A quotation from my long text about living wisely the seasons
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html :
"
SUMMER
May and June
In
the beginning of May the grass is already green and leaves start t come
out of the buds. The weathers get warmer and the atmosphere predicts
coming summer, even if it sometimes were cold. Birds have already
recovered from their long migration journey and one hears birds singing
often, sometimes all the time.
In the beginning of the second week
of May when the ground has melted all the way by the roots of the
trees, get trees their leaves and at once all feel much better and are
less tired. Birds then build a nest in the cover of the leaves, lay
their eggs there and start sitting warming on the eggs or build their
nest in a nest box/hut(?).
The trees get their leaves very
quickly, often even in three days full sized leaves, even though
etnderly light green and thin. Young leaves are beautiful and it is fun
to follow how they develop fastly. The ice in the ground prevented trees
from growing leaves, but when the ground had melted, the trees at once
grow full sized leaves in only a few days. Latest at the middle of May
have the most common Finnish trees full sized leaves. Trees from warmer
climates get leaves later. When birches have mouse ear formed and sized
leaves one knows that the summer has at last come.
Leaves on trees
brings at once a more leisurely atmosphere. The burden of winter has
been carried and now it is a again the time to load the batteries. On
sunny days it is already warm in those places which are sheltered from
wind. For the birds and the insects the summer begins and the school
kids have only a couple more leisurely weeks of school left before
summer holidays, when the families often keeptheir holidays quite soon
and go to some holiday trip or arrange some happening to realize that
the summer has come and to give it a good start. During the Midsummer
which means the lightest time of the year a little bit after the middle
of June most or at lerast many go to their summer cottages, because that
has since ancient times been a celebration and because they have
holiday and want to give a the summer a good start. In the Midsummer one
burns large Midsummer fires on ferries and it is fascinating to be
awake over the night when it is even in the night so light that one can
see the colours.
Around the same time as trees, bushes too get leaves, and suddenly they many, for example "syreeni", bloom with many flowers.
In
the spring and in the beginning of the summer one should take care to
not to disturb bird nests, for example by not walking near or keeping
loud noise near their nest, and cats and dogs have to be kept in leash
to prevent them from eating the young birds which do not yet knwo how to
fly.
Summer is a time of fullness. Some melancholy which on cooler weather
brought a somehow dissatisfied feelings, is now away. The grass is
growing green and flourishing. The summer aren't just warmth but the
flourishing green is essentia.
In the summer time it is easy to achieve one's very best,
but not long work sequences, not labour like a tired one in the
evening, instead like one on a holiday always twinding path leading to
new things one after another, not stuck, finding one's own roads. In the
summer time one's own wings carry well and the beauty of nature,
especially of flowers, give a forefigure of a fine successfull way of
doing things and succeeding but at the same time holiday like. The
summer is a good time for celebrations and parties, for highlights and
it is also rest and loading energy for a reserve for the demands of the
other seasons, getting refreshed, finding one's own rythm like on free
time.
(The thinking course at
http://quickerlearning.blogspot.fi and the advices on links from there about developing in intelligence bring good quality objectivity to summer time thinking.)
In the end of May end schools and there is the spring celebration in
schools and in homes celebrate those who graduated from school, which
feels both ways since on the other hand it is nice that summer holiday
starts and on the other hand celebrating school feels like repeating
something disturbing that was compulsory.
The kids don't feel school
to be an acheivement, it is more like a part of everyday life, one of
the compulsory things to bear through. The illusion of it being an
achievement propably comes from parent in the beginning of the school
year taking a look at school books, maybe for a quater of an hour they
are interested in them, and so they put their kids to read them all year
through, only them, it is maybe 10 quaters of an hoiur x 5 days x 30
weeks = 1 500 times what they themselves felt they needed. Kids arenät
that much more stupid, and school feels like hard work just because it
is too muych work for each subject when the subject does not motivate to
so much work. The most stupid are motivated to it, but if the kid has
on ok head, like most kids have, it gets boring and without brains, and
so the school head is left different from common sense, it is something
on nonsense style and too commanding dictature, which does not listen to
common sense enough. And a part of that is copied to summer when
parents think of school as a part of their kids and not as the work
their kids have been doing, from which it is good if the kid
herslef7himself gets room to one's own characteristics, for example
during the summer holiday.
A piece of advice from bird watching enthusiasts:
"
How to behave close to bird nest or young birds
If you find a bird nest or young birds:
Move further away from them at once, so as to not to disturb the birds.
Bechave calmly and avoid causing noise.
If the bird mother starts to warn or pay attention to you, move further away at once.
When the bird parents pay attention to just the nest and young birds and not in you, you are at the right distance.
If the nest has young birds, the parents carry them food at intervals of even a pair minutes.
If there are eggs in the nest, birds do not fly to and from the nest but
one might see the parent laying in the eggs in the nest.
One must not touch the nest, eggs or young birds.
All bird nests have the shelter of the law: one is not allowed to disturd or to destroy them.
With binoculars one can watch birds from further away without disturbing thme."
Young
birds seem to
learn to fly sooner, and better, if
they look at a tree while they think of flying, since then are their
ideas of what flying is like somehow bwetter for flying.
If it is cool in May part of the time, it is anyway not still cold. So you can
then dress so
cool that you feel the spring air in your skin, you geta touch with the
weather and realize that it isn't under zero Celsius anymore, and on
the other hand dress so warmly that your body does not get cold if you
keep moving sportily. On cool days it is too early to spend much time
unmoving while outdoors.
The Finland's summer, and even more other seasons in Finland, is apart
from the hottest summer days, not so hot that one couldn't
move sportily and practise sports, which generally brings a much better mood and brings endurancy and in cool times helps to keep warm.
The buds of trees and bushes, leaves and flowers etc can be looked at
like pieces of art: what kind of wisdom their atmosphere has as it's message.
With warmth increases the amount of
bacteria everywhere, but in the beginning of summer there is
not yet anything to worry about it,
but in the end of the summer one must take care that wounds do not get
inflammation. You survive the bacteria like you last summer well knew
how to, so remember last autumn in what comes to the bacteria, or
compare to washing your hands with warm water.
In Finland
the growing season of planst is in the summer half of the year from spring to autumn,
even though trees with needless can grow slightly also during the
winter time. Roughly from May to August or September is the only
possible time in Finland for growing wheat, vegetables, fruits etc for
eating and in the old times one had to survive all the year with those.
There is
only one harvest possible each year in the end of the summer or in the beginning of autumn,
but on some vegetables two or even more: especially sallad. This is why
summer is in Finland's climate in it's way a ground for tough realism:
the only possible ground for living here has traditionally been
agriculture in the summer time. This is also a reason why in Finland one
needs to think of everything at least for one year forward, both
energy, work, possibilities for life and food availability. Traditional
Finnish vegetables(?) include "lanttu" and "nauris". Also potatoes have
been eaten a lot.
Spring aren't the most green part of summer, instead in the spring it is nice the miracle of new life born,
the miracle of a new beginning and nature's wild vigour, when it
awakens to life. Also that we are going toward better, toward summer and
increasing possibilities to spend time outdoors and the atmosphere is
via sunshine and green leaves and flowers a great improvement to winter
and autumn. Those most who like birdsong like spring especially.
