" O8. What the Christmas gnome like life I write about is like :
* healthy natural ages old ways of living
* dream job or quite much on that direction anyway
* having moved to live in a town or area that one likes, likes it's main professions, attractions, culture and skills
* having skills of succeeding in what one buys
* wishing well in the world at large
* having skills of keeping up a good spirit
* having wisdom of life
* rationality of feelings
* solving world's problems
* miscellaneous fun subjects and life skills
* contact with nature and some handiwork skills
* skills of safeguarding civiliced life
* singing and composing music
* weather skills
* good will and skills of living in harmony
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As books : Skills of Christmas gnomes, and "Skills of Christmas gnomes, continued" available at www.amazon.com which is in usa, but maybe also at the British site. The German site serves also in English https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0B45C7J9M and posts cheaper to Finland. There are huge differencies in the postage costs.
Tge first book has parts 1. - 9. of this blog plus some texts on links, 498 pages hardcover, while the second book has parts 10. - 13. of this blog and no other texts, 97 pages paperback.
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7th of August 2022 The most useful links are mostly in the beginning of the first part.
This text about tge skills of Christmas gnomes is NOT a tale.
15th of August 2022 This text consist mainly of advices kn learning skills and talents that help to make lufe Christmas gnome like. So going back to a text that you liked, which you found to make you lufe more comfortable, peaceful, happy or whatever, and studying that advice, using it in your daily life, can often make those good sides a lasting part of your life.
21st of August 2022 The text became overly long. I felt that the readers were waiting for texts like M1., M8., N97., O10. and O11. and once they found those, there wasn't any need for me to write this blog.
22nd of August 2022 My old Christmas postcards & some other cards.
P1. 7th of September 2022 Today is four years since I started this blog text about the skills of Christmas gnomes. The text ended 3 years 11 months and 3 days after that, and after that i have been with an empty head. But Christmas gnomes are a somewhat religious subject, so better to connect it somehow with 3 than 4, even though 4 too can be gnome like if one connects it with the four seasons https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html .
P2. 8th of September 2022 I came to write a lot, this and that advices about lufe, guided by what i had learned from teaching my dogs which learned superbly well, were responsible characters and got nicely along with others. So i guess this is as near as one could get being taught like a child of my own, which i never had. The Finnish culture gives good possibilitues for learning and growing, but what one becomes like is something lne must decide oneself. Making the world a good place to live in is essential in that. In that choosing one's dream job gives one a place kn the society. Wisdom of life is important too, and skills of living the weathers. School is considered just basic learning.
P3. 10th of September 2022 If you live abroad and do not have the same gnome like possibilities in life, i guess that radio, at least classical music and radio interviews, offers something in the direction of natureand peeks to people with fascinating jobs, and it is worth checking what the town has arranged as possible ways to spend free time, and employment bureau's view of dream jobs & their education being possible brings a better feeling day.
P4. 11th of September 2022 Lately, as if some evil cynical man had said it on some mental or spiritual side, there has been in my tjoughts that one year from now this Christmas gnome skills text will have vanished from most of the world. And some tkme ago today as if he had said that it will be erased next year's spring 25th of March 2023 or earlier. And stay only if Santa Claus, Christmas magic and church some manage to shelter it somewhere.
12th of September 2022 But since it seems that the text is ready, it across time begins to be old text, kind of dusty, nothing new in it. Today i somehow came associste it with old Chinese poetry and Kahlil Gibran's books. So I guess it will find it's place in literature across time.
P5. 13th of September 2022 These books ("Skills Of Christmas Gnomes" & "Skills Of Christmas Gnomes, continued" by Kaisa Hannele Tervola) have a demand in the wide world and not so much in Finland since these things are not so new to Finns, even though they may interest travellers.
P6. 1100 advices is maybe how much a music professional is guessed to have own wisdom of life about how to make life in the society better.
P7. 16th of September 2022 If reading this text about Christmas gnomes brings influencies from a certain kind of life, that maybe isn't a gnome like place but instead it is what you learned from reading and applied to your picture of your life, since after all there are so many types of dream jobs, places to live in, etc.
P8. 19th of September 2022 I came to look st an advertisement of Savonlinna Opera Festival www.operafestival.fi and noticed that i grasped it like this i have to get, like i feel that happened to some who ordered this text about the skills of Christmas gnomes. So i wonder if with opera in Savonlinna's St Olav's Castle is that it is longed for by too many, so that there ought to be some international network of ooera houses instead of jyst one small castle yard during the hottest summer in July. Here is Verdi's Aida : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w9glqJO7XEU&t=251s
Opera tells of big feelings and major matters in life and in the world. So it's view agrees with good quality objective thinking and so with working lufe too. That together with high skill level makes it high culture instesd of just free time enjoyment.
