanteles play.
Those play, play days
and nights, those echo from far away, so far away.
And a singer wanders and listens
and a singer hears and - sings. "
Life has it's own rythms, like lifting one's glace when one is aware of one's environment, or running a short distance, or how the feel of rainy weather affects how one comes in. Those rythms are kind of like songs, and having started something natural and pleasant in one's everyday lufe one knows how to continue it, kind of saying yes i was singing this song and the other natural refreshibg songs of my daily life. But it is more like lufe singing than any memorized melody.
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" Living fully when inside some work perspective
Find the soul of the work's demands on you & others.
That makes you work better and enjoy your work more.
It also fits your work together with the rest of your life, with your ideals in how to live.
" What I learned from an ant as a baby
" , and from seeing ants I had learned how soldier like ways, moral work for the society amd athletic healthy ways of living & an individual living freely according to it's feelings and it's ages old nature produce the same result,"
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15th of May 2024 Now, a day later, the first chapter of this blog post brought to my mind an image as if someone had said that it looks in style like the first text which started me writing about the skills for a Christmas gnome like life in September 2018, see LearnTalents.BlogSpot.com/2018/09 , but that now is the difference that I look exhausted, unable to explain clearly and well anymore, so it is like what is often the situation of grandparents after the children have grown up. "Circle closes." meaning that new readers coming here, could start from the beginning of that first Christmas gnome skills text and so learn the needed skills.
Six of the latest Christmas gnome skills series books are still lacking from the pile. You can find the series at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLLS8BWC
13 May, 2024
Of publicity : an original work or a platform for others but supported by a teacher
Of publicity I have learned that usually it isn't for a so wide group at a time, but instead like a platform for the individuals in the audience to learn and express their ideas and own versions. So it is like a teacher or a hobby course leader giving a shape which others can each fill with their own views of the subject, some of which are shown to other participants too. So that is very different from having a short look on some original work of good quality. I have had as my strenght the rationality of feelings, so much of my texts are original work for others to learn from, and not just my own versions of something commonly known of the subjects.
At this point in writing my blogs etc, the previous text about how to change the name of a place, appears asked for from most or very many who have lived years in Helsinki, and as I wrote it, it brings memories from school years when I did not understand the short mentions that how such name changes should go or what they would bring, what would happen, etc, since I did not have experience of such social relations, and the others seemed to mention jyst a few individuals reacting instead of human types, people in general, foreign relations, etc.
But anyway, it seems that here the character of my writings is changing : my earlier texts were original works which need preserving, while these later ones would just be parts of masses of texts and opinions in the subjects, mine not especially skilled or original.
About how the names of places change
In the yesterday news there was about a fire of a wooden house somewhere which they named in Espoo but which I had not heard of and which sounded like one of the major old district in the center of Helsinki, just the word "town" added in front. So I was left wondering, was it talk about changing the name of Helsinki to just Espoo, which is this neighbouring town in this same metropolitan area. The trees in the picture looked somewhat like Helsinki style, not so much like usually in Espoo.
But come to think of it, officially changing such a name would maybe bring into town lots of evil foreigners wanting the "hell" name back, so things could go worse. So in practice one could change the name only to what it and the place already are like, so mostly to a nickname or to a better description of the local lufe abd culture there, like for example Rationality, Garden town or Green town, or some old nickname like "Hesa" in Finnish, which in English is something like "Is allowed" or maybe "Ok".
Celebration like atmosphere
Yesterday was Mothers' Day and I was ill from not getting enough room for myself. I do not have children and my childhood was not happy, my mother's advices not suited for my life and my grandmother accepted only boys and men.
But in today news in the internet there was a fine picture from yesterday of a bird mother with it's young, and I thought that if there is a yearly celebration, could one so a day or two afterwards collect some things which were really good celebration like, like for example that picture, eating some bakery and reading some piece of wisdom good for such a day, and talking also of such freely while eating the bakery and drinking tea, and otherwise living a quite ordinary day in a way that is copued from good in life in general.