My views on spring aren't so psecial that energy and pleasant mind compared to the season would be only of that, instead
practising sports matters a lot.
And it isn't so much a certain amount of motion as enjoying practising
sports and the endurancy it brings even if there weren't so much sports
necessarily. So not sports for good looks but instead some form of
sports that one happens to like and good looks, if you need them, come
at other times from the good mood that sports bring, energy, nicer
looks, lighter feeling activities etc. If your physical fitness is weak,
you can increase it with nice type of sports or like I told of the
spring tiuredness in connection with light, just some kind of motion
that way but freely.
In the end of May and in June until Midsummer there is in the beginning
of evening maybe around five o'clock, when after the buzz of people
coming home from work there has been a moment of quiet life, and more in
the evening maybe around half past seven, when people have just gone
indoors, there is outdoors
moments with a strong beautiful atmosphere,
when birds sing, the lush greenery of summer takes room for itself and
it is somehow sensitively atmospheric like young leaves of the beginning
of the summer, flowers and insects and birds and light shining through
branches with green öeaves and scents.
The experience of nature and garden in the end of May is described by the Russian song Tuoksussa tuomien = Valkoakaasiat.
(If Russians like the song also on other seasons, it maybe is because of
too much school like ways and lack of practical experience when one is
like with a new beginning, and of hopes and dreams of better and of
self-confidence of the possibility of a better future, so of spring like
features when too much school like ways of living open via age to
common sense and good life.)
June and July
From the beginning of summer in th
end of May to Midsummer in
June and from that to the hottest summer in
July
This part is a mess, you need to read it through before you have read all about the beginning of the summer.
Late summer which means August is written separately in the beginning of
this blog (because those interested in the autumn may want to read it).
Around 25th of May there are the first hot days, around 25C, and the
summer begins. The kids have their last more leisurely days in school
and the school's ending's spring celebration with summer hymn ("Already
came loved time, summer lovely. Beautifully all places are decorated by
flowers. Again the warmth of the sun gives it's blessing, and creates
the nature anew, and invites to life. ..."), the summer holiday begins.
If you don't feel well in the summer time
1) hot days
In the first hot days of May the
air is usually
very dry.
Then it is important to drink lots of water (eat something salty with
it, because when you sweat you lose both water and salts), or
refreshment ("limonaadi", "virvoitusjuoma", they are meant for that) or
the like, if you feel at all weird, for example one and a half liter to
drink at once and immediately away from the sun or hot place. In Juna
there is enough water vapour in the air from lakes and trees so that
there is no longer this problem. Dry room air gets moistened by water
bucker or washed clothes that are there to dry. But the ground is still
wet in the spring time.
In the summer
if you feel weird (and maybe
headache), it is usually
lack of water
(remember also salt and maybe eat a little of something if you drink a
lot, 1,5 liters lemonade (red or yellow or the like) is good for this)
or then too warm clothes.
Pale feeling some time after having come in from hot sunny place to
coolindoors, is a result of one living in a different way in hot places
than in cool places, more relaxedly without doing much anything and
that is a non-energetic way to be in cool. In cool one should put on
warmer clothes and eat something since in cool one needs a more sturdy
feeling than in hot, and instead of only lazying start doing something,
at least taking a look if there is something in tv.
Feeling unsteady later on a day when one has spent time in hot,
is a mark that one's body is still too hot, so that one should spend
time in cool, dress lightly and avoid at least everything heavy to
eat.You get the right body temperature best back and get the best
feeling if you go to swim on a lake, or if that aren't possible, take a
cool shower. Pour cool water especially over your head and take care of
the temperature of your torso to your healthy normal temperature so that
you feel relieved, with a clear head and in ok for action. When one
feels better and one's body is cooler, it is natural to be more active.
In the sun can one's skin burn: it partly already in the sun
and partly later that day and on the next day becomes red and if the
skin burns worse it hurts to touch or to sweat, and worse still the
surface part of the skin comes away later. A hat with a large adge(?),
long-sleeved shirt, suncream and especially avoiding long times in sun
before one's skin has gotten much colour help to avoid skin burning.
Skin with some colour does not burn at all as easily as winter pale.
When your skin has burned you should not go to the sun, because skin
burning makes one vulnerable to skin cancer. As far as I know suncream
helps a burned skin to recover. So on the first times in the sun only a
short while and maybe after an hour or whatever when your skin has
gotten colour you can spend longer in the sun.
If in the sun one's head gets too hot,
one can feel nauseating and even faint. To that helps immediately to
cool shadow, pouring cold water upon the head to get it cool down,
drinking enough and avoiding being in the sun. A light coloured hat in
the head in sun helps to avoid this illness. Headache is connected to
having lost water and to the head being still partly of wrong
temperature.
Dizzy feeling in the summer time is a consequence of
too warm clothes. Much less is better and more pleasant.
Traditional way to
get cool on hot days is to swim in a lake. The water on the surface,
maybe 20cm, is warm and below that the water is colder. The water is
colder where someone has just moved a lot.
In the summer if there
are many hot days in a row, if there isn't a possibility for swimming,
it is better to avoiud getting hot than get cool after getting hot. One
can
ventilate one's whole apartment from the big windows
during the cool air of night and
morning. If you don't spend long time in a sunny room you don't get
so
impossibly hot. Curtain cool a room if it is sunny outdoors, but if you
spend time in the room, it is nicer if you can see some greenery
outdoors since it teaches about temperature regulation. If the sun
shines to the window quite much from the side, it may be cooler with
window open, but one must check the incoming air if it is at some height
too warm.
If you
don't eat on a hot day anything heavy or
too sugary, you will not get so hot. For example
tomato is light,
likewise
sallads.
A light
hat with edge cools the head in the sun.
On
can on hot days outdoors spend time
in half shadow and get cool
in the
middle of a big shadow where it is cool, for example in the middle of
the shadow of a house.
Even a small wind cools. Also inside a forest,
especially at the shadow side of a large hill, it can be cooler than on
open space. And then again go swiumming.
Looking at
the food recipes in a women's magazine, one would think that Africans do
not know how to bear hot, since they eat heavy food to which they add
lots of sugary as if they felt weak, fatigue and too little vitamins,
rise and fish. Arabs in Morocco appeared to be skilled in bearing heat,
since they made food from things that make the food lighter and bring
vitamins, give needed energy and make lighter the attitude with which
one approaches things.
(
Living in a sunside apartment it is important to ventilate the
whole partment during the cool air of night and morning. Curtains in
the window lessen somewhat how the sun heats the room, but when there is
someone in the room it is often better to keep the curtains a little
bit open somewhere for one to see greenery, especially trees which teach
heat regulation, and some life too, so that one isn't like in a can and
get fried. Just outside the sunside windows it is very hot, so one
should not keep sunside windows at all open when the sun shines quite
directly to them. It is a good idea to divide the aprtment to parts
according to where the sun shines and where it does not shine, because
the sunny places get hot while a closed door or a bag and other
obstacles on the floor prevent cool air on the floor gliding to where it
would ne heated. And when the sun changes place, ventilate those rooms
to which it no longer shines so much. In a hot room only hot day summer
clothes and if your body gets too hot, go outdoors to cool shadow or to
cool shower or go swimming. In hot one must especially take care not to
eat anything too heavy for such temperatures at all, and not too much of
light foods either, for example tomato and fruit but not ordinary food
but in the evening when the partment too has gotten cool some ordinary
meal that you feel like eating. Often Finns can handlke also the Finnish
hot days well, maybe because they got experience in going to sauna and
to cool after that, but not those who copy too much from warm or hot
countries.)