Likewise religion in Finland often seeks to support high quality objective thinking and civiliced values together with healthy ways of living and wisdom of life.
P9. 20th of September 2022 Idid a search for the book Tontun vuosi from which this Christmas gnome skills text started. With at least roughly just the same cover picture and same authors there is the English book "Finnish Elves for All Seasons" by Kirsti Manninen and pictures by Aki Paavola, published by Maahenki which is kind of spiritual and farmers' view. It seems to be sold in shops that sell used books. There was also one seller that seemed international https://www.bookdepository.com/Finnish-Elves-for-All-Seasons-Kirsi-Manninen/9789525870466 but the book was not available at the moment.
This second hand book shop posts abroad too and has now a few books available https://www.antikvaari.fi/k/kirsti-manninen/finnish-elves-for-all-seasons/001ee8fedf7e793858d92be8 .
But the book is about Finnish tradition about gnomes or elves and traditional ways of living. While this blog text is about skills needed for living a Christmas gnome like life in the modern world all around the world. So the subject is of a different character. Besides, abroad their own traditional ways of living the westhers, traditional agriculture, traditional miljos etc might be more exactly right.
P10. 21st of September 2022 If I understood right, a shopjeeper's view maybe is that Christmas gnomes are a subject that suits quite well all climates, and it is a subject that almost all read about sometimes but not all in a rush st the same time. So since I had understanding that would be good to have in large scale questions and since I was interested in Christmas gnome like things, it was a quite good choice for me, but on the other hand quite far from tge sporty lufe I have tyoically liked.
P11. 22nd of September 2022 I wrote to my blog about shops and shopping, that the Chinese do not, at leasr many Chinese do not see China as scarse, instead they experience China as full, buzzling, fascinating good life. Chinese have some good products planned by old skilled people to work well and give rich possibilities in life, but many Chinese mistake them to be basic products and so they think that basic things are enough and would drop other products away. For example oedinary match box with a picture of a dragon in it, chopsticks and food bowl and the bang bang drums of Chinese festivities.
P12. 23rd of September 2022
I found this video of farming in a remote place in Russian Taiga. But usually making a video spoils the culturally homogenous civiliced life.
P13. 24th of September 2022 Indian craftsmen make wooden decorations.
P14. (1111th entry if i counted right) I do not know how to continue this text, and i do not want to continue it, since i have already written too much and lost my skills by reading my own texts from which i have nothing to learn, i instead forget everything if i read, and so it stays. The natural way to continue would be to add nice little gnome like things, for example pictures of something that fits the miljo, or likewise nice songs, but those do not work out and so i need to remove themright after adding, since the miljo weather and culture aren't the same in tropics, Japan, Amazon, Arab countries, etc as here in the northern climate of four seasons, so the small nice things do not work out in the global scale, and when i try such it feels that after a while some overemphasize every detail of what and where, as uf i had had many good options to cjoose from, instead of having found just one video or song which seems to lack the drawbacks which prevented from using the earlier nice fine videos and songs.
P15. 5th of October 2022 "Christianity has been centuries in Finland. Earlier there was Ukko ( Old
Man ) Upper god, which was respect for nature and for the important
things in life, both in the world and in one's own life, and that was
seen in a landscape like view with the trees, cliffs and lakes in it,
and humans and animals living in that landscape quite solitary
holistically rational lives, much like objective civiliced thinking in
these modern times, but respect for the nature was important." Ylijumala means Upmost god, which connected with a global good will in the spirit of fair play, and emphazis on respect for values which are important in life, for lives to work out well. Thunderstorm is "ukonilma", meaning "the weather of Ukko the upmost god of the old times", and much else isn't known. It is said that Ukko the upper god keeps order that way ( like in conversation like someone who is convinced about values, answers if important values are threatened by a too low quality ) or is angry. But that was over a thousand years ago. Yet the climate still asks for the same kind of virtues, at least partly.
P16. 6th of October 2022 I do not know but is it so that foreigners who have come to the country because they wsnt a baby with a local, may look clumsy and out of place and be much too dominant for the local culture, but they maybe wish to live here and be parts of the local culyure, so they maybe would be receptive towards information of the need to follow local culture, it's civiliced wisdom, and how one can learn it, kind of basic knowledge like people from another continent or entirely different kind of lufe need, but from several person so that it would not be so narrow view.