Likewise of some major happenings, a few pictures or articles collected later is often much more glamorous and wise view than living the day while following the news.
09 May, 2024
Is police possible?
I have never quite understood how the work of a police would be possible. At least for me it has never seemed possible, to just go somewhere like a police when called, arrange something or however such work is done, and so that after that things would stay well, kind of common sense like ways instead of the tendency to criminal deeds that I seem to cause. It may be that I have tried to avoid such pitfalls so much that some just start doing all the things I tried to avoid, but I do not quite understand why it goes so, why do people lose all their former understanding of how to live a good life in a society, etc. But if a police would be like a foreigner, could she/he just come and behave according to basic school like rationality, and things would just take care of themselves, since all agree about the need for basic common sense, basic life running well.
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Maybe some just have more skills in living, thibgs running well in their environment in common sense like ways understood also by others.
But on the other hand, I have or used to have lots of wisdom of life, feeling well, doibg things in healthy ways, allowing each one go their own ways, do things in their own ways, also aiming at getting along. So typically all influencies I get from others make me feel ill, and make me lise much of my skills in life, so I cannot bear such, and so I try to avoid such, but guess that others would like to learn some skills of it, but they don't, at most they would think it a favor toward me, and mostly go to extreme lenghrs to do things completely differently from me even when I just try to follow the most commonly agreed about choices of what is ok to follow in a society, and so they lose their former educated wisdom and I get ever more squeezed and the society around seems to be going toward worse because of the wrong goals taken. When I try to ask of such, they seem to say that yes, formerly they thought lije school teaches and such really is wise but now they chose the opposite and it is very unwise but they say that so it goes, so they now chose and so things are seeming to go so frlm now on, and I have never understood the reason for such greatly worse course in the world, as if my only space left to live in, by doing what was strongly adviced for all, would have been confused as my own rule in the world. A thinker just thinks and clmmunicates, so if one has no folliwers who just kind of obey but do not get robbed or spoiled by others, the thinker affects only oneself, one's own life. And my thinking and life choices are largely toward feeling well and being free, living in wise ways, and I cannot understand why that would cause tge opposite goals on others.
But so I have tried writing, teaching skills so, thinking that maybe the problem was in a social contact. Sometimes some have said ghat they do not want to feel so well, ordinary amount of feeling somewhat well and skills of their ordinary level suit them, and then as if alienated from their knowledge of Finnish life of academically educated people in the capital district, they say in a false looking way that they do not feel like wanting such learning, but I do not know what false they had read, when the talk was just about sports hobbies and other daily life choices of individuals, not about any foreign texts recommended - did they think that a favourite hobby is like taught by books, had they somehow list the ability to read books from the town public library in the ordinary everyday life way?
06 May, 2024
About climate characteristics, compared with October rain
In the news some time ago there was something like a dispute can Israel's Eurovisiln song have the words "October rain". I thought of it as a description of the weathers of Israel being tough and needing extra learning even from those with good weather skills there, like in the middle of autumn in a climate of four seasons. Or that the weathers in Israel feel like slapping with a wet mitten in the face.
But can it be that many who are interested in Christmas gnome like life would prefer something like the October weathers here being a major current in life, so not so detailed eyesight oriented life in the cold, but instead somewhat October like also in the winter time, with maybe some frost and snow as a skill sometimes but not as a full season. So maybe they would like Germany, France, Hungary and maybe Kazakhstan. And some whose emphazis on bush like way of behaving causes pain and aggression in Finland, are maybe referring to bushes in a so warm climate that it never reaches the coolness of the October rain here in southern Finland. So I guess that October rain is one way to recognize better which climates one likes and belongs to.