(If one lives in a hot climate, Finnish skills can teach that
cool air always goes downward. That is why freezers always have to be
opened from the top and not from the side. In the autumn valley like low
places have the danger of frost while hills are warmer. Cloudless night
sky makes the night colder.)
In the summer
time
ordinary shoes are too hot and one should use
sandals. On hot days
bermudas or a short skirt and a T-shirt or the like or a hot day dress.
If you have in the sun or otherwise in the summer
a pressuring not at
all good feeling, and the variations of hot and cool don't seem to
affect pleasantly and the summer mood is difficult to catch, ypu are
propably too school, study or work oriented by your basic way of being
or have read too much, to which helps to change to freetime, to a real
holiday with a good holiday like attitude and only holiday type of
things to do.
Jos ajatukset ovat kesällä osan aikaa löperöitä ja laatu
heikompi kuin viileällä, johtuu se osin siitä, että on liian lämmin ja
liikkuminen kömpelömpää (käytä liikkeittesi hahmottamiseen sosiaalista
silmääsi eikä mekaanista mallia), ja osin siitä, että pitäisi eritellä
olemuksestaan, mikä on lämpöä, mikä ruokaa jne mikä mitäkin, niin pää
selkenisi.
If
thoughts are in the summer part of the time
sloppy
and their quality poorer than on cool weather, it is partly a result of
your body being too hot and your movements clumsy (use your social eye
for conceiving your movements and not a mechanical model), and partly of
you haven't been detailed on what is warmth, what is food and what is
what of each kind of thing, so that you would notice how to think
clearly.
Producing nonsense can be a question of having fun, but it can also be a consequence of
the body being too hot like on a hot day
or dizzy like in a flu while one behaves as if it weren't hot and dizzy
but as if one's body had wisdom of life and one's views fractureless
like on a morning after a good night's sleep while waking up when
one has already risen from one's bed. So one should cool one's head and
body the same way as I told about a rainy day after some hot days, so
that one's experience of life starts again to sing and one's perception
ability is fractureless and landscape like and not fragmented and dizzy
which just supposes but does not check.The wisdom of hot days is
something like things not being squeezed to more flat like when it is
too cool for the individual, but on a hot day relaxation brings room to
be feeling, to make one's own choices, live in a good way and take
positive goals along to one's plans, and sometimes, for example with the
help of the nature, art or some summer happening, rise high above one's
ordinary skill level somewhat like starting from positive goals brings
good solutions if and when the basic level has been well taken care of.
In the Finnish climate a moment in the hot sun brings a possibility for
regulating body temperature which brings a pleasant feeling and a good
day, but it demands that one is actively changing place and activity
instead of staying long in one place with certain temperature.
A much too hot body, like other big needs of the body and other
big
needs, if they are not listened to, can make one very angry, in a rage,
for example recommending heavy or ordinary food to one who is too hot
already or on a hot day. If it is hot and food causes you to feel
not so well, or somehow hollw, or like as if you were forced, or in a
bad mood and angry, then you should not eat at all such or anything else
so heavy, not even one bite as long as it is so hot. If you feel like
eating something, eat room temperature sallad or lemonade, or fresh
vegetables or fruits or fatless milk or juice or the like. And you
should take well care to get immediately comofrtably healthily cool
again for example by going to the shadow of a house, taking a cool
shower or going to a lake to get cool.
Likewise
nauseating feeling, feeling wobbling(?), problems with
keeping balance and pauses in consciousness after having eaten or
drunken something in hot, is a sign of there having been
too much fat in it or it having been
too hot or otherwise
too heavy for such weather. Spend some time in cool, for example in a cool shower cures you but don't eat or drink the same as long as it is hot.
If it is a hot day and the air does not move, it is often a sign of a thunderstarm coming with it's cooling rains.
During a thunder storm one must not spend any moments on the highest
spots and not near them, like not near tall trees, for to avoid being
hit by a lightning. One also must not oneself be even roughly counting
higher than the environment and not swim, to avoid being stuck by a
lightning. Inside a car it is maybe safe, if windows are roughly closed.
On an ordinary day without thunder
a wind of varying strenght somewhat like slow waves and moisture in the air, is a sign of quite soon coming ordinary rain. Plants
need rainand likewise people need varying weathers to be able to
regulate their body temperature and varying weathers bring a possibility
for different kinds of things to do and for different types of people
living together.
Storm differs from wind and rain in that the wind
waves at least some of the full sized trees
instead of waving only the branches. Storms also break small branches
from trees and throw them to the ground and at some places trees may
fall. The weather forecast usually warns of storm in the previous day.
Storm wind is often curly and of all the time varying strenght.
In the summer
it can rain also tiny round pieces of ice,of
differemt size at different occasions. Such rains are often short and on
a very small area but can cause damage, for example break car windows
if the pieces are really big, so one needs the shelter of a building or
protecting one's head with arms and to take quickly children and pets
into shelter. Often the sun shines at the same time and it is beautiful,
and the ice melts soon on the ground.
2) cool
In the summer too weathers vary, usually in terms of a few days, so you
need more or less clothes. Socks and a quite thin knitted shirt are
used
for warmth in the summer time. In the coolest days long trousers or
a long skirt and a long-sleeved shirt or a thin coat. Running shoes are
typically too warm for summer use but they fit cool days, and sandals
are the ordinary summer shoes.
On sunny summer days it can be hot in the sun but amazingly much cooler in cool shadowy indoors, which can cause indoors
pedantic agitated state of mind,
if one does not change to autumn and spring like more active sporty
ways to do things and dress warmly enough while one is in shadowy
indoors for a long time. Likewise in the summer there can be large
shadows of trees or houses, cool evenings and cooler days, when it is
good, if you feel cool, be sportily active and dress warmly enough. Warm
summer clothes include long-sleeved shirt, thin woolen shirt, socks,
long-sleeved trousers, warmer shoes, summer coat, nylon sockings. In
coolone cannot lay relaxedly like in the sun and not be as unactive
either.If one spends a longer time in cool, one needs the ordinary
meals, unlike in a hot day in the sun.
The summer evenings are cool and one needs typically a
long-sleeved shirt and long trousers, maybe socks. If one gets cold and
maybe shivers from cold, one must put on warmer clothes, move and quite
soon go indoors, where one can cook tea and eat something with it, for
example Carelian pie with cheese.
In the summer
timefi you don't feel well and not with the rythm of life but are
somehow melancholic, you have maybe eaten too little, too lightly.
Being on a diet to get thin isn't effective on the summer time, but is
better on the other seasons when staying warm demands energy. In the
summer time you should eat according to what you feel like eating, but
healthily with lots of fresh vegetables, and try different types of
meals to find out what you need. Often one should eat healthy basic food
but as lighter versions than in the other seasons, and part of the time
try same kind of meals as people you know to see if those fit to your
summer, for example to hot or cool days. Most long for very light meals
in the summer time most of the time but sometimes they need also heavy
meals like a beaf in the garden, and on cool days or after sitting in
cool in the evening for a long time ordinary healthy meals like on the
other seasons but especially with fresh vegetables and the like and
remembering to drink really lot but not so much water since that does
not have salts.
