About the ways of living of Christmas gnones

 About tge ways of living of Christmas gnomes 

Last autumn I bought from second hand the book Tontun vuosi (= The year of a gnome) which started me writing. There is in the internet also an English version with much the same front cover, was it "Finnish elves for all the four seasons" by Kirsti Manninen, or something like that. 

The book has both text and large phtograpfs of Christmas gnome like traditilnal Finnish gnomes in traditional Finnish farm chores aroubd the year, like feels good when teaching children, like feels good life. The pictures are of dolls, from a tourist destination "Tyynelän tontut", but the problem is that the dolls look ill, so ill that they are not able to enjoy life in healthy ways that were the traditional Finnish farm life. At first I thought the dolls resembled people from the tropics without weather skills. 

Then I thought those were people who had tried to live outdoors all the time, so that their heat regulation got broken and their ability to adjyst the amount of bacteria on skin got somehow broken too, and they were so tired, without profer rest that they jyst went everything through like an endless sausage, without being able to fully enjoy the variation in chores. And they had too much of the same types of things in their life, so they were jyst fed up. 

Now that I have written for over 5 years about the skills for living a Christmas gnome like lufe in the midern world, I have noticed that Christmas gnones are a subject interesting the whole world. So the style of Christmas gnomes gers characteristics from all or many climates, for example also from the tropics. So for happy healthy lufe one ought to tube the style of the local gnomes to the local climate and the ways of living of each. 

One also ought to choose clothes etc so that the bodily sensations, the states of mind, feelings, social things etc are all separate from the feeling of the clothes, since lufe varies more than cloth sensations, and so one gets a better quality of lufe via a more practical way of choosing clothes to use. 

I think also that ghe traditional Finnish farm life included some reading, and before that age looking at nature landscapes and thinking wise objective thoughts. The books were valued like nice reading, like short pieces of interesting good books, lije a first glimose of a subject in a good quality encyclooedia with photograpfs too. And the subjects were discussed with the people around, like saying to a child "Go, look it in the encyclopedia.", and chikd relling what she read, and adults &older children telling of such things in the world too, and of the lives of others. Likewise checking something in a manual, or a postcard with the handwriting of some relative or a picture of a faraway tourist town or village that they were interested in. Likewise th elderly and sometimes others sometimes when there were difficult times for someone, reading a short piece from the bible to help them tjink wisely, and go outdoors to walk among the trees of a forest, watching the magnifient looks of the trees when thinking of big fine things in the world and watching sometjing smaller when thinking of individual lives, but for some character virtues getting midels from tge looks of tree branches etc. 

The major reason for having reading books as a part of a way of life was to feel relieved and to have more wisdom of lufe. So the reading was for civiluced wisdom, for it's benefical effect in widening lufe spheres, the possibilities in life via making one have wisdom of lufe with which things settle themselves so that one can go to places and get along, enjoy life and such lufe continues from generation to generation, each one choosing their own routes in life with healthy wisdom of lufe along together with basic skills and a view of the wider world of what kind of well working long lasting lufe and ways of living there are available in the wude world, in each continent, country and if one is interested in such, in each town, if one really is incöined to that much labour kn jyst such professions, ways of living and climates. 

Walking and looking at trees while thinking of life (my experience is of a forest road or wide path in a flat or quite even ground with mostly full height pine trees) was much the same as when one nowadays walks a piece of road with trees and nature by the roadside, so that one just notices that "oh, it is this time of the day" and notices thkngs connected with some starting their work career or studies, getting their work ready, somewhere being a pause or minor chores, kind of thinks of lufe as a landscape with working life important and studies and civiliced work being compared with the shapes of trees' branches high up in front somewhere quite near. 

And when there was something difficult in the lives of individuals, one often feels that one needs time to think, and so one wanders some scenery path (typically an uneven path in varied terrain turning continuously this way snd that way, with very varied natyre around but nice and beautiful) or goes to look at the shore near by, and so the beauty of nature, of stones, weeds, small trees by the shore, climbing the path, trees, the variation of landcspes and sights makes one somehow feel that one understands lufe better, even though does not know how, is somehow more satisfied at the level of feelings about one's wisdom of lufe in the lufe in the living. 

The varied wise division of labour between family members and other people around, is an important part of how to get things running well. So it is important that each one woukd do all kinds of chores at least sometimes but that each one chooses what lne wants to do right then and lets the others too soend time in whst they like, but with timetables taking into account the needs of the whole and the needs of each of when to go where or do certain kinds of chores etc. Wisdom of lufe is important. One shoukd do one's lufe's chouces so that the effect is healthy snd wise upon all and especually upon oneself, so that as time passes no-one gets squeezed, angry, criminal, suffering, lije a bomb. Instead there are chores for lufe skills including spirts, takibg part in the milutary service, finding different new places for oneself to live in where the inclination, ways of living, orofessions, ways of doing etc suit one's character so that one does not get bad from ordinary life, does not lue an outer form while feeling bad inside, does not lise good will toward the world and peopke, aninals, ways of living, valyes, skills, professions etc around, but instead is sincerely goodwilling and fair. Correcting practical choices in each occasion on each side to fair creates relueving room for life, niw and in the future. 

Like a person liking to meet lots of people, would have, preferably even in a young age, gone to live at a village near a shop or other social meeting point, and even more likelily to a town where there are lots of people and even a bar. And so many who like such move to warmer countries where there are more people and the air pleasant just for social interaction outdoors. And climate does affect the culture and ways of living a lot, so also the pleasant ways of being social vary according to the climate and culture. In Finland one lives pleasantly in a landscape like view with individuals each having tgeir own chores, likings etc but sharing a common civiliced picture of the world with a shared liking for tge ways of living, especially for the freedom of individuals, the weathers and the nature and the civiliced values giving each one a possibility to choose jobs, hobbies, interests etc that one likes, but with healthy wisdom of life, healthy common sense and the following of the rule "Live and let others live!" demanded from all, i.e. leave others too room to live in, a good lufe of their own choice, for each one fairly, also in the long run.