I have now lived in the countryside town Savonlinna in Savo in Eastern Finland for almost ten years. Savonlinna is famous for it's opera festival each year around July inthe summer. So nowadays my approach to writing has been much influenced by Savonlinna and is somewhat like that of arts: handicrafts (of the elderly and of handicraft lovers), religion, summer cottage life, opera (all try to learn something in that direction) and painting (many people at old age) are typical factors here. I noticed this just now after having been composing pieces of melodies to the spring part of my long text about the seasons http://finnishskills.blogspot.com/2014/11/living-with-seasons.html .
I guess that publicity is born of phenomena in the society, of ghe wishes of groups and not of single persons. Like if there ws in Savonlinna an interest in making homes nice and comfortable to live in like grandparents' home at a countryside town, or good for arts and the like, that anyway is a demand in the society, a wish of many for their own lives. Even if there live artists in Savonlinna, it does not appear the same as interest in single individuals. Like this week in the Yle news, which I read here in the capital district in Espoo, there was an article of a Finnish Eurovision singer of 2023 having rented his apartment in Helsinki to others. It sounded like impossible to control what happens with such, does it cause misunderstandings, and so it no longer was a home but instead an apartment with an Eurovision singer theme, with a huge painting of him on the wall etc. Likewise now that I am without a dog after having had two higly learned dogs, I slmetimes wonder if I should h
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