tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33982295154451431452024-03-13T08:06:05.233-07:00FinNALABeth L. VIrtanen, Ph.D., Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05351765035952804525noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398229515445143145.post-40940794462570142282021-11-10T06:55:00.001-08:002021-11-10T06:55:25.966-08:00<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">FinNALA</span><span data-offset-key="13h49-1-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> News</span></p><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="2gl4p-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2gl4p-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2gl4p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Our FinNALA.com website's host decided that it was no longer going to support the SiteBuilder tool that I used to create the site, which means that I have been unable to update it. </span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="f70a0-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f70a0-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="f70a0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="3rmi7-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3rmi7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3rmi7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Also, I have been very busy with job changes and the like, so I have only just be able to try to move the page to another host. Well, SiteBuilder is not compatible with anything, so I have to manually recreate the site. </span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="ep2jl-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ep2jl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ep2jl-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Given that we are not a commercial site--and I have to rebuild the whole of it--I wanted to change from a .com to a .net. If you are interested, you can observe my slow progress as I learn how to structure Word Press pages, link them, and add content. </span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="f6auf-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="f6auf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="f6auf-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="90h9b-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="90h9b-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="90h9b-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We are live, and we are in progress, but hold any updates you might have for a little while, at least until the new year, so that I can get more of the materials uploaded. I am copying and pasting from page files in the SiteBuilder app on my desktop to the Word Press site. </span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="10t60-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="10t60-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="10t60-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="38gd2-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="38gd2-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="38gd2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">You can follow my slow progress at </span><span class="py34i1dx" style="color: var(--blue-link); font-family: inherit;">https://finnala.net/</span><span data-offset-key="38gd2-2-0" style="font-family: inherit;">. You will notice that parts of the template pages are still visible. Rest assured that the guy with the hat will be replaced. </span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="cm8h3-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cm8h3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="cm8h3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="43npd-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="43npd-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="43npd-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks, everyone, for your patience and support!</span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="3sabt-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3sabt-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3sabt-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="bi6gxh9e" data-block="true" data-editor="80u8p" data-offset-key="1q1a5-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 8px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1q1a5-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1q1a5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Beth</span></div></div>Beth L. VIrtanen, Ph.D., Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05351765035952804525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398229515445143145.post-14802137614660320252017-03-07T10:29:00.002-08:002017-03-15T10:13:25.192-07:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
The FinNALA Newsletter</h2>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Volume 10, No. 1</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Publication of the Finnish North American Literature Association</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Beth L. Virtanen, Editor-in-Chief<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">G.K. Wuori, QC Watchdog<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s time to Subscribe/Renew your Membership for 2017 in the</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Finnish North American Literature Association (FinNALA)</span></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Receive online access to <i>Kippis! Literary Journal</i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Membership Fee for 2017 is</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">$20.00 US (Membership may be combined with contest entry--see below)</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Beth Virtanen, President, </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FinNALA, </span></i></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Kippis! Creative Writing Contest </span></h2>
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<li style="color: black; line-height: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Winners will be published in Kippis! 2017 paper Edition. both online and </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">in hardcopy.</span></span></span>
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three public reading events by authors, poets and other creative writers at
FinnFest USA 2017 in Minneapolis from September 21 to 24. If you are going and
would like to read your work at this event, do contact Beth Virtanen,
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on Friday (22<sup>nd</sup>), Saturday (23<sup>rd</sup>), and Sunday (24<sup>th</sup>).
In your email indicate the title and genre of the work from which you would
like to read. Also provide a short biography along with a recent publication
history by April 1, 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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authors and poets is amassed, readers will be selected and scheduled in the available
times. Readers will be notified by email and will need to confirm attendance in
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Donna Salli has a new book in print:<i> A Notion of Pelicans</i></h3>
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</span><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">On a windblown bluff above Lake Superior sits a fieldstone church. Founded one hundred years ago after a puzzling encounter with a flock of pelicans leaves Lavinia with a curious notion, Pelican Church still draws inquisitive souls to its pews with the legend that one solitary bird still circles overhead, watching. These people have notions of their own -- a pastor’s wife wants a honeymoon, a professor has harebrained ideas, a business owner is in everyone’s face, a young actress can do or be anything onstage yet struggles with every real-life decision -- and their stories, tucked away for years, unfold and glide onto the pages of Donna Salli's intimate debut novel. The people of Pelican Church </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">are oh-so-human and expose their mix of shifting hopes and obsessions, protected infidelities, and notions gone awry as one October day swings from sun-up to sundown under the watchful gaze of a single pelican.</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong>Author bio</strong>: Donna Salli is a fiction writer, poet, essayist, and playwright. She was born and raised in Michigan, along the shores of Lake Superior, and holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She taught college-level English for 24 years. In 2000, she received a Mentor Series Award in Poetry from the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, MN. In 2012, she was invited to the Great Plains Theatre Conference, where her play "The Rock Farm" received a staged reading and panel critique as part of PlayLab. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif;">The work, available at Amazon, is published by North Star Press of St. Cloud. Find it here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Notion-Pelicans-Donna-Salli/dp/168201035X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488910399&sr=1-4&keywords=salli">https://www.amazon.com/Notion-Pelicans-Donna-Salli/dp/168201035X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488910399&sr=1-4&keywords=salli</a> --</span></span></div>
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Burt Rairamo has a new book in print: <i>In the Shadows of a Gas Plant</i></span></h3>
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<span style="line-height: 17px;">28-year-old Richard Starr’s dream has become a reality. He has been hired</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 17px;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XhSRdI0KSoU/WMbw8n0vNJI/AAAAAAAAAm8/-OU3rARS19U6rfMOXHi627-KNgUlgtoDQCLcB/s1600/Rairamo%2Bcover.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XhSRdI0KSoU/WMbw8n0vNJI/AAAAAAAAAm8/-OU3rARS19U6rfMOXHi627-KNgUlgtoDQCLcB/s320/Rairamo%2Bcover.JPG" width="206" /></a>as Plant Superintendent of one of Brook’s Gas Company’s cylinder filling facilities. He recognises he has much to learn in this new industry, but he is determined to give it his all and succeed. As Starr struggles to master his job, he is being challenged at every turn by his staff and his superiors for being an outsider. He quickly learns that he has inherited a mess, one he is expected to clean up. When one of his employees is found dead under suspicious circumstances, he realizes that the plant problems run much</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 17px;">In the Shadows of a Gas Plant is a thrilling drama told by an industry insider who has seen it all. With unexpected twists, heart-wrenching conflicts, rich characters, humorous episodes, and compelling relationships and romance, the novel offers a rich and unique take on the industry and the people who work within it.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 17px;">Born in Finland, Burt Rairamo immigrated to Toronto as a teenager. He graduated with a Gas Engineering Technology Diploma from Ryerson</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 17px;">Institute of Technology, and an Honors Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of Toronto. He worked in the industrial and medical gas industry for over 30 years as Operations Manager, and finally as General Manager and Vice President. Later on in his career, he began writing poetry and short stories.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 17px;">He has been published in literary magazines such as Toronto Quarterly</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 17px;">and anthologies such as Every Heart has Feelings, and Connecting Souls.</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 17px;">Finnish Voices in North America. This is his debut novel. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 17px;">You can get a copy of Burt's book from Friesen Press here: <a href="http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/119734000034108047/Burt-Rairamo-In-the-Shadows-of-a-Gas-Plant">http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore/title/119734000034108047/Burt-Rairamo-In-the-Shadows-of-a-Gas-Plant</a> </span></div>
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A Tale of Triumph” by Diane Dettmann follows Yasu on her adventures as she
escapes the U.S. internment camps of World War II and flees across the U.S. as
a fugitive. It is not only a great coming of age story but more importantly
brings to life a part of U.S. history often glossed over in history books. It
is both a sequel and conclusion to Diane Dettmann's earlier work, </span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11.5pt;">“Courageous
Footsteps.” I must admit I haven't read “Courageous Footsteps” but “Yasu's
Quest” is written in such a way that you can enjoy it as a standalone novel if
you like. Although after reading “Yasu's Quest,” you may want to consider
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11.5pt;">The writing
style is simple enough that even the youngest of young adult readers will be
able to enjoy it, but it is complex and deep enough to be enjoyed by any age.
