Juhani Aho kirjoitti lastuja. Minä ajattelin yrittää lumihiutaleita. Sitä miten talvikokemukset kirjallistuvat pieniksi tarinoiksi. Nämä ovat talventuntoja kansatieteilijän näppäimistöltä.

Otsikkokuva on arkinen ja arki on kansatieteen tutkimuskenttä. Tämän ikkunan takana raottelin lastenhuoneen verhoja kymmeniä vuosia takaperin - josko maa olisi jo valkoinen.
Näytetään tekstit, joissa on tunniste climate change. Näytä kaikki tekstit
Näytetään tekstit, joissa on tunniste climate change. Näytä kaikki tekstit

lauantai 29. elokuuta 2026

FLOODS IN MY EYES

Glacier collapse
at the top of the world
in heavenly hights

Floods below

Floods
(words can not tell)

Floods in our iphones
Splashing into our faces
Floods in my eyes

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Some intellectual ones said
that Irak-war did not happen

I think this provocation referred to us,
western people

In our livingroom on telly
war was experienced as action movie
        for us it never was disturbing and
        hurting reality, but merely... ...

Now this random rawmaterial on floods
it is shocking to wach
its easier to whipe the finger

But these floods must hit our face
        In best case our bodies can feel some
        symphatetic ghostshivers as we see
        individuals runing for their lives and
        been washed away ...and the heart breaking
        saving eforts... ...

We are connected
the distance gives us a chance to think,
obligates us to see the bigger picture, 
analyze causalities,
and act

I cherish an utopia
beyond nations, nationalities, national states 
we should recognice our selves as
one humankind living
one home planet...

This kind of consiousness could arise at the times of internet

...finding pleasure and inspiration from acts of planets sustainability

Pax Romana
a very inspirational stage of history - it really did happen - two hunred years without war - and the world flourished

Pax Mundus 2050 -
medalis virtus:
pro patria
pro futurum globus terrae
pro omnia humanitas
in memoriam Nepali 

        I'll live to see that


maanantai 24. elokuuta 2026

BUTTERFLY EFFECT 

Remember snowflake?
        on the sleeve of your coat
        on the back of your hand
wind blew it away, it melted down

...a moment, a fact, time, recollection, oblivion...

a research experience, ethnographic poetry
        poems memory
        echo of the poem
ethnological butterfly wingstroke


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Ethnographic poetry is part of movement that struggles to find alternative ways of communicating ethnological knowledge. I suggest that a poem is worth trying to get some kind of a viral touche's - a hit of a verbal blade or a sword of words - in now-a-days media surroundings. This poem was first published at this blog in finnish 2017.

tiistai 11. marraskuuta 2025

VILUKISSA

Meille tuli kotiin kissa
se pehmentää
        se herkistää

ka tänne meille Hämeeseenpä se kissa 
        jo tuhannen vuotta sitten,
        uuninpankolle asetti itten

söi hiiret
siloiselta käteen tuntui
kiilui silmät, kynnet raapui

mut metsämaan talvi kova,
hanki syvä
        eihän taivasal' pärjänt hän
vaan seuraks
        inehmoisen onneks
                jäihän
        rukki kehrää ja kissa

Ja vielä tänänkin
        vilukissa
on meinaava kylmän arkaa
        ihmisissä

syksyssä harmuassa synkenevässä
        täs ja siel tulevassa
kannattelevi meitä kissa,
       
        oloissa noloissa
ihmistä pientä poloista



sunnuntai 20. heinäkuuta 2025
















FIGURE IT OUT

Man is a prisoner of Gravity 

Man is a prisoner of Ego

          How could we get Free

Burdened by History 
Faraway in Escapism 

     ...
          
          Get back to this World 

          Pull me back to this World 
                           to this very moment 

          See us here 


          THE NAKED TRUTH


There is no intelligence elsewhere 
There is no life elsewhere 

this life on 

          planet earth 

                   is a miracle 


We are alone 


in universe

         the only conciousness is ours

at this lonely planet 

          we are the only concious being 



There never was or will be another chance



          There never was 


                        or will be 


                              another 


                                chance 



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Tourism poster from 1950's. Designed by Osmo K. Oksanen. Adverstaising winter and winter exotic.


sunnuntai 22. joulukuuta 2024

AN ANGEL








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I found this angel print on a bit lonely evening walk sunday 22.12.  It is modest but touching. A small delight on a late night on-my-own moment. 

sunnuntai 27. lokakuuta 2024



HARD FACES

(WHO IS CRAZY - THE OLD MEN IN POWER ARE - STILL, WHY)

newz make me desperate
         want to close away the world
                  glass of whisky,
                  ...descending into my mysteries
                  october make me fall

...darkness, silence, mist, high spruces silhouette, sauna, whisky, long hours, autumn = mysticism, turn inside, reality rationalism fade away, journeys inside, reflecting in space...