( 7th of October 2022 For a quick 15min school see E11.
Advices for living the four seasons https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html
About position https://aboutmytexts.blogspot.com/2022/10/if-you-dearch-for-some-benefical-effect.html but one needs to follow the culture's wisdom too, for example https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2015/11/healthy-ways-of-living.html . )
P17. 8th of October 2022 Some say that there are mice in the apartments even if one cannot notice any sign of them, but that they may affect life toward unlucky if they are not treated well. They do not need much. Mostly they would be satisfied if there was at the floor a biscuit that has partly gone to tiny pieces. They would keep that as a reserve, just in case they might need it. I do not know what kind of biscuit but i guess that bakery so that it can lift out of bad luck. Very pure product from seeds etc is another guess. Easiest is what you usually eat, Christmas bakery for example, but i do not know if mica can eat such.
P18. 9th of October 2022 I do not feel like being like this gnome skills text, since people's view of Christmas gnomes has as it's parts all kinds of material about gnomes, especially pictures, songs, Christmas gnomes stories and Christmas gnome decorations plus traditions. And to this text it seems that i need to choose softening things that might suit people all over the world. So only the views on skills are mine but not the overal picture of gnomes.
P19. The beginning of this blog text has been written in Savonlinna in Savo in eastern Finland, and the rest, somewhat over half of the text in Espoo in the capital district at the southern coast of Finland. So this is not a Lapplandish view.
P20. 10th of October 2022 In the old times some aristocrats were called "herttua" which means duke but the word is heart or loving, but as far as i understand itwasn't erotical love but instead was an elderly couple who had somehow loving relationships to a wider group of people, for example being able to get a skilled experienced nurse to help the friends who were ill, and taking care of arrangements like wise religious people wjo have experience of such. Nowadays i think such are some pets, which help their family & friends to be feeling for example find a reason for the dad to go out find something for the animal so that it is eadier to be with feelings if there is sorrow or the like. The animal having a different sphere of life, more ages old and being able to offer relaxation and free time to one's family & friends.
P21. What we learned as children under school age, maybe at the age of 5, was do you want to become a part of the society like adults are, having a profession and building the society so that it is good to luve in for all fairly, instead of just hitting others in the head by a building block and thinking that the society is our of control, outside your own sphere of understanding and so you needing to be always bossed around by others who understand the society but you don't. We don't undersrand much but know thst "Live and let others live." is a good rule to follow in a society, and thst common sense, healthy spirit and some civiluced lesrning are needed, and that responsibility is needed, trwsting big matters as big, caring the world responsibly to a good state, and trwating small matters ss small, as not so important, getting a chance for free time there, and watching everything from the point of view of wisdom if life. And so I became 5 years old.
P22. 11th of October 2022 There is the ideal that young people could be with deeds like flames, wise, feeling with wisdom of lufe, sparkling with insight that brings good life in healthy ways, somewhat like heroes of old times, and older people could be like that too. If one srarts from nothibg, it maybe does not work out. But if your people coukd have civiluced values and have learned basic civiliced wisdom like is needed in lufe and learned it in healthy ways and have healthy ways of living. If they would then learn on free time all kinds of interesting skills withoyt giving up the civiliced values in so doing. Would they then if there was a hobby or a hobby like work for a group which would meet every now and then, would they bring there this and that insight and wisdom of lufe like sparks and have fun, enjoy being aluve, young and wise in ways thst carry in lufe and have healthy spirit. Woukd that be like flames? I liked my non-contact karate-do hobby in my twenties quite much that way.
P23. 12th of October 2022 One problem with military alliancies is that if some parties are not moral enough. But so it oftenbhappens in life. If one thinks of one's own alliancies, left alone they no longer follow the same values, and if one wants to perform as s group they often do not agree. But so it is with life, each one has an opinion of one's own and so the system works better at every place or so is the idea, but each part also has goals of it's own depending for example on one's profession and human type. The only thing one can count on are throretical ideals, the good things that one can build upon, and so a free society is also the most well working, people offered alternatives that they sre motivated toward.