In the Finland's climate if you live healthily there aren't any cold aches.
In warmer climates on cool evenings or on cool days the cool may feel
like a rapture and bring cold aches, which are a result of the body
being too cold, for example cold on the surface and hot in the middle
parts. One can often experience one's own body temperature by touching
the skin with a hand. Motion makes blood circulation better and helps to
keep the whole body evenly warm, of healthy normal temperature of the
body. Mocing sportily also helps to create warmth, if needed, and on the
other hand it can with the help of the surrounding cool air cool the
body, if needed, but that is evenly on the whole body when blood
circulation is good, like it should. Don't copy from people more fat
than you or from people more used to hot days than you, so as to avoid
learning habits which make the body too cool and are nonsporty. Copy
instead from people thinner than you or more used to the Finnish
climate, copy things connected to heat regulation and quickness of
movements.
(Instructions on how to get warm
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/01/adapting-to-cold-and-cool-temperatures.html )
If there is
in
the summer cool cloudy weather, mainly grey, then courageous and sporty
way of moving like in the autumn when weathers get cooler, brings a pleasant mind, good posture/attitude and
a taste of life bringing a good day out of a grey one, like the wheels of a car biting into the asphalt.
Usually in teh summer time and especially when it is cooler, not
being active brings
apathy. It is good to sometimes have a holiday and
to enjoy the summer but also more active things lighten up the mood.
Motion makes one feel bvetter, for example bicycling and swimming.
Lazying fits the hottest days.
(For advices about starting a more sporty life see point 41. at
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html )
If you change from hot to cool,
don't let the surface of your body
get cool, but instead keep the blood circulation good so that you will
not be hot inside and cool on the surface (and get
aches) but instead
your body has healthy kind of even heat.
A rainy day after a sequence of sunny days brings a relief to
those who suffered from the heat: to humnas, especially to plants and
also to animals. The way one lives on hot days is relaxed largely
unactive and sloppy, when on the other hand the relief of cool weather
and rain allows (1.) tuning one's body temperature to a nice level
between hot days and cool, and brings an (3.) atmospheric, (5.) sporty,
(6.) with freedom to do what one likes, (8.) activity and (2.) more
distant social relationships like if (4.) everybody has time for
themselves and (7.) enough energy to carry through things in a good
mood, in a wrod (9.) life sings and the skills brought by other seasons
help to keep life nicely, the body warm inside and out the air good for
being active and for pleasant being.
About singing experience of life see also this blog's long text about the healthy natural ages old ways of living
http://finnishskills.blogspot.fi/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html .
Nervousness in the summer time is usually the same as on the other seasons:
a consequence of too cool clothes and of eating too lightly,
which is like being on a diet to get thin or having mistaken the
season. It is nasty for others because one often then is also tired,
negative and agitated toward others while the weather would make all in a
socially good mood and friendly, active in well working ways and
getting well along, which is one of the best sides of summer for them
and among the prequisites for the rest and refrehing effect of their
freetime. The forefigures womens' magazines give women are typically
characteristics of the most skilled ones, and not the looks of learning
to be skilled, and so they among other things are usually much thinner
than what would be the right weight for each ordinary individual woman
to be naturally in a good mood and for one's life to work out well.
3) variations of weather and adjustments
In the summer one often
does not feel well if one spends too much time indoors or
is too unactive. One may also often feel not motivated if one is too
much indoors or not at all active. One should go out to the greenery and
spend much bigger part of one's time outdoors and healthily go to
happenings and take part in active life.
If your summer does not work out but you
feel somehow as if ill in the summer time,
you should take care of the basic things of living the summer. 1.5
liters limonade (light?) fixes most of your need for water and salts
(you need it especially once but some buy on a few following days too
but they do not need it so dearly then anymore).
One should take care that one is not too hot (change to a cooler palce,
for example toa big shadow or go swimming or walk to the water or take a
cool shower or eat lots of small pieces (small enough to avoid using
your teeth more than slightly) of frozen juice (but if you are not used
to almost total lack of bacteria due to cold, drink soon afterwards
maybe a half a glass of ordinary juice or the like from which you get
the bacteria you need or maybe wash your hands with warm water or the
like like is customary in your climate.)) or too coll (change to warmer
place or put on more
clothes, especially socks, and move). Heat regulation skills are brought
by admiring the
greenery and sporty motion to get blood circulate well. Instead of being
stuck indoors one should in the summer time spend as much time outdoors
in the lush summer greenery as possible, preferably in half shadow and
variedly in the sun or in the shadow, and do meaningful things. Instead
oif a habitual fixed perspectiuve one should be of somewhat adventurous
mind: what summer time nice you can find around the corner of your
house, or in summer happenings or when wandering in the city, visiting
people you know, espcecially if they have kids or a garden, or in the
swimming place on a lake shore in the half-shadow of trees, and the
like. In addition one should avoid eatuing heavily when it is hot but
eat something anyway, for example sallad and lemonade, and in the
evening a proper meal.
Some are on guard during the other seasons because of cold and cool,
and work well because of that, but in the summer time they don't know
how one should live, should one be on guard and how to live. I would
say that the fear of being harmed by cold and the hardships of wild
animals and plants are mostly on the other seasons, except that the
predators hunt birds' young and the offspring of other small animals,
and insects and birds eat lots of insects and also the rain may kill
lots of insects. But for humans the summer is different mainly because
the ways of doing things are different on the summer time: not so formal
but more individual, practical and feeling, going quicker through
things. Also the environment and the time of the year are different:
there are holidays and one should load energy to reserves for the rest
of the year instead of emphasizing working. In the summer time warmth
brings also a more relaxed rythm: not stuck to habits but being common
sense like, listening to the rythms of life, regulating the time spend
in sun and shadow, interested more in goals and motivational factors
than in working which would suit better cool weather.
If the summer feels somehow flat and too mild, it is maybe because
you should have made a clear difference between the time you use to work and to things related to work,
and on the other hand to free time activities,
for example set aside a certain time each day for work and at other
times arrange some active summer like things to do, for example a summer
trip to somewhere, so that it is clearly a different time, a differemt
kind of sequence of time as work, so that freetime brings forces,
energy, relaxation and refreshment.
If you
feel that you haven't been left enough room to enjoy the summer,
change to clearly holiday like ways, for example to clearly holiday
type of clothes and maybe go to some summer happening or get some motion, since summer is for
holidays, not just a pause of a quarter of an hour between work.
In the summer time
if upon coming from work one is left with a pedantic and/or stuck state of mind
which does not fit summer, one should first if one needs such, rest a
moment, maybe eat something of suitable kind and drink enough water or
the like, maybe quickly change clothes to more leisurely ones. Then
right after that spend a while doing something which in a way is work
like, real things to do that you drown into, but clearly of free time
subjects and not of the type of your work, so that you get rid of work
habits and into the subject of spending free time. So for example a
game, or reading some papers as a job which you need for some freetime
purpose, reading a newspaper story of a freetime subject, taking care of
some freetime thing, some hobby, some summer time thing to do or maybe
listen some nice song in the radio. After that at least for a moment it
would be nice to have somewhat sporty motion as a part of something that
you do, for example going to the garden or taking a short bicycle trip
somehwere to fetch something and at the same time on the road talking
with people and looking at the greenery. The rest of time freely but
motivatedly and fitting your own things together with the wishes of
others according to the rule "Live and let others live".