“Yasu's Quest” does exactly what historical fiction should do in that it raises
meaningful issues while simultaneously staying historically accurate. More
importantly, this book brings to light real history in a compelling way making
it accessible to readers of all ages. Any young readers interested in or
currently studying the events of World War II should consider reading “Yasu's
Quest” as a way to get a perspective on an often-overlooked part of U.S.
history.</span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11.5pt;">The story
itself is both entertaining and inspiring. Yasu's character is likable from the
beginning and you constantly feel both her fear and courage as she struggles
against an unfair system that has deemed her and her family as guilty and
treated as criminals, regardless of whether or not they are actually guilty.
“Yasu's Quest” is a testament to the human spirit, the best and worst America
has had to offer, and to the American citizens unjustly imprisoned during the
1940s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11.5pt;">It is rare for
a piece of historical fiction to be so relevant to today's society, especially
when written for a young adult audience. “Yasu's Quest” does not only that, but
it also provides a well-written adventure story that also introduces readers to
a very dark part of American history. </span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">“Yasu's Quest: A Tale of
Triumph” is a written triumph. There is no better way to describe a book that
functions well on so many levels and be so meaningful. This really is a
well-done piece that I think will entertain and inform its readers. If you are
considering a historical fiction title to read this is definitely the one. I
give “Yasu's Quest: A Tale of Triumph” by Diane Dettmann five out of five
stars. The only caveat here is that, as I already mentioned, this is clearly a
YA title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Author Diane Dettman's Bio: <span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488902603956_15809" style="font-size: 13pt;">Diane Dettmann is the author of award-winning <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488902603956_17128">Courageous Footsteps: A WWII Novel</i>. She has also published two memoirs, <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488902603956_15822">Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow’s Story of Love, Loss and Renewal</i>, and <i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488902603956_17129">Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants.</i> Diane is a contributing author for the national Women’s Voices for Change organization in New York City and is currently working on the sequel to <i>Yasu's Quest.</i> For more information go to Diane's website at <a href="http://www.outskirtspress.com/yasu">http://www.outskirtspress.com/yasu</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488902603956_6754" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20pt;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488902603956_6753"><span style="font-size: small;">By Don Hagelberg</span></span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488902603956_6720" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20pt;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488902603956_6719" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488902603956_6714" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each collected issue of "Free" contains articles in English which we, poor undisciplined outliers can understand with a little effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Photo articles," "Poems," "Short Stories," Straight out articles." Wait and watch your hungry eyes eat the article alive. A video portraying the celebration of New Years Day in 2017? It waits for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do you deserve all of the goodness inside the "Free" magazine? Take some time and read and watch in all the way through.</span></div>
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Finnish News from South Florida!<o:p></o:p></h3>
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Following are excerpts taken from the February 23 edition of
the <i>Coastal/Greenacres Observer </i>that serves local towns in Palm Beach
County which may be of interest to Finnish-Americans nationwide:<o:p></o:p></div>
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In mid-February, Boynton Beach Mayor, Steven Grant, formally
announced the establishment of a Sister City relationship with Rauma, Finland.<br />
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The Speaker of the Eduskunta, the Parliament of Finland,
Maria Lohela, was at the ceremony on February 17 to accept the Sister City
Proclamation from Mayor Grant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finland,
which is celebrating its centennial this year, has one of the most successful
education systems in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a
high-tech country which is known for building many of the luxury cruise ships
based in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, said Esa Jokela, President of the Finnish
American Chamber of commerce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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Finnish-Americans have had a significant role in the
development of Palm Beach County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are more people of Finnish descent in this area than anywhere else in the
United States, says Peter Makila, the Honorary Consul of Finland in Palm Beach
County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also attending the ceremony was
Ambassador Manu Virtamo, Consul General of Finland, who flew in from New York
for the occasion.<o:p></o:p><br />
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“Sister Cities can learn a lot from each other,” says Mayor
Grant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I'm looking forward to going to
Finland and meeting my counterpart in Rauma, Mayor Kari Koski.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my goals is to set up a pen-pal
program for the 21<sup>st</sup> century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rauma is the third oldest city in Finland so there's a lot of history
but also plenty of modern thinking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
example, I'll be in Rauma during the Electronic<br />
Music Festival in June.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the birthplace of Darude, the Finnish
musical genius behind platinum-selling hit single <i>“Sandstorm”,</i> it's
understandable that the Finns love electronic music.”<o:p></o:p><br />
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President Eisenhower championed the concept of Sister Cities
in 1956, when he envisioned that fostering bonds between people from different
communities around the world would create a path for peace and prosperity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sixty-one years later, thanks to Mayor Grant,
Boynton Beach is paving the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only
two other communities in Palm Beach County have Sister Cities in Finland – Lake
Worth, which has such a relationship with Lappeenranta and Lantana whose Sister
City is Lapua.<o:p></o:p><br />
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We will keep you posted on the latest news from our area of
the country from time to time and wish all<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>readers of this newsletter a wonderful summer ahead whether you are
staying here in the United States or are visiting relatives back in Finland. </div>
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<span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s
whisper time,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">after
daylight, before sunrise,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">when
birds with the largest eyes sing first.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
meditate in silence, listen for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">gaps
in sound and thought.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">From
this perch, above Camp</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Creek Canyon,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">you
imagine Chief Joseph’s horses, women in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">blankets.</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your eyes move along their route and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">you
realize you are not the first to cry here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then
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brings you back to a glorious<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">September
morning in Michigan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
are in the rear seat of a four-seat Cessna</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">over
Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">when
a voice from the Minneapolis Tower says,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">“For
the three commercial jets scheduled to land in <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">Minneapolis,
either land at Sawyer Field in Marquette or<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">you
will be shot out of the sky.”</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
remind yourself that you are safe here and return to<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">you
own familiar verse from long ago,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">“...a
bird with the ability to sing more than one song <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">has
a greater chance of survival.”</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You
are back to the Zumwalt Prairie where a white horse<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">rises
out of Monument Pasture and <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">finds
his way to your perch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">How
does he always know where to find you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">with early peas and young carrots<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">of cranberry pudding<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">of lilies of the valley<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">heather and cornflowers<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">of cloudless skies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Knit during long Nordic nights<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">under northern lights<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">the aurora borealis<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">dancing electric lights<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">orange<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">red<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">blue<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">yellow<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">green<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">needles dance<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">weaving warmth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Under summer’s midnight sun<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">by azure lakeside<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">with birch trees<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">blueberries<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">and wild strawberries with milk<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">of gooseberries and currants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Loons calling across a lake’s stillness<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">calling me to return<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">like the swallows<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">that know their way back<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">to the fragrance of pine trees<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">and moss on granite boulders<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">to grandmother’s summer cottage lakeside<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">and pancakes with strawberry jam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">--</span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<h3>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Sukat</span></span></h3>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Siskoni kutoo minulle v<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>rikk<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>it<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>
sukkia</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">kes<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>keitosta
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">varhaisherneista ja porkkanoista<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">marjapuurosta<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">kieloista<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">kanesvasta ja ruiskukista<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">ja pivett<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ö</span>m<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>st<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>
taivaasta.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kudottu pitkin<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>
pohjois<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ö</span>in<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">pohjoisvalojen <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">aurora borealis<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">tanssivien s<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>hk<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ö</span>valojen alla<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">oranssi<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">punanen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">sininen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">keltanen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">vihrea<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">puikot tanssivat<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">kutoen l<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>mmint<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kes<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>n
keskiy<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ö</span>n alla<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">taivaansinisen j<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>rven
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ää</span>rell<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">koivupuista<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">mustikoista<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">villimansikoista maidon kanssa<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">karviaisista ja viinimarjoista.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kuikat kutsuvat j<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>rven
hiljaisuuden takaa<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">kutsuvat minua takaisin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">niinkuin p<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ää</span>skysi<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">jotka osaavat palata<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">pet<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>j<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>n tuoksuun<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">ja sammalpeitteisen graniittikallion p<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ää</span>ll<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">e</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">iso<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>idin
kes<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>m<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ö</span>kille j<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ä</span>rven
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">ää</span>reen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">ja pannukakuille mansikkahillon kanssa.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div>
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<h3>
We immigrated from Finland 60 years ago </h3>
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">By<strong> </strong>Eero Sorila</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was bitterly cold in Vilppula Finland
during the winter of 1957, when our family of eight left by train for Helsinki.