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12th of May 2024 But if one does not have weather skills well suited to the climate in Israel, as far as I know, the climate there is deadly, people die in a couple of days and some sooner. The Dead Sea is in Israel, and even though Jerusalem is very famous, it is well known that only some especially interested in Israel can travel there, and also those say that it propably was not a so good idea, since the climate, vegetation etc is so very different there, also culture and religion, ways of livkng, and the times of Jesus really were such a lobg time ago in history, and even a long tine ago ghose were a long time ago. Things advertised as a good time to travel, like a leaf hut celebratiln were without leaves, not much possibilitues for life there even for animals and plants.
Climates requiring lots of climate skills are often good for people interested in developing and maintaining high skills, since all people there just have to have some interest in skills to stay alive, and for normal life even a very high skill level is needed. And so in connection with high skills places with a difficult climate are often mentioned, since one could learn high skills from some people there, from what they have written or otherwise produced, but at the same time one is warned about the climate, so best to just read some piece of text and live where one likes ghe climate, culture, ways of living, values and skill level. If one is not interested kn so high skills, some milder climate might suit that skill level better, but it maybe advertices itself with other choices of words and with other values emphasized.
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A piece of weather skills advice for the local inhabitants of all or just about all climates, see https://learntalents2.blogspot.com/2024/04/heat-regulation-etc-skills-advice-for.html
When a child is raised in a climate that very much or absolutely demands some things in weather skills taken fully into account all the time, that typically is arranged via a picture of the world, way of livkng and doing, ways of thinking, basic reactions, values etc, which appear as a kind of culture and area specific style of walking etc outdoors, kind of use of space, body warmth, cooling, moisture, saltiness etc regulation both in the body, near it, in the landscape and in the human contacts snd things done, kind of seriousness typical to that culture, managing to invest more in there important matters. So if you suffer from a lack of weather skills, such culture's thinking perspective might ease life.
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18th of May 2024 The climate here in southern Finland, I guess does not usually feel like anything much for foreigners, they just think it is cool, then they start thinking that there is something lacking, which I guess is too little bacteria on the skin because both their skin and the air are cold, but they think that some social loyalty (in the sense of the local culture having taken seriously some useful wisdom of other cultures) is lacking, so they start attacking socially as if just fallen ill, and then they go somewhere indoors, and quite soon there they go kind of extinguished like the flame of a candle, since such is typical for a flu, and then I feel that they are never heard of again, died so, (or flew to warmer countries,) because did not follow local advices about clothes and traditional foods.
The problem is something like them making their own versions of advices instead of concentrating on following with wisdom and respect for Finnish tradition the advices given. Like if they are warned of cold and of there being no place warmer than cool, they anyway cool themselves as if preparing for tropical heat. Or if they are adviced to stay indoors, they anyway go to the balcony. Or if they are adviced to stay under a warm blanket, they instead of staying under the warmest winter blanket, go to kitchen cooking tea leisurely, or get stuck talking without really warm blankets and woolen socks keeping them fully warm. And if they are adviced to wear a loose big woolen shirt that has warm air inside, they think that being fat could replace warm air. Or if they are adviced to eat ordinary Finnish food with added butter if needed, they prefer some other climate's and culture's foods or cannibalism, and so their foods are not ok for the climate. And when they are adviced to follow local weather skills, ways of living, traditional values etc, they often prefer copying from the Lappland or from the eskimos, which just does not work out, or likewise from the tropics or other warmer climates' cultures.
04 May, 2024
A new book "Work and Feelings"
A new book "Work and Feelings" ought to be in a few days available at www.amazon.com/author/khtervola .
See https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3BP6V56
Paperback version https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3BR1P3L?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520
5.5.2024 You can find the book also at my blog MiracleLikeNature.BlogSpot.com , where there now is also tge ebook "The best fact language is like music".
03 May, 2024
30 April, 2024
Please OBSERVE : Ask more texts from schooled people, I am too exhausted
If you want more texts on the subject, most of those who have gone to school or are in addition educated in natural sciences or theoretical philosophy, could make such almost daily blog posts, booklets or the lije for you. I am just exhausted. I do not want my lufe to be like tgat of a machibe, for example copy+paste of the wanted subject, plus adding some common sense rationality inside school's picture of the world which too is told about. I need ordinary life.
