Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Finding wisdom like Kalevala's

 I watched some videos today evening and put the mobile phone away, but it started playing some concert very silently, and as it is Kalevala's day, the style somehow got influencies of the times of Emias Lönnrot having collected the poems of Kalevala. Once again, like when I was a child, I wondered at the wusdom of the Finns meeting the unwise influencies coming from Sweden and from gge seas. How to sing about wise fractureless views of lufe when the others want judt a date and want to be called highly skilled when they are just newcomers from somewhere without such skills in their cultural background. So singing of high skills does not seem to get lusteners to wisdom. So I guess one shoukd sing songs like many traditional songs around the world: songs about love but especially the seasons and nature and traditional much liked and valued ways of living as a theme, so that one is left remembering the themes and learning a lot about such nature, ways of living, etc in the öiving environment, getting sensory stimulu, memorised knowlezge, thinking of lufe and wisdom of life and of how to take into account these midern times too. So instead of an audience asking anew song for them, maybe the family with friends has a good songbook and each one can wish some song from it, and all those are much liked and bring content to life and wisdom and one knows tvat there are many who like the same song. But this too supposes that if one would like to move to a very different kind of place, say a different climate zone and different cultural domain, one would move there already as a child, since very different choices about weatgers and ways of living do not fit together. 

Elias Lönnrot travvelled near the border of Finland and Russia, where people maybe did not suppose all sharing the same wisdom, so he interviewed just old individuals with insight and with a wish to teach the young ordknary skills for life and what thete was such wisdom, and pass on what there was to learn of the old tines' ways of living in these modern times at the counties where civiliced wisdom was widely valued. 

Animals too share such views. But how often it is jyst a few birds singing in the nearby trees or an aninal walking by, instead of it talking to the whole world. For many to like something, they each typically want to make their own choices about it, and so it seems often quite impissible to pass wisdom so to many, but if the people around and animals around ate wise, that is just nice. 

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I did not want to write this blog post, but as I watched some news video of Mitch Macconnel of the u.s. congress, I somehow got overrun to write it anyway. 

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29th of February 2024   My text about Värmlandsvisan could help if one can use it also if one usn't so very young, https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2024/02/varmlandsvisan-kaunis-kotimaani.html .

Most of the texts of this blog LearnTalents.BlogSpot.com and the texts at links from this blog, seek to teach some strenghts to a global audience. Those are either my version of civiluced wusdom, Finnish culture's skills or my own skills. I have written a lot since I feel that mostly others cannot offer the same good sides, but of course many good quality books may offer valuable things to learn. 

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