Our neighbours and the villagers wondered about the purpose of our trip, and of
all things why in the middle of winter. It was a private matter and our parents
did not blow their horn about it. We children followed confidently where
we were led. The child's will was in his father's pocket. It was exciting
to travel by train. The destination wasn't important.</span> </span></tt></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></tt></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Very
often<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the best part of travel is the
journey itself. Arrival at the destination may prove to be a disappointment.
After our arrival in Helsinki, on the top floor of a stone building, the bubble
burst. Father announced with determination, "We are here for a medical
check-up before moving to Canada." For me, the 12 year old, first-born of
our family, the news was catastrophic, surely a disappointment. I turned
towards the window and gazed down at the Old Church park. Bitter tears streamed
down my cheeks. At that moment I realized I was leaving all my friends and
my native land forever. These desperate thoughts kept hammering
inside my head.</span> </span></tt></span></span></span><br />
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ub4FNbQesmU/WL7eGfjakMI/AAAAAAAAAls/4jRK1QnChMMviQUTMdCsBK-wqp6Z07zFACEw/s1600/Sorila%252BFamily%252Bin%252BCanada%2Bjpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ub4FNbQesmU/WL7eGfjakMI/AAAAAAAAAls/4jRK1QnChMMviQUTMdCsBK-wqp6Z07zFACEw/s320/Sorila%252BFamily%252Bin%252BCanada%2Bjpg.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo from the Sorila Family Album</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><tt><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><strong>Can’t
breathe</strong></span></tt><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></tt></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">
</span></span>
<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Reykjavik, Iceland we fuelled the
plane. Our next stop was Gander, Newfoundland. It was bitterly cold, with a
freezing wind. We had to walk a long way to the airport restaurant for
breakfast. During the walk, my four year old brother, Asko, tugged at my
mother's skirt and shouted,” help ! I can't breathe!" A strange drink was
served with the meal. It was a glassful of awful-tasting tomato juice. We had
never even seen such drink in Finland. Next, we were supposed to land in
Toronto, but a dense fog prevented us. Instead we landed in Buffalo U.S.A and
from there took a Greyhound bus to Toronto. The airline put us up overnight in
the luxurious Royal York Hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The food
and service were first-class, but we immigrants were dead tired. All we
wanted to do was sleep</span>.</span> </span></span></tt> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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</span></span>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
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</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We landed at Sudbury airport on April 4<span style="font-size: small;"><sup>th</sup>
1957. On the way to this nickel mining city of 40,000 we had time to look at
the landscapes of our new homeland. Imitation brick made of tar paper
covered the houses. TV antennas stuck up from the roofs looking like a
jumble of rakes. Very few people had even seen a television in Finland at
that time. Snow failed to cover up the lifeless austerity. Each flake melted
against the black rocks like butter in a frying pan. Mining has started there
in 1886. For decades the nickel-ore smelters had spewed pollution into the
air,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>killing plant life in the surrounding
area. Hence the bare, black rocks. </span></span></span></tt></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The journey
itself seemed to have been the true adventure, best part of our new
experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></tt><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Finland I
had been in the fourth grade. In Canada I was put back to grade
one. I was a head taller than the others, but helpless as a baby who
couldn't speak.</span></span></tt></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><tt><b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></b></tt>
<tt><b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chicken
coop home</span> </span></span></b></tt><b><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span></b><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our first rental home was an upstairs suite in
an old house with only two small rooms for a family of eight.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></tt></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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the family. He bought a lot on St. Charles Lake Road. During constructon, we
rented a place right beside our lot, from a kind Italian neighbour. It was a
"remodelled" chicken coop, but the location was perfect for us. There
was no more clucking of hens, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">instead frogs held evening concerts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></tt></div>
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Father worked around the clock in the evenings and on Saturdays building the
house. His health broke down under such a heavy workload and was hospitalised
for six months. In addition to maintaining a large family, the cost of building
a new home stretched the family budget to its limits. Mother went to work in a
bakery. I, as the eldest child in the family, collected pop bottles from
ditches and was paid two cents a piece for them. Many immigrants from
Finland had arrived to Canada in the 1950’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As Finnish immigrants we all belonged to the same family. We received
much love and caring from the members in our Finnish Church. It felt that our
immigrant friends<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hearts were white in
contrast to the surrounding black rocks. The heart of the steel company owner
where father had worked was not made of steel either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While father was sick, a large cardboard box
</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">appeared from time to time behind our door. It was a shipment of food from
fafther’s former employer. </span></span></span></tt><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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Smiles </span></span></b></tt><b><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span></b><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">After living four years in Sudbury, life began
to feel quite comfortable. Father had recovered from his heart ailment. We all
got by in English, lived in our own house, and had a roomy American car. It was
a 1953 Plymouth. </span></span></tt><br />
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I look back over the 60 years of immigrant life in Canada, my heart is filled
with gratitude. Even tomato juice tastes good now, and the black rocks of
Sudbury have turned green.</span></span></tt><br />
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Finland. The country of the northern lights, white midsummer nights and thousands
of lakes dererve to be celebrated specifically during this year of Finland’s</span></span></tt></div>
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<tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong>100</strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><sup>th</sup>
year of independence</strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></tt></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><tt><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My brother Asko who shouted </span></tt><tt><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">“ I can’t breath “
has expressed his feelings about our arrival and life in a new land with the following poem below.</span></tt></span></span> </span><br />
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Sorila</strong> a history graduate from the University of British Columbia has published
a book<o:p></o:p></span></span></tt></span></div>
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adventure travel around the world. <i>Green Mattress Under the Stars</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is available from Xlibris.<o:p></o:p></span></span></tt></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">By Asko Sorila</span><br />
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Welcomed:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>no relatives yet among a family of believers we stand</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Family:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">new sights style words and phases</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Thankful:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>our experiences won’t ring hollow</span></span></span></span><br />
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since I heard of him being the newest member of a relative’s family, his given
name never seemed to fit. The backstory was that he was the ‘new pussy’, Nupee
for short. It was immediately clear to me that he wasn’t consulted in this
choice. Obviously he knew his own real cat-name: our attempts could be close,
maybe even a lucky guess .He’d tell me if I was quick enough to hear it. I
think I’m homing in on it, but it is as elusive as his intent. However, I can
tell he’s entertained by my quest for his catness, stunning Kreskin telepath of
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a diffident fellow, his cool and penetrating gaze belies a supreme detachment
that misses nothing, an opinionated mirror of the moment. If he were human, I’d