If the summer feels noninteresting and largely all the time the same things offered
and maybe too hot and too soft, you have propably thought of the summer
as longer than it is and you haven't picked from the happenings,
hobbies and other activities just the most fascinating ones, but instead
you have been absentmindedly taking part in too many not-so-interesting
ones. Summer time is a good time for highlights. Even if you couldn't
go to a really interesting happening more often than once a week, it is
worth it anyway, even if the way there would be longer. Then if you
during the week for example go to swim sometime, it brings a fresh mind,
a pleasant feeling and physical fitness. Also the greenery feels
stronger if in your life there is also something else fascinating than
always the same two or three trees or bushes to look at and all day long
nothing else to do. Being active and sporty motion bring a good mood
and fascinating things make life feel fuller. If you are for example on a
holiday trip taking part skriik skrääk only for the company of others,
you don't bring an as good holiday to your children either as when you
were in a good mood, with a healthy spirit and fascinated with life,
sending others to such life cheerfully too.
Don't go to a strict diet to get thin for the summer if you aren't
good with diets. Instead
listen to your feelings and temptation about
what would be the right amount of food, what kind of food and how much
activities. If you some day before noon don't want to eat more than
juice and maybe an apple, you will not get fat from that, since it is
your natural choise and not a diet. In the winter there is lots of time
indoors and so food may take the place of content for life, but when the
possibilities to move outdoors and do all kinds of nice things in the
wider world increase, you likewise need less food when things to do
bring energy. In the spring and summer you need less food, but not all
the time light but sometimes also a proper meal and a proper snack
according to what you feel like eating, and if you no longer feel like
eating, just drop it away in the middle right then. Happiness and smile
charm better than a thin body, but it is natural to get somewhat thinner
toward the summer, without loosing a good mood.
Finland's summer is too hot for some and too cool for some. But a
Finn can adjust one's body heat regulation between Lapplandish staying
warm in cool and hot day's relaxed lazying in the sun.
Good feeling is like in half-shadow:
On the other hand summer like warm but not hot and on the other hand a
nice cool breeze from one direction or from another after just short
pauses, so that it is easy to regulate one's body temperature according
to which one one goes along with more. In half-shadow it is also nice
the sunlight coming through the tree branches: it's beauty and the
warmth of sunny spots which though isn't hot.
In Finland summer is the favourite season for most even though they like other seasons too. So
if your summer does not work out, if it does not feel so nice, try to be without influencies from other climates
and maybe from other cultures too, but live only in the Finnish way, so
that with Finnish skills and Finnish ways of living the summer usually
is a magnifient experience and very comfortable, relaxed, enjoying the
summer time.
But the people in Lappland don't feel well in warm summer but have great skills for very cool weathers.
Sauna teaches Finns some skills of living with the hottest summer days,
but one must take care to not to spend a long time on a hot sunny open
space or the like. But on a hot summer day sauna isn't a good idea in
the evening either, because the body needs on the hottest days the
coolness of the evenings to recover from the hottest time and to ready
for the next day.
In the summer, like in the other seasons, it is good if one has also
something else to do and the weather, even if it would be warm or
otherwise a summer weather, is just part of the time subject of
attention, since
weathers vary and demand adjustments which for the
active is something nice to do in between but which for the lazy can be a
burden and ruin the joy from the day.
If you are among the few who do not like summer, you can move to live nearer Lappland
or to Lappland. In the sea cost winters aren't as cold as inland. And
there are both towns and smaller places. But winters are there darker,
and in the north there is a time in the winter when sun does not rise
above the horizon.
Foreign tree species get leaves two or three
weeks later than the ordinary Finnish tree species. If that is enough of
summer for you, you could well move to live a few hundred kilometers
northward.
In the spring foreign tree species, which especially some parks in the city centers have, they get leaves later. So
in the beginning of summer when they do not yet have full sized leaves,
one should be especially with Finnish tree species in order to enjoy
greenery. That is why instead of to the city centre one should go for a
walk to suburbs, forest patchs, bicycle roads or the like, so summer
comes quicker and lasts longer.
In the middle of May Finnish tree psecies have full sized leaves. So
they look just like in the summer. But they do grow new leaves in the
summer time. If trees don't have full sized leaves then, they are either
foreign species or on a very shadowed place. So find some other place
to enjoy the beginning of the summer. The summer does not feel like it
begun already if trees don't have full siuzed leaves.
Each season's way of living, things to do, rythm of life,
mood, how prepared you are and to which things, attitudes toward the
weathers and the phenomena in life, type of being active and how one is
tuned to certain way of living with it's values and attitudes, are
diffrent from season to season and so
one should not think of the other seasons while one lives a certain seasons.
The temparature difference between Finland's hottest summer day and
coldest winter day is some 60 degrees Celcius and so each season is of
it's own kind and does not allow being tuned to other seasons. Roughly a
month forward and maybe a week or two backwards in time one can tune to
weathers and for maybe two months forward be prepared to what kind of
weathers are coming and to be aware till the endof the season that one
presently lives when ne season turns to another, but not further or one
loses one's skill to live the seasons. Each season has it's own way of
doing and so winter things should not be read about in the summer ort
one does not learn from them skills in staying warm for winter time's
need and loses joy from the summer.
The elements
of healthy natural life are like nutritients: you need of them at least
alittle bit but the right amount is determined by your sensations and
their effect on your life. or example it is good to spend time in the
nature uin the summer, but if you don't like it, try it some time for a
moment and the next time find a better place, time, company, activity
etc so that the choices fit you and are with a healthy spirit. If you
don't like something, typically it isn't a very good idea to do it every
day, at least mcuh. On the other hand one needs for example motion bbut
one needs to find a way of moving that fits oneself and brings good
effects, movce according to temptations and not like a machine.
The
day of the
poet Eino Leino is 6th July, but who would have the energy
to read in the middle of summer? In the beginning of the summer poems
fitted better and lifted the atmohsphere and wisodm of life.
Music
in the radio is often chosen to fit the time and seasdon, so that
following the radio can be a key to right ways of living the season,
also to ways suited to keeping warm.
The weathers and
temperatures vary in summer days a lot. If you
look at the outdoors
thermometer several times a day, it is easier for you to dress according
to the weather and to rythm your actions right. Even if the thermometer
shows wrong temperature when sun shines to it, you can still estimate
from it something of the heat. There are also differencies in
temperature between locations so summer cottage should have it's own
outdoor thermometer.
If you donot know the weathers of other seasons, you still need a
thermometer.
Already a difference of 10C is for clothes like a
difference between seasons.
In the summer when hot sunny weather changes to cool rainy weather can neighbouring days have a temperature difference of 20C.
Summer holiday
or
enjoying the summer does not mean only lazying, even though that is
typical for hottest days, but even if you were a lazy character,
it is
good for enjoyment, activity and getting things done, if you have at
least five monutes of things to do quickly and continue from that like
is natural free running kind of singing still active, so you have
content to life, touch with life, taste of life, variation, get things
done, realize that activity brings a good mood, and a varying rythm too.
