" From Skills of Christmas gnomes 31. " f4. " Hi I lived some 11 years in Savonlinna which is a quite small countryside town in eastern Finland in North-East Europe. In the town there is a medievat castle in which there has been on most summers a month-long opera festival. The festival is liked by locals, since it is a nice half-a-day or shorter visit on the summer holiday, nice to show kids. So Finns have advertised the festival a lot, also to fordigners. The problem seems to be that foreigners from very distant countries somehow like the advertisements, something so fine sounding they would like to have themselves, but they do not quite like the Finnish happenibg so much, they do not understand why it has to be just a certakn kund, to fit the local climate, culture, wisdlm of lufe, ways of luving and summer holudays, would be the answer to ghat, but people from the tropics would search for happenings with well known good tropical strong sides in the tropucal vlima
"I was readong the book "Suomen myyttiset linnut" = "Finland's mythical birds" and it had lots of information from Kalevala . Of the eagle it said that it is a bird of fire and that fires have been burned on holy days in connection with that. But the picture of an eagle next to that wasn't like in fire but more like bored. Sometimes when a little bird flies, it looks as if it sprks fire: at the same time uncontrollably playfully flying around and flying freely, just for a small while trying out something, playful, living it's daily life and friendlily social, understanding that the tough world with the seasons is it'sliving environment. Human's actions have the same when oen sometimes for the sake of trying does something sporty, that Hi, I'm like this too, and can this too, a second or a few seconds, just a glimpse somewhere, like the blink of an eye, some kind of spark of skill and character, with more profound wisdom in just the fa