say his philosophy was set. Like Gore Vidal, he knows it matters not a whit
what others think of him. The only true matter of any consequence is what he
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he changed homes to my place, I could tell he was genuinely amused by my
constant bouncing of suitable names off of him. He’s the silver-grey of
moon-dust or rain-sheets dropping from dark nimbus towers, each foot
cloud-white. His sphinx’s gaze is inset with rock-still peridot eyes; the world
in front looks back from those photographic depths. “Cloud” is a near miss by
one syllable though it paints his spirit. “Nube”, Spanish for cloud is what
seems like an obvious fallback but the sound is as lacking as the original. “Yeats”
gained traction for me for several weeks because the lines “cast a cold eye on
life, on death” always spring to mind under his gaze, yet the same syllabic
deficit sank its’ hopes, too.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Snow Leopard and the Silver Surfer fit: an ethereal being that trims the sky
above tree lines, skims the misty edge. A true shaman of the Siberian old
school, some Evenk Tungus Lion-Bird off greyly at sight’s edge, multiply fluent
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romps with abandon with my gnarly shorthair Cochise. “Kesey” is apt because of
his vast good humor that swaths a serious mind that knows that ‘art is
dangerous’. He gives as good as he gets then breaks to attend each next notion:
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those eyes, pale emerald peridots, bottomless and present; no shields or
barriers exist for them. Am I in front of them or trapped behind them? They are
two tourmaline lasers pressing into my space. That’s why this week he is Ingo,
my name for this nameless seer. Mr. Ingo Swann of America, a great clear light,
now shed of body and instant present. He could go anywhere and see anything. He
taught our nation’s scouts and guards to peer through any walls, to see an
enemy’s plans. He made our kind smarter and safer. This seems very close to
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constant sparkle in either’s eyes might just be the facets of each gem’s cut or
maybe a tamped muting of some starburst at their core. Birds of a feather,
their interest is anything, everywhere. Nothing’s remote; all is noted by an
unleashed superpower of the biomind. And to be observed by either is to be
moved by either. So….what would Ingo name him?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,sans-serif;">Kippis is still accepting submissions for the Fall 2016 issue of the journal. We're pretty well set on fiction for the issue, but would like to see some essay-memoir-personal reflection pieces as well as - especially - some poetry. Give in to that crazy urge to submit something! Submission guidelines can be found here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.finnala.com/Kippis_subs.html&source=gmail&ust=1470346896825000&usg=AFQjCNGqkmzQaYdKRQBS_wF6EyvL7mSpLw" href="http://www.finnala.com/Kippis_subs.html" target="_blank">http://www.finnala.com/Kippis_<wbr></wbr>subs.html</a>. Send your work to gkwuori at hotmail dot com.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-CA">Kaarina
Brooks, writing romance novels under her pen name, Karen Rossi, has launched
her own publishing company, <b>Wisteria
Publications</b>. Her first project will be to publish the print version of her
novel, <i>No Home for My Heart</i>, which is
already out as an e-book, published by Etopia Press. </span><span lang="EN-CA"> It is available </span>on Amazon, Barnes and
Noble, Kobo, bookstore (Apple), and Google Play, as well as All Romance eBooks
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Lieutenant)</span><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, by Kari Kallonen
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Knight of the Mannerheim Cross Olavi Alakulppi won a
cross-country skiing world championship gold medal in Zakopane, in 1939, and
used his skills to benefit him as a guerrilla lieutenant in the ranks of
Special Detachment Sau, as he pursued Soviet partisans that attacked Lapland
villages. He tried to get the UN War Crimes Commission to investigate the
brutal murder of women and children for many years before these war-time
atrocities were generally recognized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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suspicion of a weapons cache case. Alakulppi escaped from the guards and fled
to Sweden, where he stayed like other Marttinen's men seeking a new future in
the United States. A patriotic man became a man without a native land. Captain
Olavi Alakulppi rose to US Army lieutenant colonel, and also won the nation’s championship
in cross-country skiing and participated in the Korean War.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Vesa died in Vietnam, and son Seppo died as a baby during the war years. A third
Alakulppi son was buried in anonymity in the United States. The father saw his
daughter for the first time when the child was three years old.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Guerrilla Lieutenant is the story of an illustrious athlete,
and through forced circumstances, became a brave soldier. Kari Kallonen, who
received this year’s war-book award, has written about Finnish soldiers in the
Vietnam War as well as in the ranks of the Foreign Legion. This is his ninth informational
book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dettmann releases the sequel to her award winning book, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Courageous Footsteps: A WWII Novel</i>!</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Outskirts Press released <i>Yasu's Quest </i>on July 19, 2016. It is available from booksellers worldwide, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble. You can find information about the book at the following address: <a href="http://www.outskirtspress.com/yasu">www.outskirtspress.com/yasu</a>. </span></div>
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1944, as World War II rages on overseas, a feeling of defeat looms over eighteen-year-old
Yasu Sakamoto. Three years of her young life have wasted away in a Japanese
internment camp in eastern California. Imprisoned by barbwire and military
guards, she yearns for freedom and lifelong dreams waiting for her beyond the
fence. In this skillfully woven coming-of-age story, Yasu’s journey began in
Diane Dettmann’s book, <i>Courageous
Footsteps: A WWII Novel</i>. In the sequel, Diane carries readers into the next
phase of Yasu Sakamoto’s life. Bombarded with barriers of discrimination and
prejudice, Yasu realizes— like the barbwire fences—there will always be
obstacles in her life that take courage, determination and sometimes the
support of others to overcome. </span></div>
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created in her accomplished work, <i>Courageous
Footsteps. </i>In this sequel, she beautifully captures Yasu Sakamoto’s
poignant struggle to survive and thrive amid the pro-American hubbub that was
coupled with overtly anti-Japanese propaganda of the time. With the help of a
mentor strong enough to stand with her against those rabid anti-Japanese
sentiments, Yasu perseveres to overcome and extricate herself from the terrible
grip of fate.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>—</i>Beth L. Virtanen, Ph.D. President,
Finnish North-American Literature Association; Professor and Assistant Program
Director, South University, Online<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that celebrates the courage of the human spirit and its ability not only to
rise above war and prejudice, but to overcome and heal. A testimony to the
Japanese Americans and the hardships they faced after WWII. Inspiring,
entertaining and written from the heart.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Free of
the barbed wire confines of the internment camp, Yasu could not escape
injustice. Or did she? Reader, beware of a personal call from Yasu to make life
better for others<i>. Yasu’s Quest: A
Tale of Triumph</i> is a poignant story of courage and determination with
unmistakable relevance <span style="color: #000078;">today</span>.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Diane Dettmann is the author of <i>Courageous
Footsteps: A WWII Novel</i>, a Pacific Rim Beach Festival winner,<i> </i>and<i>
Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow’s Story of Love, Loss and Renewal</i>. She is
also the co-author of <i>Miriam Daughter of
Finnish Immigrants</i> and a contributing author for the national Women’s
Voices for Change organization in New York City. Diane’s books are available
online at Amazon, Barnes &Noble and many other online bookstores; also
available at various independent bookstores. For more information visit Diane’s
website at http://www.outskirtspress.com/yasu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The Honorary Finnish Consul of Hawaii Katja Silveró visited New
Finland, Saskatchewan, in August 2016. Her relative David Kautonen was the first
Finnish settler to arrive in what became a large Finnish settlement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> This is interesting to me as I grew
up on that pioneer farm. In 1888 my great grandfather Johan Kustaa Lauttamus
and his wife Sana Liisa Isosomppi funded David Kautonen from their home town of
Kauhava, Finland to find a homestead for him and his family. Kautonen bought an
existing homestead from a Swedish settler that already had a sod house,
some land in crops and a team of oxen. Kautonen took the next 1/4 section as
his homestead. Juhan and his large family arrived in 1890. They wrote back
to Finland urging people to join them. Immigration officials helped: In 1900 a
C.K. Henderickson in Ottawa wrote to Immigration officials, ‘Send us more
Finnish settlers. They are literate, hard working and will make good citizens.
