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. 

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 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.

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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

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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

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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, preferably from a polite distance, supported by some civiliced wisdom of life which does not take forefigures lacking civiliced values, 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

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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. 

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From my blog learntalents.blogspot.com  which is about skills for a Christmas gnome like life, year around (dream job and a nice place to live in, the culture of which one values and admires), world wide 

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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. 

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20th of June 2024   See also https://learntalents3.blogspot.com/2024/06/tranquil-peace-and-beauty-serene.html