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Härkönen
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A thermos full of tea
Walking around Manhattan with Reverdy & Rimbaud in my bag, translating Finnish poetry from an unpublished manuscript and enjoying the spring weather; all and all what I consider a productive day
March 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
March 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The harpsichord is an underrated instrument
March 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Happy Valentine's Day! Schubert played by a husband and wife duo
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Schubert: Fantasien D.934 András Schiff and Yuuko Shiokawa
YouTube video by amadeus
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February 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Moon walk from last night
February 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Been enjoying Carmignola's Bach recently
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Bach: 6 Suites a Violoncello Solo Senza Basso - YouTube
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February 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Scenes of Boston winter
February 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Reading about Tibetan lojong practice, seems highly worthwhile
February 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Been finding it very useful to read several translations of the same poem. The differences become a sort of koan that stays with me, even and perhaps especially if I can also read the original
February 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sunning my flowers
February 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
January 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's about this much snow here but it's sticking and boosting the little light that we get. Walks hit many times harder than they would otherwise in terms of energy and sheer awakeness provided
January 29, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The lion was saving him from the pillar that was being placed right where he was napping when the volcano suddenly erupted and covered all
January 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
November 29, 2024 at 7:21 PM
November 28, 2024 at 1:12 PM
My landlord's cat likes to come hang out in my room. Here he's trying to make me sleepy while I was reading
November 21, 2024 at 7:25 PM
November 21, 2024 at 2:03 PM
November 21, 2024 at 7:45 AM
"It's remarkable. When I told you how little time I had to write & that I should change my life in order to write more, I was nonetheless writing all the time; now that I have designed my life around writing, I barely write at all; in fact this letter already is the most I've written since I moved.
November 21, 2024 at 7:09 AM
The disciple walked out to the verandah and found the master eating rice shaped exactly like in sashimi but without the fish.

What is this, a new exercise in austerity, the disciple asked.

The master pointed at the nearby temple cat who was in the process of gulping down the last piece of salmon
November 21, 2024 at 6:55 AM
10cc - I'm Not In Love
YouTube video by 10ccVEVO
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November 21, 2024 at 6:54 AM
From the diary of a Finnish poet: “We’re adrift in time, especially when anchored in place. At the bus stop I travel in childhood, in the future, in the words my friend said last week. The bus is late; time dilates, expands in all directions; my raft wanders in the cross tide.
November 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM
A photo I took through the window of my family's sauna in Finland c. 2018
November 19, 2024 at 3:15 PM