This is the North West Territories and conditions here are harsh and any
English speaking individual with a good sized capital might starve where as
Finns with limited means seem to be striving.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The settlers arrived by train to
Whitewood. They would walk the 25 miles to the Lauttamus homestead and live
with the family until the settlers helped them make a log cabin on their own
homestead. Emil Mustama, in 1891 was the first baby born in New Finland
in the sauna at the Lauttamus homestead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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died his wife Amalia Nahkala married my widower great grandfather Johan
Lauttamus. They lived in log cabin behind son Gus Lauttamus farmhouse as was
the custom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The New Finland community was
centred on and around the Lauttamus homestead: church and hall were built
on the land. The New Finland School 1/2 mile down the road. The New Finland
Cemetery is just West of the Lauttamus farmhouse. The first to be buried was
Vilhelmiina Lauttamus (Myllymaki) and her infant son John in 1896.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Life in the large settlement
continued uninterrupted until the 1950's when more and more young people left
for higher educations and better jobs. The rural schools were closed and
children bussed to school. The New Finland Hall was closed and moved away.
Dozens of homestead houses stand vacant on land bought by local farmers.</span><span style="color: #0003ff; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Lauttamus farmhouse is vacant but the homestead is
still owned by Lauttamus descendants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Today the New Finland Lutheran
Church is still the centre of the community. The two Cemeteries are kept in
good condition. They hold a Juhannus celebration every year which is well
attended not just by local people but people coming ‘home’ for it from as far
away as Thailand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The history book ‘Life in the
New Finland Woods’ was published by us descendants in 1982. The Editor Nancy
Mattson wrote a well received literary poem: ‘Maria Breaks her Silence’ about
her ancestor widow Maria Nahkala Kautonen who married my great
grandfather widower Johan Kustaa Lauttamus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>A Languid Summer Evening</b></h4>
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by Anita Erola</h4>
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In the balmy</div>
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the soft breeze<o:p></o:p></div>
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the hammock <o:p></o:p></div>
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flora’s sweet aroma<o:p></o:p></div>
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clouds drift slowly<o:p></o:p></div>
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deep into the lake water<o:p></o:p></div>
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I go to sleep<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">VIULUSEPPÄ NATANAEL</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">by Mirjam Rand</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kun astun viulu
sepän pajaan, taustana soi suomalaista pop musiikkia, ja tuuletin hyrrää
omaa lauluaan. Tummatukkainen Natanael
tarkastaa työn alla olevan viulun sisään. Hän käyttää pientä kengän nauhan
kokoista LED valoa. Valo hohtaa mutta ei
lämmitä instrumentin sisäpuolta. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“On tärkeä ettei liimat ja lakat pehmene,”
selittää, Natanael, V.A.Hill Fine Strings Ltd. työpajassaan Calgaryssa. Viulun
kansi kiiltää valojen alla. Ympärillä on monenlaisia vaahterapuusta tehtyjä
osia, puunauloja, lakkaa ja ihan erinomaisia ty</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ö</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">kaluja. </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Viulun
uudistus tapahtuu taitavissa mestarin käsissä.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eikä ihme koska Natanael ei ainoastaan rakenna
viuluja mutta tuntee instrumentin hyvin, koska on ollut lapsesta asti sen
soittaja. Äitinsä Marja, ikooni taiteilija , harrasti myös viulun soittoa.
Olihan isäkin, Petros Iwao Sasaki, my<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: normal;">ö</span>s viulun soittaja ja ikoonien maalaaja.
Petros oli nuorena miehenä tullut Japanista Suomeen. Arkki Piispa Johannes
Paavali oli tutustunut häneen Kreikassa ja
oli kutsunut Sasakin Suomivierailulle. Ikoonitaide luokalla Petros tapasi
Marjan ja he rakastuivat. Savolainen Marja ja samurai sukuinen Petros
perustivat kodin jossa taide ja musiikki kasvoivat. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kasvoi myos kolme
miehen alkua joille tietysti opetettiin viulun soittoa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Marja äiti oli ensimmäinen opettaja kolmevuotiaalle Natanaelle. Joskus hänen oli
lahjottava leluilla poikansa harjoittelemaan. Kun Natanael täytti neljä vuotta
Marja oli sitä mieltä, että Kuopion Konservatooriossa poika edistyisi nopeammin
kuin kotona. Mentiin yhdessä, poika ja äiti, opettajien arvosteltaviksi. Ei
poika uskaltanut soittaa herrojen edessä. Ulos vain! Konservatoorion
rappusilla, hän soitti kuin virtuooso. Soitto kuului sisällä olevien opettajien
korviin asti. “Osaathan soittaa”, kuului konttorista. Viisi vuotiaana Natanael
yhdistyi Kuopion Musiikki Conservatorioon. Zoja Istomina, Venäläisen
viulukoulun mestari , ja Kuopion Musiikki Conservatoorion johtaja, osasi
taidokkaasti johtaa Natanaelia niin että viulun soitosta tuli pojalle kuin
jokapäiväinen elämisen ehto. </span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Esiintyminen on pidättäytyvälle Suomalaiselle
vaikeaa. Istominan alaisena nuorukainen kehittyi terveeseen kurinalaisuuteen,
ja luotamuksellinen suhde kasvoi samalla oppilaan ja opettajan välille. Se ei
ole itsestäänselvyys taidealalla joka vaatii kaiken. Hyvin edistyvälle ja hienokäytöksiselle
oppilaalle avautui ovet Suomen arvokkaimpaan musiikkiopin ahjoon, Sibelius
Akadeemiaan. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Natanael oli silloin yhdeksän vuotias.</span><br />
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tuleva ura sai alkunsa. Viikolla Natanael kävi
Kuopion kansakoulua ja viikonloput hän opiskeli Helsingissa Sibelius
Akademiassa. Kaverit koulussa kiusasivat poikaa jolla ei ollut aikaa pallopeliin, koska kaikki hänen vapaa-aikansa kului vielun kimpussa. Kiusaus muuttui
kunnioitukseen, kun Natanaelin viulusta lähtevät sävelet pehmittivät ilkivaltaisten
poikien tunteet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sibelius Akademiassa opetettiin tunnetusti
parhaat ja tarkat metoodit venaläis tyyliseen
viulun soittoon. Natanael muistaa hyvin kuinka avulias oli Hagai Shaham,
mestari viulisti Israelista. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tämä viisas soittaja opetti ettei soiton ydin
ollutkaan vain teknisesti täydellinen soitto. Tärkeampää oli että musiikki sai
syntyä sydämestä.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Turun Orkesterin johtaja,selitti nuorukaiselle kuinka tärke</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px;">ä</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px;">ä</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> esiintymisessä
oli mielen harjoitus. Se että Bezrodny hallitsi viulunsoiton jossa tekninen ja
tunteellinen taso pääsiv</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.12px;">ä</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">t täydellisesti oikeuksiinsa teki suuren vaikutuksen
Natanaeliin. Vaikka Bezrodny oli mailmankuulu soittaja ja opettaja hän ei
koskaan kerskaillut soittotaidollaan. Tästä ominaisuudesta Natanael otti mallia
ja edistyi teini ikäiseksi viuluneroksi.</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tuntui kuin maa olisi auennut Natanaelin jalkojen
alla lohikäärmeen kidan tavoin, kun rakas professori Bezrodny kuoli yhtäkkiä. Oli vuosi 1997 ja Natanael
oli juuri hakeutumassa Sibelius Akademian jatko-opinnoille. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Silloin
kahdeksantoistavuotiaana muut professorit eivät tunteneet Natanaelia kuten
Bezrodny olisi hänet tuntenut. Aikuisoppilaaksi katsottuna häntä ei hyväksytty
jatko-opinnoille. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Sitten sain kutsun armeijaan",
Natanaeli kertoi. Olkapää oli jo
kipeytynyt niin kuin jokaisella vakavalla viulunsoittajalla. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Armeijassa
kannettin painavia reppuja lisäten olkapään rasitusta. Tajusin sotaharjoituksissa, että elämän urani
viulun soittajana oli haudattava. Silloin välähti mieleen että voisinhan tulla
viulusepäksi!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Armeija palveluksken jälkeen hän haki ja sai
paikan Englannissa, Newarkin Viulunteko koulussa. Koulutus johon kului paljon
varoja kesti neljä vuotta.