Texts that are wanted are positive in effect, which means that there ought not come a tendency to crimes. So the texts should follow civiliced values and healthy wisdom of life, leaving the life of the individuals comfortable enough, not too laborous in ways that demand all healthy or all motivated or the like. My texts have been aimed at a world-wide audience, tellibg of skills for good lufe year around from a so general theoretically correct point of view that it ought to suit all. (Some of the readers may be ill abd lookibg for healthier ways of livibg via which to recover.)
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19th of May2024 Could you please add to the comments here a link to such pages if you know of such, please!
Magnifient looking home
In the Yle news today https://yle.fi/a/74-20085241 there were seemingly tens of years old pictures of a claimed recent triple-murder in a village with a church related name quite near here. The home looking just ashtonishing magnifient, like I guess happens often with the homes of such valuing wise arts oriented religious elderly, which I guess is often the reason for elderly getting ill and to hospital or being clearly murdered, since many young people long for peace for their own lufe's feacturelessness, so some wish for such a position. Fracturelessness is a different thibg from a high skill level. Skills one can learn via practise across time, if one is sincerely interested in such thibgs and in values suppirting them, and in following civiliced values, wisdom of life, etc. Fracturelessness and peace on tge other hand are a question of one fitting to where one lives, takibg into account what obe's values, dreams, ways of living, being social, skills, likibgs, daily lufe, thibgs done and aimed at, etc, are like.
About making a home magnifient looking, see my book https://miraclelikenature.blogspot.com/2024/04/magnifient-views.html
About high skills and harmony via valuing nature, see my blog ASorcerer.BlogSpot.com
About safety, fracturelessness and a place in the world, read my very long Christmas gnome skills text, starting at LearnTalents.BlogSpot.com/2018/09 . I guess one ought to read it when one is interested in such.
Having peace for a family of one's own is often a question of whether such is largely wished for. Me having children of my own has always been strongly opposed and much sabotaged, people thinking that wise people do not suit as parents. Many seem to think that it is better for me to write advices on skills, wisdom of life and a theoretical picture of the world for some 20 years than say them to a child who most likely does not follow those values as an adult, and whose task it sjould not be to invest one's working years into writing about them for others.
Likewise many other dreams of many depend on supporting ways of living, values, etc, which make such possible for many, like is wished for in the world and good for the world. So many professions or dream like things in life have also an occult side, as if keeping company and teaching such things to others interested in such skills too.
29 April, 2024
Gnomes interest most sometimes, but gnome like people are often old
29th of April 2024 I have written over five years of skills for a Christmas gnome like life year around. Gnomes are a subject that mostly gets it's charachteristics from wishes to get daily lufe work out well and comfortably enough. So as older people usually have more such skills, and so the gnome figure is somewhat like copied from the elderly. And if such features interest, as in the blog post about having bought a music instrument and having been recommended a scarf to keep it without dust, then maybe my book "Magnifient Views, and nice to live in", see https://miraclelikenature.blogspot.com/2024/04/magnifient-views.html , would be the right answer to what interests you in skills for a Christmas gnome like life.
27 April, 2024
A Finnish Santa Claus site
See https://santaclausfinland.fi/en/hahmot/ , even though I only read a little bit from the beginning.
26 April, 2024
About the Finnish book which started me writing about gnome like life
In September 2018 I borrowed from the library in Savonlinna the book "Tontun vuosi" by was it Kirsti Manninen. I wrote a comment about it to my blog in Finnish, but when I some weeks later transmated it to English, I got stuck into the subject.
The name of the book was something like The year of the gnome, meaning the yearly chores of traditional Finnish farms and the traditional celebrations like Christmas, Easter and maybe something else too, connected with the seasons. I think there is an English versiln of the book, called if I remember right, "Finnish gnomes for all seasons", and so it is in it's point of view tied to Finnish climate and things tradition tells about gnomes in Finland. There are gnome traditions also in other countries, at least in Scandinavia and Central European countries.
https://kirjapino.fi/tuote/finnish-elves-for-all-seasons/
If you would like to buy the book, maybe your local old / second hand books' seller could overcome the language barrier.
