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“Hey, Christina, how’s it going?”

“You mean, besides discovering that the entire world is a flaming junker of interconnected dog doo-doo?”

“I guess…”

“I’m doing well creatively. It is, after all, the place I go when I need to reconnect with my sanity. I’ve kept up with my blog, and am on schedule editing Book-5.”

“Anything else?”

“Managing anxiety and depression with hiking, but also writing poetry.”

ANYTIME, ANYWHERE You know the place, it’s called Anytime, Anywhere, waiting for a break in the atmosphere, bad times riding a wind that’s ill, blowing in a storm meant to break our will. You know the times, an era waiting for our growth, seeking a road to take us home, not with hollow words in empty rage, but with new voices for a new society in a new age. ©March 2017, February 2026 Christina Anne Hawthorne

•••
the tissue of this scarred question
is not an issue these odd glitches
of meteorological plane of reality
lemons are almost ripe beside the porch
of my building; scared numbness and sour taste
of what to do next and how to proceed to
pass the oblivion and all the syrupy stickiness
of inevitable mundane

@poetry @bookstodon

"Mastered by desire impulsive,
By a mighty inward urging,
I am ready now for singing,
Ready to begin the chanting
Of our nation’s ancient folk-song..."

An epic border: Finland’s poetic masterpiece, the Kalevala, has roots in 2 cultures and 2 countries

by Thomas A. DuBois

https://theconversation.com/an-epic-border-finlands-poetic-masterpiece-the-kalevala-has-roots-in-2-cultures-and-2-countries-261444

Kalevala at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Kalevala

Mistress of the North, Louhi attacking Väinämöinen in the form of a giant eagle with her troops on her back. (The Defense of the Sampo, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1896), Turku Art Museum. The scene depicts an episode from the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, showing the sorceress Louhi (the Mistress of the North) transformed into a giant eagle attacking the hero Väinämöinen and his companions as they flee in a boat with the magical Sampo. Louhi carries her warriors on her back as she swoops down, her enormous wings spread across the green-gold sky. The heroes in the boat below defend themselves with weapons, fighting desperately to protect the Sampo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala#/media/File:Sammon_puolustus.jpg

TFW you remember Interloan & find out you can borrow a book for 20-40% the price of buying it. Yay libraries!
I'm planning to read !<16 nonfiction books this year, but none will have a cooler title than

City of Sin and Splendour- Writings on Lahore

Looking forward to learning more about my grandfather's birthplace


@bookstodon

Cover of City of Sin and Splendour- Writings on Lahore, edited by Bhapsi Sidhwa