Town of Turku in Finland declares Christmas peace, like is an old tradition, 24.12.2021 starting 11.55 universal standard time plus 2 hours, it is in Finnish and Swedish, but this year because of the corona epidemy there is no audience except via media. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12245918
Friday, December 24, 2021
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Book : Skills Of Christmas Gnomes
In a few days most of this blog with many of it's links as a book
Kaisa Hannele Tervola : Skills Of Christmas Gnomes : Christmas gnome like life in the modern world
ought to be for sale at www.amazon.com . The book is hardcover and 498 big pages, but lacks editing and some of the linked texts. It is 29,50usd +post of a large thick book.
24th of October 2021 I did not find the book by it's name, but did by my name, even though i have noticed that not all of my books are in the listing and it varies which are. The link is propably too long.
I found it by the search "christmas gnome like life".
I ordered one for myself, but the estimated delivery tima was one month from now. So for Christmas shopping one needs to be quick.
27th of October 2021 The book Skills Of Christmas Gnomes was together with the slowest post 43 euros.
29th of October 2021 I intend to keep the blog available in the internet. So if in some country people want to read my gnome skills text but don't have money for the book, they can read it in the internet for free, and in addition libraries could have the book available to read in the library.
31th of October 2021 I noticed that now the fastest deluvery is latest 25th of November. So for the book to arrive for Christmas you ought to order it in November.
There was now a Look inside option in the book's page, but that showed colour pictures even though the paper is for black and white printing, so either the pictures are blurred colour pictures whivh would be quite nice, or then black and white printing like the price reflects.
2nd of November 2021 I wonder why I left the book so unedited, but I guess that this is the version that I tried to send to the Finnish Santa Claus at Korvatunturi in Finland, so that is why. I just efited one header more and then felt that such too was somehow too muvh, not hoped for. It is also so that this version does not have the most controversary texts of the links.
7th of November 2021 If one would buy the book now, it would arrive between 3rd and 10th of December. So soon one needs to be quick if one would buy it for Christmas.
Oh, but www.amazon.co.uk might post it in a much shorter time. These are as far as i understood print-on-demand books, so the delivery times ought to apply even if there isn't any books in stock.
9th of November 2021 There are Amazon internet bookshops in many countries and also in Europe, for example in Germany and France, but in them one needs to be able to understand that country's language.
11.11.2021 I got the book today. The post took a little bit under three weeks. The book is black and white and the pictures are somewhat unclear. The cover is a little bit different from what I planned and there was a black stripe of an inch or so at the ddge of the front cover of the book where one opens tge book. But the interior is ok to read. And the book isn't so thick and heavy as i imagined a 498 pages long book to be. But i have read only the beginning, and the unedited parts are later in the book. I do not know what it would appear like to readers, but certainly not as colourful as the blog.
Just some opening
Come to think of it, can it be on Russian paper? Russians have an enjoyable way of being with the weathers and nature, and have a tradition of valuing civiliced wisdom, so I guess that Russian paper can be a good choise for the subject of skills of Christmas gnomes.
12th of November 2021 I noticed that in the end of the book it says "Made in the USA, Monee IL, 01 November 2021".
13th of November 2021 I did not know how to read a book that I have written myself and a book long for readers, so I gave my cooy of the book to the publuc library. I do not yet know if they will accept it, but if so it will most likely be available for lend at Espoo town library, maybe in the shopping mall Sello.
23th of November 2021 The library in Espoo gave my book back but it was somewhat dirty. I could give it to some other library that wants it, but it needs a transparent plastic shelter upon it's cover.
9th of December 2021
4th of May 2022 I copy the book description here:
"About the possibilities of Christmas gnome like life in the modern world. This book teaches skills and talents for Christmas gnome like life like in the Christmas postcards and Christmas songs and like in books about old tales about gnomes. But mostly it is just ordinary skills for life in the modern world: dream job, hobbies, skills of healing, healthy spirit and a singing experience of life, weather skills and music too, and something about harmony."
21st of July 2022 I lowered the book price to 23.50usd, but the postage from usa to Finland is nearly as high. But i do not know what the price will be in the long run. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09K1TWF4R
Also sold in Germany at amazon.de and it seems that one can use English there. https://www.amazon.de/Kaisa-Hannele-Tervola/dp/B09K1TWF4R/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=G5LTQEBS42JN&keywords=tervola&qid=1658409337&s=books&sprefix=tervoka%2Caps%2C163&sr=1-3 At least now it promsed free deluvery to Finland if one shops by 35euros, or something of the kind, and it was much quicker than usa.
16.9.2022 Amazon.de ( search "tervola" ) sells my books for 24,70eur (500 pages, in it's end my long text about living wisely the four seasons, but without the linked separate instructions on how to get warm, since most readers are from a different climate) and 5,51eur (100 pages) ( the price may vary slightly ), and for example to the Netherlands ships for free if you buy for at least 29eur, or so it was today. https://www.amazon.de/Kaisa-Hannele-Tervola/dp/B09K1TWF4R/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?crid=QUS55XAMUWN7&keywords=tervola&qid=1663326926&sprefix=%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-13
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27th of February 2024 You ought to be able to downliad the book as a text file for free at www.angelfire.com/planet/paradisewins/SkillsofChristmasgnomes.docx .
Short melodies of snow * "Many words for snow"
13.12.2019
"Rising to meet the challenges winter weather sets, brings a healthy spirit and a feeling of well-being.
18th of December 2019
Ordinary rain of snow, quite warm weather
Raining snow, streetlights here and there
The snowy landscape brought to my mind the Narnia adventure books.
Friday 20th of December 2019
27th of January 2020
Yesterday I sent my text about the seasons to the Eskimos but it left a kind of somewhat kkrraahh like feeling.
12.2.2020 My impression is that all but the last, the above winter melody ("Snowy, around -16C") are such that one can listen to them in the winter time, but the last one creates so much heat that one can listen to it only if it so cold and one is just going outdoors. So the last one is not an ordinary song. But I have the impression that it helps some foreigners stay warm in under 0C temperatures if they formerly tended to get too cold.
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16.8.2020 Here in Savonlinna in eastern Finland there is typically each winter some four to five months of snow: from November to March. (4.11.2020 And before that usually during a week or two it may rain snow mixed with water.)
26th of October 2020 The Eskimos are famous for having many words for snow but people in Finland who copy from the Eskimos do not typically experience winter weathers so strongly and beautifully and especially not with so much variation. That I guess is partly because the heat regulation skills of staying warm are also dependent on climate and culture and situation of life, but mainly because being tuned to certain weather means you are sensitive just around that weather while do not do so well in widely different weathers and weather types, and so the Eskimos can sense well around the Eskimo weathers they are interested in.tuned to right then and of other weathers in the same times, but not in much warmer weather with different type of snow, moisture, wind, mood, etc like in Finland. So being tuned to the climate and season one lives in is important in sensing the different types of snow and weathers and enjoying them much.
If you are tuned to for example certain Eskimo weathers that you have and experience them beautifully, with healthy spirit and very enjoyably, with the sense of atmospheres too, you could learn to compose music about them for the joy and learning of others too, please read (my text https://composingmelodies.blogspot.com/2020/12/advices-on-how-to-compose-ode.html) for that. (It does not need to be spring.)
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My book about the four seasons as an e-book, see https://www.amazon.com/Living-Seasons-Kaisa-Hannele-Tervola-ebook/dp/B0CFQ65PB4?ref_=ast_author_dp
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