The book has lots of big detailed colour pictures reaching also the edges of pages, so it as new must have been expensive. And a new edition would demand a good quality printing, which for example my books do not have in what comes to pictures. And the colours of pictures often suit just certain climate or cultural area, so there may be problems if readers are around the world. The pictures are of a different style from the text: the pictures ill lookibg dolls like a climate difference much too big or whatever the health problem, but the miljo traditional Finnish or some version of such, while the texts are objective description of some knowledge of what the old tales of Finnish gnomes say. As far as I know, the former publisher went bankrupt, even though it was well known, so there may be problems of finding a publisher and funding, and there may be unsold copies of an earlier edition of the book.
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Come to think of it, maybe the dolls in the pictures of kind of traditional Finnish farm life, seek to be like foreigners wishing to bring some good lufe of warmer foreign countrues to Finland. But Finland used to have very good life, but it was with weather skills fitted to the Finnish climate. Lazying around, and a too relaxed style, make one lose heat much too much and so one soon gets ill and maybe dies or has to stay indoors. Spending overly much time outdoors, like living only outdoors, causes the same but is different on skin and on character. Sometimes such things work a little bit in the summer time, but most of the year it is just too cold for such. The traditional Finnish weather skills are enjoyable and most people in Finland have chosen the country because of it's climate. Those who in Finland are too stiff or tense, usually long for life in some other climate or culture - or have not gotten a chanca to live a good lufe in the Finnish way. It is just so that the places are so different that other cultures feel as if opposed by circumstancies here in Finland, even though they jyst wish for a different type of nature, different ways suited to different climate, location and it's cultural influencies. Yet as I look back at my life, very rarely there was anything in traditional Finnish ways, like for example woodwork tools sold in shops are not nice good willing lije old times' Finnish, but instead reflect some other values and some other ways of being social. On the other hand, most people have seemed to be so interested in some far away countries, climates, etc that according to common sense they should have moved there tens of years ago, but they somehow wish that they could transform Finland to be like those far away places, but it does not seem to bring happiness here, there is something in the location too different.
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2nd of May 2024 I bought the English version of the book: "Finnish Elves for All Seasons". It starts nicely, but I must say that cultivating some things in the environment demands wisdom and values suited to such, often liking just such life. So a guardian of good life somewhere must be left in peace, respected, instead of others messing around without caring to cultivate such, maybe even not understanding how to cultivate all such things.
The pictures of the English version look quite the same as in the Finnish book "Tontun vuosi" but with somewhat lighter skin as if people thinkibg of northern climate's ways of living affecting health. It may also be that some have come to Finland via having looked at such pictures. Maybe they looked at the pictures from outdoors, thinking coukd they themselves do the same, but the rest of their bodily posture was too leisirely, as if somewhere in Germany or in Netherlands, so I guess they would have felt happier and more socially nicelt part of the lufe there, since in Finland so sloppy leisurely relaxed parts of the body make one feel dissatisfied and somewhat unhappy, less healthy and less activw compared with Central European countries. In Finland a more sporty way of keeping the body and moving is happier and better for the Finnish climate.
Here is a picture from the beginning of my own book "Skills of Christmas gnomes" by Tervola, sold at the Amazon internet bookshops, but only some of the beginning was edited for the book.
The pile of books in the Christmas gnome / elf skills series is amazingly big. The Finnish books below them on the chair are easy miracle healing advices, see www.EasyHealing.info i.e. CuringGuesses.BlogSpot.com .
The books "Understanding the North", "A Sorcerer" and "Magnifient Views : and nice to live in" are not yet in the pile. See MiracleLikeNature.BlogSpot.com for them. The book "A Sorcere" ought to get a second part of a second larger edidition.
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