Sotaveteraanit Suomessa, joitten laulujuhlissa Natanael oli usein soittanut
ilmaiseksi, auttoivat häntä
rahallisesti. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Natanael uskoo karmaan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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päässeensä viulumestarin tasolle. Pomonsa, Vicky, tietää kuinka kullan arvoinen
Natanael on kun tällä mestarilla on niin erikoinen ymmärrys viuluista. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ei ihme.
Natanael ei ole ainoastaan nero viulisti. Hän on myös vertaansa vailla oleva
viuluseppä! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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agile, is intently working on a violin as I walk into his workshop in Calgary,
Alberta. Finnish pop tunes play in the background. A whirring fan provides a
tune of its own. Bits and pieces of violin components, and there are
surprisingly many, are neatly stacked in small cubby holes around his work
space. A round bright light, suspended immediately above, is reflected on the
shiny belly of a violin. Carefully resting on a soft towel, the precious
instrument is being refitted with new parts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As a Master Luthier, Nataniel knows not
only about violin construction but also the music that can come from such an
instrument. And it’s no surprise, for Nat, as he likes to be called, has been
playing the violin since he was three years of age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the early 70’s, Petros Iwao Sasaki, a
descendant of Samurais, a student of Eastern
Orthodox theology and an icon artist, left Japan to travel around Europe.
Equipped with a diplomatic passport, Petros arrived in Greece where he met with
fellow Orthodox believers. Paavali, Archbishop of the Independent Finnish
Orthodox Church was there and invited Petros to visit Finland. So it was that
Petros found himself in Finland, enjoying a painting class with fellow icon
artists. Among the artists,one young woman caught Petros’ eye. She was Marja, a
devout Orthodox believer and a painter of icons from the Savo region of
Finland. Much to the chagrin of the church elders who had wished the brilliant
young theologian to become a monk, Petros married Marja. In time, three sons
were born; Jaso in 1976, Natanael in 1980 and Simeon in 1984. As both parents
were violinists, it was only natural that the boys would begin lessons early. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mother Marja was Nat’s first teacher. Toys
were used as bribes to get little three year old Nat to practice his violin
playing. This worked, and Nat and his violin became inseparable. At four years
of age, Marja was sure that her son’s virtuosity would win over the judges and
that he would be accepted into Kuopio’s Music School. But Nat refused to comply
and walked out into the stairwell, a safe distance from those fearful judges.
There, on the stairs, Nat opened his small violin case, took out his child
sized bow and began to play. The judges, up in their room, could hear the most
beautiful notes echoing through the hallway. They were impressed. So, at five
years of age Nat was accepted into the Kuopio Conservatory of Music. Zoja
Istomina, a violin virtuoso in the Russian School of violin, performed all over
the world, and was the director of the Kuopio Conservatory. He took a keen
interest in Nat, encouraging the young player and teaching him the techniques
of performance. The young boy flourished under the excellent tutelage of
Istomina and, at age nine, was accepted to study with the best and most
prestigious school of music in Finland-The Sibelius Academy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Schools are not easy places for child
geniuses, and Nat was required to attend the Kuopio Public School while
studying simultaneously at the Sibelius Academy. He was often teased by his class
mates. However, name calling quickly turned to admiration when Nat would play a
violin solo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Sasaki family were generous in sharing
Nat’s talents with their community. War veteran events were a favourite for
Nat. He would take out his bow and and the crowds would be mesmerized by the
music that flowed from that violin. Many of Marja’s family members had served
in the war, including a grandmother who belonged to the LOTTA group, a women’s
volunteer brigade. Nat’s violin playing, free of charge, was one way the family
could show their gratitude for the brave Finns who had fought in the war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Instructors were key in teaching Nat the
best techniques in the Russian School of violin. Hagai Shaham, a music
professor from Israel, remains one of Nat’s favourites. It was this maestro
from Israel, eventually becoming the ‘Grand Daddy of the Sibelius Academy’, who
taught Nat that music comes not only from skilled technical craftsmanship but
more importantly, from the heart. Another teacher was Igor Bezrodny, an
intellectual man, who patiently explained to Nat the reasons for the acute
mental training that is so important for musical performance. Bezrodny’s
playing was technically perfect yet his music had a freshness of feeling, light
and warmth. He was never arrogant. This is what Nat wanted, yet found that, at
seventeen,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“When you constantly tell yourself that
you are the best it’s easy to get an inflated ego.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bezrodny also instructed Nat in learning the
stories behind each musical piece. Like a sponge, young Nat absorbed Bezrodny’s
teaching. Nat’s music, which was already technically brilliant, now had ‘soul’.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nat’s musical career, which was thriving
under Bezrodny’s tutelage, received a blow when in 1997 his beloved teacher
suddenly died. Having studied in the Sibelius Academy since age nine, Nat now
was required to apply to the Academy again, as an 18 year old adult. A teacher
recommendation and a test would easily secure a place at the Academy. However,
the replacement teacher did not recommend Nat and so the 18 year old prodigy
found himself 13<sup>th</sup> on a list of 12 accepted to the Sibelius Academy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then came the call for compulsory military
training which all Finnish men must complete. Nat pauses as he relives this
time in his life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“I had never really conditioned my body
for exercise as I was practicing violin for eight hours a day. I experienced
the sore shoulder that every violin player has. Add to this the rigours of
heavy carrying in the army and I knew that my career was at the crossroads.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Serving with the Northern Karelia Brigade,
Nat was standing one day on guard and alone in the thick woods. Like a flash of
lightning, an idea burst on the 19 year old soldier. Why not become a violin
maker?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After completing six months of military
training, Nat applied and was accepted at the Newark Violin School of England. Four
years of training at Newark gave Nat the title ‘luthier’, or violin maker. An
opportunity to practice his craft opened up in Canada at the V.A. Hill Fine Strings Ltd. In Calgary,
Alberta. Starting at the bottom, Nat quickly proved to Vicky, the owner of the
business, that here was a young man with extraordinary talent. Customizing,
modifying and restoring violins, Nat is now in his 12<sup>th</sup> year at
V.A.Hill Fine Strings. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nat attributes his skill on the violin to
his parents who demanded him to practice, practice and practice some more. He
owes his love of the violin to the teachers who encouraged and supported him
even when he was an egotistical 17 year old! And what about those years at
Newark? An old army veteran friend had helped fund those years of learning.