... ... ...
     ... ... ... ...

days go by

longing for a snowflake
on the darkest hour of autumn

praying for a teardrop
in the eye of a hard face leader

black turn white
only few degrees away
         (critical 1,5 c° degrees)

anticorrupted antiegoistic wisdom
please, lift that face a little,
         and shadows ease away
         (saw Grave of the Fireflies)

mercy

LITTLE SISTER
...li'l sis...

where do they go
if not to tomorrow(s)

you,
         hard faces
         hardened hearts

You're teasing a child!
         ...shamelesly stealing from a child

and you know better,
         deep inside you do, sure
                  everyone does

         let her,
         lead you


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I draw that picture before my 10th birthday. I always loved winter. And I got my snow adwentures. It was the Cold War era, but still the world felt better balanced than now. Cruelty of the world to day is so tiring. Seosonal depression is knocking to get into my head. Rising of temperature makes wet and dark autumns longer.

sunnuntai 22. lokakuuta 2023

WINTER WORDS - TALVISANOJA
(endangered, vaarantuneet)

kuura : rime
huurre : hoarfrost
riite : frazil ice
viti : freshly fallen white and dry snow
lumi : snow

räntä : sleet
loska : slush (very wet snow)
nuoska : thaw, wet snow
hiutale : flake
kide : ice chrystal

hyinen : hoar
halla : frost
routa : ground frost
jää : ice
teräsjää : blue ice

pyry : blizzard
tuisku: flurry (of snow)
hanki : snow blanket
hankiainen : man carrying ice covered snow
pälvi : patch of snow-free ground (spring)

ensilumi : first snow
lumisade : snowfall
umpihanki : untouched deep soft snow
kinos : snowbank
nietos : drift of snow

tykky : snow-load on trees
kohva : mixture of ice and snow
hile : (shining) loose ice chip  
hyhmä : slush (snow, water and ice)
sohjo : sludge, mush (very wet snow)

avanto : glade, ice hole
polanne : hard and slippy ridge of snow
ahtojää : pack ice
jääpuikko : icicle
railo : broad crack on ice

paukkupakkanen : banging cold (> -20C)
suoja : mild snow-winter weather (< +0C)

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Degree of extinction: threatened, vulnerable, endangered, extinct. All ready extinct winter words: uhku, huove, tiera, kaltto, kirsi, härmä, jasa, siide, sevä, vuotos, kierä, sihu, hauhto, kropu... ect. Diary 22.10. Today I changed winter tyres to our electric car. There is below zero mornings to come next week. It could mean black ice (musta jää) on the road.

perjantai 18. marraskuuta 2022

HOLY MOUNTAIN FUJI

On the way to Edo
Sun rises from the sea
Beams bright up the Mountain top
Its a shining miracle

Sharm El-Sheikh 2022
Annual Climate Change Conference

On the way to Tokyo
Sun rises from the East
Beams climb up a hillside
Do I dare to look...
      
      ...up the mountain of Hope

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Weather forecast promises southern Finland will have first snow this weekend. In the very north - Lapland - also we have snow capped mountains. They are beautiful becouse they are bald, meaning the round shaped tops of these tunturi-mountains are free from the trees and forest. Picture Hokusai 1808 (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji).

perjantai 18. joulukuuta 2020



UNILUNTA (räikeä illuusio) 

 
sääennusteessa lämpenevää

valo imeytyy mustaan

nastarenkaat ratisevat

ihmiskoneet puskevat

kuvastossa lumivalkeaa

räikeä illuusio

lumiukko mainoksessa

virtuaalinen

(mutta)

joulu tulee
valkeus tulee
hiljaisuus tulee
pehmeys tulee

rauha laskeutuu
 

picture from the artist Sanna Vilmusenaho film Lumi / Snow https://youtu.be/0cvn6uK9W80 


SNOWFICTION


weatherman says warming

black imbibes light remains

studded tyres crackle

robot humans push

media bursting snowy-white 

twisted illusion

snowman in an advert

virtual

(but)

christmas will come
whiteness will come
silence will come
softness will come

peace will fall

maanantai 11. marraskuuta 2019

NOVEMBER (SOS)

How is Your Soul

in a...
           Dampness of a Morning
           Darkness of a Day
           Nothingness of Life

November
            sleepwalking... ...---... ...---...

...on air       
           frost feel in a breath
           whiff of a snow
           popping bursting Crystals

White Veils are Falling!
            White Veils are Falling!

All Clear,
            All Well

momentarily
           moment
           rarely
           relief


           ...---... ...---... ...---... (radiotr. arch. 14.11.19 07:42:11 Grw.t.-2/FI) It seems like a cosmological hole. Darkness, some grayish whirls. Humidity over 100. A wall of rain really, hmph (short laugh); a super november ...we are drifting ...it generates some kind of psycho physical gravity (07:42:37) ...---... ...---...

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IPCC report published september 2019 focused on so-called cryosphere. Climate warming is highest at cold areas of the globe. Appearance of frost, snow and ice is decreasing. November in Finnish is marraskuu (marras = latin mors, in english close to mortify, mortal).

tiistai 9. lokakuuta 2018

SNOWMAN & THE COCK


:^)


Lumiukko
Lumikko
umikko
     me -ukko
     I -ukko
ukko, Kukko
Kuluttajakukko
 
     tunkiolla

lämpenee,

...mr president
... ...lämmmpenee
++++ukko
++++kko

+(

:^)


Snowman
+nowman
+no+man
    
The Man, The Cock
Consumption Cock


     On The Dung Heap Top

getting warm,
…mr president
… … it’s getting warmmmrr

++o’+man
++++man
++++ma+

+(


dung heap = compost heap