Saturday, June 24, 2017

Finnish organizations

Finns have a society that organizes itself almost by itself and forms a well working whole without much problems. The basic idea is that people should have a way to express their nature in harmony with the demands of living in a society. The way to achieve that are hobby unions and other organizations: people with the wish to express their nature by doing something, join a hobby group or the like that organizes such activity with wisdom of how it fits to be a moral part of the society, for example arranges courses for beginners and rents the room for the hobby groups and has the needed equipments to offer. It is very convenient and serves to fit the people with different needs and wishes to be parts of the same peaceful society. What there are other types of interests, the society usually similarly arranges some road for them too.

Finnish celebrations

If one would like to celebrate Midsummer in the Finnish way but abroad, one could with the family eat some traditional food that is more countryside style, and then go out to a park or otherwise green area and sense the weather, the time of the day and it's light, the nature's beuty, birdsong and the like, leisurely, like is pleasant and has a nice atmoshphere. If one would like to go to some happening, a quite peaceful one to which one can take kids, maybe with violin music or the like: emotional, peaceful, traditionally inclined, sensing the nature etc.
If you like this, maybe you would like to read my long text about the seasons in Finland  http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html .

This year Midsummer is 23. - 24. of June 2023. Like usual, that is almost at the end of June. Yet it comes surprisingly quickly. It is important to start summer holiday before it is too late. In practice there are only two months of summer holiday: June and July, since in the half way of August begin schools and that affects plans a week or so before it. In the beginning of June swimming waters for children are not yet so warm, but around Midsummer they are warm. 


* * *

 In the text about the seasons in Finland in this blog http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html, in the beginning of the part Late autumn, there is about Holy Men's Day, also mentioned Halloween and Thanksgiving which are not Finnish celebrations.

* * *

Father's Day in the second? Sunday of November
This is how we ceöebrated Father's Day, and my father seemed to like being with kids, doing chores
Breakfast served, concratuations
in the afternoon father's day coffee if he likes such, '
father's day cards from kids,
something of interest to him brought to him like a book, handicrafts thing or the like to do in the future, something that he likes, do not need to be a present
phonecall to relatives or some male relative comes to visit and talök about father's day

* * *

Easter tradition
"  There is in Finland that on the Sunday that begins Easter, children have small branches of a tree or bush that has already partly woken to the spring, has flowers, and is among the first such species, and they have decorated the branches with coloured feathers and maybe coloured paper and threads. They go to relatives or neighbours and wave the branch in front of the other one and say "I freshen, I wave branch, to make you fresh and healthy, for the whole coming year. Which one you give : an egg or a chicken? The branch to you and the wage to me." And so they give the branch to the one whom they waved it and told the verse. And so they get candy, chocolade egg or a little money as coins. I think that doing this as a child to my relatives, with the wage a week later on Easter Sjnday, made me learn about healing, since there is the spring to learn from, about how one recovers back to life like getting refreshed. 

"   https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2023/04/easter-tradition.html

https://curingguesses.blogspot.com/2018/12/index-with-cure-suggestions-after-word.html


* * *

Mothers' Day on the second Sunday of May
I have the feeling that mothers would need some kind of gifts (just from someone) but not the deepening of their relationships to others, since the relationships are parts of daily life and so they have adjusted to what is good and works well, but on the other hand people would get better along and be happier if they enjoyed life and so some kind of present for mom, maybe for moms in general, would maybe lift the mood and so be good. And after all childcare and raising children is hard work for years so it is natural that mom longs for some kind of present at least every now and then.
coffee or tea with some bakery is customary or a common meal to celebrate
And to go out to admire the spring time's nature: new green leaves, flowers and birdsong, maybe insects and weather too




* * *

About Finnish celebrations
" Savonlinna was good at celebrating while the capital district isn't so good at celebrating. As far as i understand, in a celebration day there ought to be the thing celebrated, some guests, some ages old life, some time outdoors with some motion too, foods that are kind of traditional somewhat countryside like but somehow stylish like magnifient looking and tasty, and some fine pieces of culture like some song (on a CD?), poem and/or piece of tradition or history, lots of free chances to talk for a while or do something in varied groups, and an end in sight guests leaving they having the teavel or something else for ghe evening. 
But this is just my impression. Home tidy, clean and nice is important too. There ought to be some nature around. 
And like painting or drawing demands a moment of it's own, maybe 15 minutes with time also for the subject, for such life, and with the goal of making a fine piece of art, likewise things in the party demand some space for them at least on the part of the one who offers them, so that the atmosphere is better.
In celebrations it is a rule that one ought to behave well and be good willing, dress in clean celebration clothes too. If one does not feel like behaving so one ought to leave. Also otherwise it is ok to make just a short visit or to not to come if one wishes so. If some have come from far and cannot leave, they can go and find some quiet enough corner and read a book. 
But I haven't been in such celebrations for a long time, years and years. 
"


* * *
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 subjecrs 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. 

Friday, March 24, 2017

Who is suited to what

It seems that people who move from other continents to Europe and Finland, tend to think beforehand that once they get to know Finnish culture, they would easily become Finnish. But that is not so, because the climate is such a huge factor. The climate demands a certain rythm of life, a large amount of the habit of looking all the time and some type of likings in what comes to what kind of things are nice and comfortable. Such are largely character traits: people just naturally like some rythm or consider some things nicer than others, so they are consequently suited to certain climate and not to others.
Like one can learn some skills of others in their favourite things, likewise one can learn some climate skills but still one's likings, one's whole character is inclined to certain climate that you would find quite natural to enjoy and excel in, at the cost of fitting to other kinds of climates.
In Finland climate does not make things nice if you err in your ways of living. Neither do food orientedness or drugs bring contentment with life here, maybe because it is somehow too cold here and rythms of life are different with which you get your daily life work well.
Some foreigners think that if school advice was good, one could likewise copy other good advices and examples of forefigures to do well in life and be happy. But magazines and media at large offer many kinds of things to many kinds of people, not targeting them for all to copy as if they were the same type of persons. Like there are a few types of houses in Finland to live in and different people like them best. Likewise there are many types of professions and different people like different types of professions, not enjoying their life if they are in somebody else's favourite job. And there are different types of hobbies, some fitting the pedantic, some the homely, some the sporty some nature loving etc. And there are many types of sporst, some for the agile, some for the courageous, some for the calm, some for the clumsy, some for all, some for the outdoors orientedm some for those who enjoy company or competition. Each person needs things suited for one's own type of likings and needs, while the highlights of others mostly do not bring good life to oneself.

One can be tuned to only one climate at a time. Often it is so of cultures too, and the European cultures are often very different in what comes to what types of foreigners they get well wlong with. So refugees wandering from country to country does not make so much sense, choosing one's favourite culture goes much better since the ways really are so different even in neighbouring countries.

It may be that often when one longs for a better climate or another kind of culture, the right answer isn't to move to live in another continent or cultural domain, but instead move maybe 200km to a place which is said to have a climate that you like.
Similarly of cultures: it is difficult to adapt to an entirely different ground for life and for society. Propably a different district in one's own country could offer just suitably much different kind of culture (that is why they manage tp be parts of the same country) if one would also choose a different profession taht one likes, maybe a different kind of place in the town to live in, different hobbies, and a far away interest in foreign cultures that one likes.