I only now realized that all maybe don't like the summer, but it
seens to be a question of a lack of skill.
In the summer the rythm of
life is differentamddepends on the weather. One does not sit for long at
one place, more likeone spedns time. If one for example goes to market
place, so from one place one
has one kind of view, the next moment the
buzzle of people covers it, from a third point again another kind of
view to the life at the market place. In the summer time the rythm
varies quickly, from relaxed spending time to wandering or doing,
watching the weather, admiring the greenery, being social etc. Partly
that is why
food too should not be heavy but
lighter which
leave room
for being lively - except of course if you for sure are hungry a certain
amount.
To the summer clishes belong ice cream on children, and all tend to need some ice cream for catching a summer mood, but
adults typically dont feel like eatinga s much ice cream as they out of a
habit tend to buy. going to swim is nice, even every day.
It is nice to
spend time in the garden, children palying and adults doing something
or just spending time. Some think that eating out in the garden is one
of the highlights of the summer but for others it is too heavy because
it is warm.
Trips, visiting people, happenings, some nice motion
together with neighbours for example beach volley or frisbee. If you
feel melancholis you have too little to do, and too little happenings.
Holiday trips in Finalnd.
Often
one feels nasty in the summer if
one spends too much time in the sun or for long in only shadow.
The best
is half shadow under the trees when there is slight wind and
company or variedly in the sun and shadow. Also on sunny days there are
quite small round clouds on the sky which offer moments of shadow also
on sunny days.
In Finland one can, if one wants, make love in the summer time,
it aren't too hot, but one should avoid doing it in the hottest summer
days, in hot places or where ordinarily is hot so that there are more
bacteria there, and avoid too hard hysical activity on very warm days,
and take care of being clean, for example by taking a shower and
changing clothes and sheets.
The summer does not feel like summer if you hanven't swimmed in a
lake, walked barefoot on grass and spent time in the nature for example
in a garden and been active.
4) Other summer time nuisancies
Young
birds are not skille din walking and the bird mother commands them to
stay in the nest, and that can make people too
clumsy in the beginning
of the summer. Likewise in the beginning of the summer one may be
outdoors less skilled than usual, if that is connected to young birds,
for example via sounds of birds.
Insects
worry about the autumn and would like to know that by
looking at a (pine?) forest (/nature?) landscape one can from it's
atmosphere learn autumn and cool weather skills and maybe try them
already in the summer time.
In
the end of July and in the beginning of Ayugust, when there have been
the heat of July for a long time, there are
more bacteria around than
usual and so wounds get easily inflammated. The amount of bacteria gets
smaller maybe two weeks after the hot days are gone.
In the summer and especially in periods with hot weather one needs to brging
the garbage out to garbage can(?) much more often to precvent it from
smelling,
so one might recommend once a day and things with food that gets easily
spoiled and starts to smell a lot one should bring out to the garbage
immediately. Compost separately from the other trashes, since compost
smells more easily and one should classify trashes. If you cannot take a
smelling garbage immediately outy to garbage can, put it to cool, like
garbage in kitchens is in cool low under the kitchen sink in a closet
which prevents the smell from spreading so easily, and shut it in a
plastic bag airtightly so that it cannot spread it's smnell. If you were
left at all with a feeling like with bacteria in your hands or hands
dirty, wash your hands with cool water on a wide area and do not touch
food or dishes immediately afterwards but after a moment it is ok. But
in the winter time it can be almost antiseptic and it isn't good to take
garbage out so often.
In the summer, if there are any, even tiny,
pieces of food in the sink, it may easily start to smell, to which
helps carefully avoiding pieces of food in the sink and maybe a thin
metal net, that you can empty, above the sink hole. The sink can also
start to smell because it is dry, to which helps to run large amounts of
water to it. In the shopd it is sold some liquid with which to open a
sink, but one must be very careful with such since they are not healthy.
One can also place a bulb or cover above a smelling sing so that the
smell does not spread.In the summer cottage it could also be the mice
using the sink as a toilet, to which helps to discuss with family
members a better alternative for them, especially that for the mice it
is oh so nice to live outdoors in the lush nature in the summer time.
In the darkest times of
the year in december feels darkness like a burden.
In the summer one can
lioad sunlight to storage by enjoying the lightness. On the other hand,
if you miss darkness, you can in addition to using curtains for dimming
the room also load your need for darkness to storage for the darkest
seasons to bring a more pleasant mood. It somehow helps even if some
other season brings a suitable amount of light and looking around or
darkness, rest and at home at the warmth of a blanket with the suppoirt
of warm food calming down, maybe in the light of a reading lamp to other
worlds by the eyes of a book peeking.
In the summer time in the evenings and in cool moist places there are often
mosquitoes,
to which helps somewhat to be polite and considerate toward them, and
in addition there are mosquito repellents but they are often too
poisonous and one should avoid them.
Usually places which mosquitos like are avoided in the evening time and so one goes indoors
or much further away from clearly moist terrain and pools on the ground
in which mosquitoes enjoy to live. To windows there are mosquito nets
which one can use if one wants to keep the window open, but they are
nets fastened to a wooden frame and not like in the tropics. One should
not scratch mosquito bites, at least not much since that causes them to
tingle more. One can buy from the aphotec some salva for them.
In addtion there are in the summer time
ticks(??) which spend time in long grasses. Because
of them one needs after travelling in long grasses in the evening of
the same day check one's body and that of one's kids and pets that there
are no such fastened to one's body. One can easily remove a tick(?) by
a tick remover
that is sold in the aphotecks or in the pet equipments in shops. It has
a loop that is places next to the skin around the tick(?), then made
the loop smaller and turned around quite lightly which easily removes
the parasite. Some ticks(?) spread a disease called borreliosis, but it
does not spread immediatreöly when the tick bites but only after a
longer time. If around the bite comes later a larger reddish circle, one
should contact a nurse or doctor. But all ticks do not spread
borreliosis. If a tick is left for a longer time it's bite in the skin
gets slightly or somewhat more inflammated.
About summer love (from this blog's text about the healthy natural ages old ways of living, advice 173. yet not translated):
"If one tries to live according to a more sexual reputation than what
one feels right and natural for oneself, one easily feels agitated and
tired since the relationships and life do not work out as well as they
should. So if one wants to be more sexual with roughly all of the
opposite sex to get social contacts work out well, the sex roles are
good for that, but one should not take whatever role or the most
recommended role but instead find the one that is most natural for
oneself, gives best life, is something that you easily fall into on free
time, something from which you find good life and nice things to do
that just you happent olike, so that you are active and in a good mood
with a good spirit and so in associating with people momentarily or
going to shops and such, maybe one third of the opposite sex makes you
think "Oh a woman" or "Oh a man" somehow handsomely, charmingly,
pleasantly and you get well along.
On the other hand if you search for how you yourself would be very
sexual and charming, then living Life with a big L, while searching for
better life according to the rule "Live and let others live" (
see this blog's text about it and it's link), maybe brings such in those circles which you like, to which you want to anchor your life."
If the summer does not work out,
does not feel nice, does not start well or feelsnonmotivating, swim in a lake, at least once, so you get a summer like feeling. At least walk to the water. It helps somewhat also to swim in a pool outdoors.
