And other things I carried home from Finland This summer I have been working as an apprentice at the Pieni Kulttuuripuoti (engl. Little Culture Shop) in Finland. For 20 years, the shop has organised cultural […]
Author: NatureMinded
Forest thresholds for the dead
When grief arrives, we often expect to handle it quickly and in private. But in the old traditions of Eastern Finland and Karelia, grief was handled more gently. Grief was shared out loud and held by […]
On Nature Connection
Naming or framing our relationship with the world as a “nature connection” is a bit risky. When we use those words, we somehow assume that it is going to be easily definable in a way […]