P24. 15th of October 2022 " I do not know this well but i guess that if one wanted to change to eating less, for example to a vegetarian with a good mood, i guess that one should not think as one's project, will i go on a diet, or that fat sauce and potatoes is what it needs to be. One should think that like this i can well luve, lufe is pleasant this wsy and social relationships are somehow healthily civilucedly bringing better life, and that it is nice to have as hobbies light wise areas of life like for example some music too in one's life, etc. "
P25. 16th of October 2022 Once this Christmas gnome skills text is ready, people maybe call it the gnome text, but there are so many hundreds or thoysands or even much more Christmas gnome texts, even many books about Christmas gnlmes, that my text just disappears. Some maybe notice that there used to be some teaching material about such skills, but what and where isn't known. And my advices are difficult to remember without losibg the effect, if there isn't any text available to check from. Yet there has been a bigger demand for this Christmas gnome text than for my lufetime's work otherwise, for example healing just by reading a short text, feelings, ratilnality and moral for computers objectively, and paradise theory that makes cyclic view on time possible. And i feel that after my text is ready and disappears to the vast smount of material, other skilked people's lufetime's work get overrun by the need to write lufe advices about gnomes - not for the ill and not for nursery professionals either, but instead for ordinary people whose lufe isn't happy and sheltered enough. The already ready lufe skills texts of good quality shoukd be made available especially kn the internet but also in libraries, to answer the demand in practice! Gnomes as a subject is quite disastrous for the writer who gains no new benefits from it but gets classified as imagination like some not-at-all wise pictures etc, and since tropicians want to be classified as gnomes the writer gets disastrous ways of living as an influence from the tropicians, and the gnomes get classified as a personal interest like on some young reafers without readers understanding that the write wants luve by one's own wisdom of life instead of by glimpses of the imagination ofcreaders both young and old. If there are too many of the gnome books etc, they should be described and classified and possibly quoted to see in which way they have been written, especially if there are millions of them. One shoukd not ruin wise people's luves by the erraneously huge demand for gnome stories, better try write about wisdom of lufe without gnomes being added to it. The www.Google.com search "christmas gnome story" gave some 5 million results and at least the first few were about the subject. One could search also for "christmas elves".
P26. 17th of October 2022 Last week i passed by near by school's outdoor walk exercise day, and some adult left me with a stomach ache. Only when the ache still continued the next day, did i realize that kuds maybe get such influencies from school teachers and from parents in connection with school studies. So if school is hard to bear it may be a result of these inflyencies. Good school books instead appear with a better atmosphere that is according to the idea that kids study skills and knowledge for lufe. So they should instead of influencies from teachers and parents' view of school, get knfluencies and/or info of what is good school book's writer's view of in which way the book are good and nice to study and how to use them as a helping aid in learnkng.
P27. 18th of October 2022 This blog does not tell of Lappland. This blog tells of Finland, of the traditional Finnish speaking main culture of Finland.
P28. My knowledge of Lapplandish nature is only from photograpfs, videos and from what others have said, but as far as I know, tge Lapplandish nature has very tough lufe because of the lenght and coldness of the winter and the shortness of the summer. So the nature has lots of wisdom of life about surviving the winter but still needs to be treated as frsgile, needing that people try to live in harmony with the nature and it's atmospheres, and that is a task which demands the more the greater the wisdom of lufe needed. So I guess that Santa Claus was trying to explain this by saying that it is as if you needed to give lots of presents to the nature, lots of sensitivity toward it's atmospheres and it's wisdom. Tried to explain that there kn ghe north where life demands much you just have to do many things the right way, have one single perspective in which many things are done wisely the right way, like some fine work it is but such a wide perspective across all life is needed ghere in the north. And that is why the wise have an attitude akin to givkng lots of presents. And wise civiliced lufe is also like that, so it is a good perspective to learn also elsewhere in the world, to make it possible to make the present like things we need or want kn our lives.
P29. 19th of October 2022 The nature is wise, especially in questions of the weathers and seasons. But many of the animals and plants are also very young, for example the insects and little birds compared to humans. So the nature where you wander tends to copy from your skills, from what you do, so that if you meet a lot certain situations in the lives of animals and plants, it tends to be a reflection of your own approach in the young ankmals etc. So if things do not go well, try different approaches. For example brisk sporty ways give warmth and wisdom of life in the autumn.