Summer advices
When
the warm summer weathers arrive in May, it is
important to change to cool enough summer clothes that look quite nice
and are nice to wear but which are not too cared for because such brings
stiffness or pretending ways. Then it is important to spend time
outdoors enjoying the greenery, it's smells, the coming of the summer.
In the beginning of the summer it is good
to buy a summer flower that
blooms the whole summer, or if you have a garden then flowers to the
garden, because that brings lots of pleasantness and helps to get a
touch of summer.
Finland's summer is short
compared to Middle Europe and warm countries, so that one cannot copy
from them at all or one loses the whole summer since it goes past much
much too quickly. So
Finland's summer demands grasping the moment.
One needs to spend time outdoors when it is warm and green, already in
the beginning of summer a ot outdoors and going to swim immediately when
the water is warm enough, and to go to summer cottage in just thow
maybe two weeks when the weather is good and one has holiday. Part of
the time it is rainy and the temperatures vary according to cloudiness,
winds, rain etc. Most hot days are in July, but then is the summer soon
over, so one needs to grasp the moment already in the beginning of June
and enjoy the summer. The bushes and trees bloom most beautifully and
the bird song concert are already in the change of May to June and bird
song already in the spring.
Summer isn't a question of surviving through
weathers & challenges, like other seasons in a way are. Summer is
more like a question of leisurely ways and holidays: how to be able to
relax, how to get much out of a holiday and collect energy for using in
the rest of the year.
Relaxation helps in warm and in hot,
and in relaxing it is essentially to not to read work or school things
but instead takes lots of time off,
takes things leisurely and figures
out free time fun, healthy kind of things to do and
nice free time like
interests like recognising bird species and plants, gardening, trips,
happenings, novels, talking with friends and aquiantages, travelling,
hobbies, etc.
A varying rythm in the things you do and in your day bring
freedom to take into account weathers, varyingly light foods, company
and things you do.
Catching the summer mood
In the beginning of the summer the ground is still cool and the water in
the lakes cold, but at least some time in June it would be good -
at least once in a summer, but better if more often -
to walk on grass with bare feet, lay on the tall grasses watching
grasses and trees overhead waving in the wind and clouds in the sky, and on a hot day or from sauna after a pause of few minutes go
to swim on a nearby
lake. So one has better endurancy for the whole year to come.
In the summertime one should also go to summer cottage at least for one weekend and also
sit sometiumes in a garden.
Estonian Saarenmaa valtz, here in Finnish by the famous Estonian singer Georg Ots, fits the Finnish June:
Just
in the beginning of the summer all still remember the burden of work or school and even the elderly suffer from the months spent too much indoors. So you cannot
start the summer well by copying from others, but
you
can copy good ideas, single things to do that were good for starting
the summer activities, mood, energy and enthusiastic happy mind, and
so do such things oneself or with one's family and other summery
holiday like things too, isntead of copying the atmosphere of others
which still suffers from the past seasons.
If it already begins to be the summer, but you havenät yet gotten touch with the way of living it but stay indoors instead, try
ina
sunny moment go outdoors to some luch green place to watch at the
greenery, flowers and listen to birdsong and feel the scents of the
beginning of the summer. Even going around a block of houses with
gardens if it is sunny and green, but a half an hour trip to some forest
makes one realize the season, time to change to holiday nad load energy
for the rest of the year. Also doing something outdoors in the sunny
moments brings energy to one's habits and helps to realize the season,
for example taking the bicycle out and trying it, garden work and
bicycle trip.
The beauty of nature is partly a question of a way of looking. One should be interested in the
multitude and richness of forms and colours, of the atmosphere of
plants' growth whne looked among other things along the way they have
grown, the magnifient moments of bird's flight, treen looked from near,
the nature from the point of view of an insect or bird where even a
small branch or grass can be biggest factors of the living environment,
the atmosphere of the time of tha day with it's birdsong, light coming
through the leaves to a mist, how one always finds new variations
slightly different details full of feeling and atmospheric for example
in pine's surface and it's thick branches, in the beauty of a forest
lanscape viá trees, the different atmosphere of each type of lants etc.
Would a garden game for fun help to start the summer alsoon elderly people?
In the hot days one needs to remember to drink lots of water and
to eat something salty with which to replace sweating's salt loss.
Shadow and wind cool, likewise cool lake waters (in the beginning of
summer walking to the water and when there have been a few hot days then
swimming) and not eating food as warm. In the hot days one needs less
food, because body warmth does not need extra energy, but it is good to
eat sometimes. Sunside rooms are often hooter than outdoors and
shadowside cooler. Relaxed ways bring a relief in hot days, and tense
like reading or memorising read things brings a nasty feeling on hot
days. One should not spend long times in the sun without a hat, because
if the head gets too warm one gets a headache and nauseating feeling and
may faint, to which helps cool and shadow. Half shadow under the trees
is often nice on hot days and watching the nature helps giving skill in
being with the hot weather, for example relaxation.
Cooler summer days in between bring relief to those for whom the
summer is too hot, and bring a possibility of being active after/between
hot summer days.
Here is in a video a song called Morning in Airisto (archipelago area at
the sea): "So brightly, brightly sihnes the sea at Airisto. When the
wind moves joyfully, on the waves sing this relaxed song of mine. When
slenderly, far bendingly hurries this our boat far away, we don't have
any worries, the wind took them away, we drown in sleep. It's pure
silver glimmer I see at the top of the waves. I tie my arms to your
throat h my lovely darling. Now morning sun glimmers, to it's charms I
am left. ..."
In the summer there are a variety of
summer happenings around
Finland, to which it is nice to take part. Those are often on small
towns or villages. In them one can admire in addition to art, also
pleasant weather, lush greenery and old living environments and
traditional ways of living.
In July it is often quiet in towns and people on a holiday, often on a summer cottage or on a holiday trip in Finland.
Here in the video two singers from the Finnish National Opera sing a
traditional Finnish song Where rowing in the wind: "Where rowing(like to
row a boat, means waving) in the wind slender white-trunked (with black
raptures) trees sing, and most roses shine, there our beautiful wedding
bride processions joyfully plays/dances/runs around, the echo rollingly
repeats our joy. There our childhood's days most shining are, when we
wander on familiar lands. There we shall vow a love oath that ought to
not to be broken, so that we would always have love. ..."
In a summer time's rainy day wear long trousers or the like. Then you
can wear a coat and go for a walk to see and listent o the rain and the
nature somewhere where there are trees or bushes: to listen to the rain
drops on leaves, to look at the beauty of the rainy weather's nature
and to smell the greenery on rain or just after a rain. When you return
home, put wet shoes to dry well ja wear dry woolen socks, eat pie or
something of the kind and maybe drink a cup of tea.
In a rainy day
you can take care of such things that belong to ordinary life but you
have no time for on hot summer days, like reading leisurely something,
wash clothes, repair something that has gotten broken etc, so that all
such has been leisurely done when it comes warmer weather and the real
good time to spend time outdoors.
In summer cottage we have
sometimes sung and played when it rainbs and went outdoors when the
clouds pass. And when it rains longer, watched some DVD movie. If it
does not rain so much, you can well do things outdoors when it rains, if
you want, like making a bird nest box, if you have the possibility to
dry clothes that have gotten wet.On cool days one eats ordinary food,
but on warm days one eats something light and takes care to not to eat
too much on hot days. The evenings are often cooler and it is also
cooler indoors, so if your body has gotten cool, you can eat ordinarily
even if it was a warm day.