Above all, Nat sincerely believes that his diagnosed ADHD (Attention Deficit
Hyperactive Disorder) syndrome helps him to be innovative. His mind, running 24-7
helps him to see the minute nuances of a musical instrument that others may
miss. Nat lives and breathes violins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his name as a violin maker and eventually start his own violin school. We wish
you all the best! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>Mirjam Rand </b>is a freelance photographer and writer who lives in Innisfail, Alberta, Canada. She and her brother, Eero of Vancouver, co-authored “American Monuments,” a coffee table book about 25 of America’s iconic monuments.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Last Swim</span></b></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">by Anita
Erola</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Before I grow
too old to remember</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">let me go for
one last swim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">in the
lake of my childhood memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Barefoot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll feel
the sun’s warmth under my feet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">as I walk
the granite slope to the water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">To my
right <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">will be
the pink and grey boulder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">where I
sat like a princess and read my first books.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">On my left<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">the majestic
old birch tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">its branches
drooping ever lower over the water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Step by
step into the lake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll walk with
slow purpose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">to connect
with the familiar past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll open
my palms to the surface<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">to touch
and feel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">and greet each
gentle ripple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">When to my
waist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll lift
my arms up overhead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">to spring
up and dive in with a childhood splash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">And I will
swim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">and swim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">and swim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">From a
distance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll look
back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">at the familiar
cottage on the slope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Grandpa Kurt
had it painted red<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">to easily spot
it from afar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">when he
rowed back after checking his fishing nets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The
cottage is no longer the color of my childhood<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I heard the
cousins painted it yellow <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I wonder
if they know why it was red.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Grandpa’s wooden
boat was painted a soft green<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">with red
trim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">no doubt
it has since decayed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I learned
to row it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">to a
smooth glide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">as the
water sparkled in the oars’ wake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Each
summer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">my
grandmother and I made our way across<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">to pick berries
on the lake’s distant side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">It’s said
you can never go home again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">yet, my
childhood summers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">still
sparkle in my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Let me go
home again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">for one last
swim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">in its
memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">There, I
will swim <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">and swim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">and swim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">And I will
swim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">and swim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">and not
look back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How Many Footsteps in This World?</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">by Charles Peltosalo</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I. You tout your years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">You cite your time,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">You drum the loose brown drum of prior birth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Claim insight deep from your superior time on Earth;</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">But, may I pause to ask you:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many times have your feet touched this receding ground?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many breaths have your lungs so far spent?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">What's the count of the times your calm heart has beat in the added days</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">since you've been around?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How fiery your gaze, how unswerving your intent?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many birds have seen your eyes?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many trees have passed them by?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many dusks and dawns the sun's spun round,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Your gaze reflecting rose-red skies?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many rocks and limbs have grasped your hands?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many flowers have you smelled, for just how long, in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> how many far off different lands?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many lakes, springs, and rivers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Ponds, oceans, streams have your passionate arms embraced by faithful</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> swims when swept away by love you felt when face to face?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many circuits of arms flung flexed like beating wings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> to ply your way through the glassy smooth?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many miles through wet and wave has your older casing moved?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How fast beat your faithful heart when for seasons your obedience</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> made the daily prayer,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Carried you like the water's son, swimming long and weightless there?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many heartbeats did it take to reach those peaks in such short time?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How many footsteps did you spend in days and weeks and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> months of climbs?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">How fast your breath in such short space to take your feet from</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> here to there?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">A day's allotment I will use in one hour's burst of prayer.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">II. In my short time, I've heard these lungs sing for joy lost thousands times,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> lost in seasons millions long,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Felt these feet beat a fevered dance of distance, speed, and mountains</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> climbed, and felt the muscles bristle strong,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Heard this heart beat a frantic drum more days than it has not, and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Yearn to burst like horses run;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">A song of sweat and flight it's sung and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">By its greater work has earned its wisdom staying young.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">If years are measured by the day,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Then wiser in this world you'll be, the calendar will say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">But if days are measured by raw life that fills the hours of our time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> contained in their small course,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">l've filled my smaller stretch of years with more space known with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> greater force,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">And all our orbits round the sun will never hide that~- ~e young</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> from all this world you've left undone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marttinen's Men </span></div>
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by George Rasula</div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">My military cold weather experience began in December 1947 when I was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, with the 9th Infantry Regment, 2d Infantry Division. At a pre-Christmas social function when speaking with the daughter of the division chief of staff, she asked the origin of my name Rasula. After telling her it was Finnish and I spoke the language, she immediately took me to a phone, called her father telling him she found a Finnish speaking officer, then gave me the phone. It was a brief one minute conversation, ordering me to be at his office at eight the next morning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">George Rasula, </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Helsinki May 1971</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469896394654_2223" style="color: black; font-family: "geneva"; font-weight: normal;">Before the appointed time I was in the outer office of the commanding general where I met three former Finnish army officers, the leader being (Finnish army colonel) Alpo Marttinen. At the time I didn't know he had been the chief of staff of the Finnish division that had annihilated two Soviet divisions during the battle of Suomusalmi, November-December 1939. Nor did I know he was a recipient of the Mannerheim Cross, Finland's Medal of Honor. During this introductory meeting Marttinen told me what he wanted to emphasize to the commanding general. Five minutes later we were in the general's office where I acted as interpreter for Marttinen and two others learning, as did the general, that this group of thirteen former Finnish army officers had just joined the U.S. Army as private soldiers - our future leaders and instructors in winter warfare.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469896394654_2223" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This began my initiation into winter warfare as well as upgrading my Finnish language. Marttinen told me my language was fifty year old which it obviously was because I spoke the language of my parents and grandparents. From then on for the next few months it was total immersion as my military vocabulary continued to grow.