P30. 20th of October 2022 " How long thoughts the citizens should be capable of, how well they ought to think for a certain goverment to work out, means the minimum needed, so for example a hundred times longwr thoughts with good quality is ok. "
P31. I used to have bad luck because of enemy like people. Lately i have learned to soothe away a big part of it. Whenever there is a glimpse of bad luck, like someone with energy shortage attacking, i try to listen to where there might be such a person quite near for example near the house i live in, and find out if they have eaten much too little, especially calories ( tropical food is not ok, in Finland you need to eat Finnish food, and if you would need to eat overly much, mix lots of butter to your food, but mix it as you eat and not beforehand, so you can stop before eating butter against your will which is unhealthy ), or have much too thin clothes ( go under warmest winter blanket ( täkki ) but leave head outside, so you can see that much much warmer clothes can help ), or do not have the skills of living the season (see https://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html ) or are on a diet ( laihdutuskikkoja.blogspot.com ), and in my mind mentally try to get them to correct that error away, and that typically soothes the attacking mindset away. In addition there are foreigners who lack some basic skill and who do not tell it but it soothes the situation if i in my mind try to find a way they coukd learn those basic skills - in the easy quick school for animals ( E11. in this text ) there is a video that teaches one to read, and for position ( see P16. ) & many other things one ought to read for examole my texts, for example this Christmas gnome skills text. But these are not met people, these are impressions of what kinds of people might be somewhere near by momentarily. And if it is a nursing professional messing with your lufe, putting it ashtray, you should ask: " How does this what you do heal? When you count all the effects of what you do, does it heal, what does it heal? If it does not heal, you ought not do it based on your rights as a nursing professional."
P32. Some say that at indoors the walls can be somehow unhealthy, lack of luck, lack of energy, something of the kind. Maybe it is a question of choosing a nice apartment, but i haven't noticed such. But i always leave room to nesr the walls, except when i lean on a wall, since i was taught as a child that small animals in apartments spend lots of time by the walls and near the legs of stools etc, and don't want to be distyrbed. Besides a human uses a kind of round srea of space around one's body and that is goos to notice in thinkibg of how rooms are used, since it brings a more lufe like atmosphere, more benefical to life than square forms. Besides, my dogs were interested in making the walls nicer, said the walls connect with the house repairs man. I also classify heavy and mostly unmoving furniture, room plants etc parts of the landscape in a room and not just the walls, but i do have some drawers etc by the walls, and so the landscape is much more complex and tastes more like life.
P33. If your country lacks some good side that life needs, it is often so much connected with ways of living, that you need to get it via some country and culture that you love, since it may demand lots of cultural influencies to ways of living.
P34. 21st of October 2022 Nursing & other institution like working places may have a lack of energy, good luck and quality. As far as i know, it is a result of a too narrow rigid stuck not so intellugent way of thinking that does not so well manage to arrange things well for life. The form of attention may be lacking too. My thinking course quickerlearning.blogspot.com and some more complex healthy kind of pictures on walls could maybe help in that, likewise healthy ways of livibg and not working as so tired, plus civiliced wisdom.
P35. Good will is easiest to find in small amounts, at a civiluced distance. If one trues to find from oneself a lit of good will, one maybe starts treat others aggressively, as if failing to say thst this work should end. So better to just arrange things well while keeping a civiluced distance.
P36. It may be a spiritual side effect instead of real animals present, but disturbing sounds often get quieter and nicer, if one expresses the wish that only tge mist beautiful songs loudly, and them too only part of the time since we have also other thibgs to do than lustening to a concert, however beautiful it may be.
P37. In military institutions the problem that brings a lack of luck etc, is as far as i know the technical ways to think. One should instead use objective landscape like views like my thinking course teaches, and follow beautiful values.
P38. Places that are not cared to beingvgood for lufe, have often a not-so-good atmosphere and a lack of luck, one for example does not get refreshed when one spends time in them. Making a home good for life is from which one can copy things to value. Having some nature or at least unpainted natural materials is important too.
P39. These two ought to be globally possible, but the third is just our climate zone. If these gnome kind of things appear too fine, try to get used to such possibility, since in the removed texts at sekundablogi.blogspot.com there are many music like, but some were too local and had to be removed from there too.
Young people playing leisurely football on a summer evening and sun shining from a tilted angle. Walking by and pausing momentarily to see them enjoy their time, the ground covered by lawn.
Or young animals or a few people on a safe spot with fresh green grasses, getting a chance to wander there in the nature as a loose group, the sun shining from a quite tilted angle.
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Now here in Finland it is different. One needs to think when going to outdoors, that healthily sportily i meet the autumn wind, with fallen autumn leaves around, trying to learn a quite sporty way of wandering outdoors in the autumn landscape.