I have used to think that
poet Eino Leino's day is 6th of June
(and not of July) and that has been good so, when the greater art's
civiliced wisdom conquers book knowledge from school, work and studies,
so one does not get squeezed but is left with enough room for life. Eino
Leino's poems are beautiful nature, love and the laws governing life
poems, old, touching, among the most famous in Finland.
"The Song of the Sage Väinämöinen
There aren't many joys given to a human child:
One the joy of spring
and another of summer
and third of high, clear autumn's joy.
Plough, saw,
harvest,
rest at last in peace from labour.
There aren't many sorrows given to a human child:
One a sorrow of one's heart,
another worry of living,
and third of high, strict death's sorrow.
A friend betrays,
life leaves you,
magic is hero's only work and enthusiasm.
Why would sing I, to whom kantele was given,
other joys
and other sorrows?
I cannot count the stars of the sky,
neither the fishes of the sea,
not the flowers of the grasses.
So I sing of what a human is given to sing about.
Men should not sing knowledge, skills,
not bring forth them.
A hero is allowed
to sing only, how years change and weeks,
how sparks get lighted
and dimmen away again
and how goes the law of death and life.
All else is just glimmering of the sky,
fakegold,
splash of the waves.
A hero ought to sing like the sea,
as great, holy,
something to be afraid of,
tender like the resting night over the lands.
There are many songs, also many men of songs.
There is one song
above the others:
humans' ideal's, spirit's strict song.
Peoples disappear,
what does not disappear
is the might sung by a great one knowing the soul of one's people."
Eino Leino (My translation)
"Grave song
Restless is the river and waves roll,
sea alone is great and sea lovely.
Sleep river in the arms of the sea.
Wind wanders and leaf flies.
Happy the one who was in time in a valley.
Sleep leaf in the arms of the valley.
When the day rises, the star fades away.
One does not fade away for forever, the one who left from life.
Sleep star in the arms of the day."
Eino leino (My translation)
"I wander the paths of the forest
I wander the paths of the forest
on a summer evening thinking deeply by myself
and my chest enlargens of joy
and I sing, just sing.
There in the lush woods under a hill
it was strange a moment ago
so slight, wonderful
under the green leaves of trees.
I, a man, only know it,
only me and somebody else
and the lush wood's loving bird
and a tree in flower spreading it's scent."
Eino Leino (My translation)
"Nocturne
Dark wheat bird's song in my ears,
above the wheat seeds full moon;
summer nights happiness is mine,
to a mist dresses themselves the valleys.
I am not joyful, I am not sad or sighing;
but bring to me forest's dark colours,
the red of the clouds to which day vanishes,
faraway sight of a windy hill that sleeps,
the scent of tiny pink flowers and the shadows of lakes;
of these I weave my heart's song.
To you I sing miss, summer grass,
my heart's great silence,
my religion, sing as melodies,
an oak leaves head decoration lush, new.
I am no longer tracing vanishing fake lights,
in my hand happiness's gold,
life's sphere around me gets smaller;
time stops, wind indicator sleeps;
in my front a twilighty road
leads to an unfamiliar cottage."
Eino Leino (My translation)
"When my woman left
I did not get, my dear woman,
any other souvenir from you,
than only your foot print left on my home shore -
took the waves that too from me already."
Eino Leino (
My translation)
If one knows how to stay warm, knows the Finnish seasons and the Finnish
wilderness, the old Finnish paintings in Ateneum Art Museum are a fine
experience.
In the summer time it is
nice to wander and for example go to
market place or travel along a shore or the street of the garden
district, but for that one needs good shoes, which are often
sturdy sandals that
don't shear(?) feet. All sandals aren't as good. The quality of shoes
depends also on the place you buy them from. If it is a cooler weather
one does better with other kinds of shoes. One shoudl not limb all the
summer but find so good shoes that wandering is no problem.
Midsummer is the lightest time of the year, of the summer before
the autumn gets closer again. Midsummer is best celebrated ona summer
cottage or in Midsummer happening, where essential is the large
Midsummer fire, summer evening, children running around, eating thin
pancakes with jam if it is cool, traditional ahndicrafts, dance etc
shows in the beginning of the evening, the twiulight of the summer
night, the charm of a special time of the year and the Finnish nature
lakeside, maybe dance a little bit with one's spouce if there is
Midsummer dance and when one has watched at the flames of the Midsummer
fire enough, then home and soon slowly to bed. Midsummer is in a way a
celebration of the summer and thinking of the seasons, and a sense of
the shortness of the summer, because Midsummer is called the middle of
the summer celebration, charm of the summer night realizing that after
maybe two weeks it already s tarts to get darker. Take along a woolen
shirt, maybe a coat and socks, because as the night advances it gets
cool. Maybe also an umrella and some money to buy the thin pancakes or
the like, and pay attention to where you left the car or what time goes
the bus on day like sunday.
Summer starts when you have been swimming in a lake. There is
something ages old in that. Lake water is somehow more natural in the
summer time than the shower water of towns or the water of swimming
pools. At least walk to the weater, so as to get a part of the effect.
Sometimes there spreads algae to lakes later n teh summer which prevents
swimming.
Aso walk barefeet ona grass. It brings a summer like feeling. And spend time in garden or at summer cottage.
July with it's many hot days is traditional holiday month. Latest in the beginning of July one needs to swim in a lake for the summer to feel like summer at all.
July is the hottest summer month and then you need to get the joy out of
summer, because after that in the halfway of August begin schools and
the summer is over. Even though one counts the end half of August to
late summer, the most summer like weathers and the summer end when
schools start on the average.
Does playing
accordeon teac living with the seasons, when
accordeon has a beautiful voice in a not-so-fine looks? The sound of
accordeon has many pitces at the same time which brings to mind living
with the nature and the weather and the seasons. Playing 5-rowed
accordeon is easy compared to piano accordeon and it maybe is the same
kind of easiness as is good to have in questions of ways of living: easy
natural choises according to feelings with a sense of atmospheres.
In adventure books people typically
know how to live the seasons well,
likewise in animal stories. In their own ways also poems teach livbing
with teh seasons, likewise loving the nature and having a sports hobby.
Trips to the nature can be pleasant when it is beautiful, green
and half shadow, but for them one needs good shoes and one needs to look
at the landscapes enough to avoid getting lost. Take a water bottel
along for each to drink. Going to an art exhibition can teach how to
look at the nature so that it looks beautiful.
There are many
songs that suit summer, maybe most songs. The
harmony of warms ummer time is decribed for example by Sunnuntaiaamuna
("Ir is summer's bright morning and a summer sunday. Trees don't move a
leaf, also birds are silent! Slightly bloom the fields, the hills are
green and the religious morning bells ring just peace, peace...")
For example love song seem to fit the seasons when one can spend time outdoors without problems.
Here the band sings in the end part of the hottest summer: "There are
still some summer days left. There will still be beautiful days. You
will still get a chance. ..." (Only maybe a half of the pictures of this
video seem to be from Finland and half from warmer countries.)
July is a time of full bloom. The late summer shows plants as grown
to their full size, with mature wisdom. In the end of the summer it is
harvest time in gardens, of course in agriculture too.
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