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469896394654_2223" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of the first things the Finns did was design a new sled for the army based on the sled used in the Finnish army in the form of a boat, now used by our Army today - the "ahkio." They had seen the sled the 10th Mountain Division used during WW II and immediately declared it obsolete. It was far too heavy and good only on packed trails.</span></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469896394654_2223" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our pre-Arctic trips to Castle Mountain near Mount Rainier involved training our Yukon Company in the basics of winter survival and oversnow mobility, using techniques not seen in our field manuals. The group of Finns with me received English refresher lessons at night in preparation for teaching cross-country skiing the next day. To the veterans from Finland, skiing is a matter of moving soldiers from here to there, not the fancy downhill "stem christies" taught by the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469896394654_2223" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">At McCord Air Force Base we received air mobility training on C-82 aircraft, the predecessor to the C-119 that later supplied us at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. In fact, the C-82 was my first "airplane ride." In time our Yukon Company loaded up with Arctic gear and flew to a base in Montana, then on to Fort Greely Alaska. It was at Greely where we received intensive live fire training in the care and use of weapons at low temperatures. Medics also had special training. I recall one of our medical officers spending the night out in the open at thirty below in an arctic evacuation bag, reporting it very satisfactory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Important cold weather lessons were learned when we were flown north of the Arctic Circle to Nome for a maneuver, a time when the sun is still below the horizon. There we experienced ice fog so dense we couldn't see beyond the tips of our skis, being reminded that gravity kept us fastened to the snow while sound waves revealed the location of the enemy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">It was during field execises when American soldiers learned the basics of survival from experienced soldiers like Sulo Uitto, or the fine art of sking from Olavi Alakulppi, and especially the much needed basics in winter warfare from the Finns I had the honor of soldiering with during that maneuver to Alaska: Erkki Lahdempera, Kalle Keranen, Vesa Jarvinen, Paavo Kaivinen, Aito Keravuori, Juho Anttila, Eino Lassila and Alpo Marttinen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">Members of the group were soon promoted to senior NCOs. Alpo Marttinen taught winter warfare in </span><span style="font-family: "geneva";">the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, then dressed in the uniform of a master sergeant, backed by flags captured from Soviet military organizations. After receiving U.S. citizenship those who remained in the service were commissioned officers in the United States Army.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "geneva"; font-weight: normal;">A few years later Major Aito Keravuori attended the advance course at the Infantry School where Captain Rasula was a classmate. Because he still needed help with the English language, they arranged after-dinner sessions at Rasula's quarters where they discussed the lessons of the day, a very helpful teaching and learning environment for both officers. Ten years later they met in Saigon when Aito Keravuori was a Green Beret with the Special Forces. We close with memories of a meeting at Aito and Hella's home on a beautiful lake in the state of Maine. The sauna was the the ideal place for remembering the<i> </i>experience.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469896394654_2421" style="color: black; font-family: "geneva"; font-weight: normal;">Note:<i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1469896394654_2420"> Colonel George Rasula, of Clemson, S.C., is a Knight of the Commaner's Order of Finland's White Rose.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-weight: normal;">This story was first printed in the <i>Finnish-American Reporter</i> in 2005. It is reprinted here with permission of the author. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Joanne
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">July
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> My forebears emigrated from Finland
in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century, and Finnish was my parents’ first
language. Believing we kids should grow up fully American, they kept their
secret language from us, much to our mother’s later regret.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remained at the level of a hobby until this summer, when I enrolled in Finnish
1001 at the University of Minnesota. Now every new word in Finnish--my
birthright language--is a nugget, an agate I might polish and possess for my
own personal use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> My new obsession with Finnish feels
very much like being in love. The language excites and exhilarates me and fills
me with longing, a desire to own its vocabulary, its cadence, its music. In
Minnesota, it’s much more fun to roll out “rannalla” than to say “on the
shore.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beth L.
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sirpa
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and updates, and to provide opportunities for networking among its membership.
Membership participation has grown and each month sees new members joining the
group. Please do feel free to request membership in that closed group in order
to share information about your own publications and publications of interest
to you, including links to your own websites where your publications might be
purchased. As well, readers can share reviews of the works they would like to
recommend. FinNALA is pleased to see a vigorous exchange among our members and
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">John Hirsimaki’s First Novel in
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lesser
Mortals</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">
is the story of Aino set against the sweep of Finland's history from its days
as a Grand Duchy of the Tsarist Empire through its war of independence, its
fight for survival in the 1939-40 war against Soviet Russia and beyond, with a
touch of intrigue and mystery. Independent minded characters, stalwart and
courageous, often out of time and place people Aino's life from Finland to
America and back again in search of her national identity.</span><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">About the
author: Brooklyn born and bred, merchant seaman, Korean War era veteran, news
reporter, Columbia graduate, teacher and insurance executive,<b> John C.
Hirsimaki</b> lives in Sonoma, California with his wife and family. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lesser Mortals</i> is his first novel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Find it at Amazon: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Mortals-novel-John-Hirsimaki/dp/0692621970/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460064957&sr=8-1&keywords=hirsimaki"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.amazon.com/Lesser-Mortals-novel-John-Hirsimaki/dp/0692621970/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460064957&sr=8-1&keywords=hirsimaki</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paperback:
312 pages<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Publisher:
Timberhill Publishing (February 22, 2016)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Language:
English<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN-10:
0692621970<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN-13:
978-0692621974<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong>Hekkanen Declared a Literary Landmark</strong></div>
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Ernest Hekkanen’s collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">False Memories and Other Likely Tales</i>
(978-1-894842-26-6, $18.00) has become one of his best-selling titles. Alan
Twigg of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">BC BookWorld</i> has declared
Hekkanen a Literary Landmark. Go to the Literary Map of BC and click on the only
balloon over Nelson, and you will find his particulars.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lehto’s Latest Book in print<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Steve
Lehto’s book “Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird: Design, Development,
Production and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Competition” was published in February, 2016, by CarTech Books.
The book tells the story of </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chrysler’s development of the fastest “stock” cars
ever built and sold to the public. The cars were so fast, in fact, that they
forced NASCAR to rewrite their rulebook. The cars have also become collector’s
items. Originally selling in the $5,000 range, one recently sold at auction for
$1,000,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Finnish-American Architect Beautified St.Louis<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">New Book out by Rand and Sorila<o:p></o:p></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">In
1947, Finnish-American architect, Eero Saarinen designed the Gateway Arch in
St. Louis, Missouri. Construction began in 1963 and was completed in 1965. The
cost was 13 million dollars. In today’s currency that price would be
$97,300,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
stainless steel arch, on the west bank of the Mississippi River, sits where the
city of St. Louis began. It was built to honour President Thomas Jefferson, the
explorers Lewis and Clark, and the settlement which fur traders Pierre Laclede
and Auguste Choteau started here in 1764.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gateway
Arch is the tallest memorial in the USA and is the highest arch in the world.
Saarinen designed the 630-ft arch to be earthquake proof by embedding 60 feet
deep footings. He created the structure out of hollow stainless steel that can
sway up to nine inches in either direction, withstanding 150 miles per hour
winds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Inside
the tube a tram system takes visitors to the observation deck at the top. From
here a panoramic view of St. Louis unfolds to over four million visitors a
year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Among
Saarinen’s other accomplishments are the design awarding Tulip and Womb chairs
and JFK International Airport’s TWA Flight Center.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">For
more information on American icons, see the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Icons</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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Mirjam Rand has always loved photography and journalism. Having immigrated to Canada from Finland many years ago, she loves to visit undiscovered local delights as well as exotic locations around the world. She has had her work published by Alberta Tourism, many calendars and the Red Deer Advocate. She earned her B.F.A. and Teaching degree from Sir George Williams University in Montreal and has just recently retired from a career in education.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">New and forthcoming titles by
Helena Halme<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Helena Halme<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Can love stay on
course?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Kaisa
knows she should be happy. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Marriage
to the Englishman, the dashing Peter, was a mere dream when she was a student
in Helsinki. But now the newlyweds are constantly arguing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Kaisa
still loves Peter, even more when he goes away to sea, but she also wants a
career, and no one wants to give a job to a foreign Navy Wife. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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needs to do something to change her new life, but she has no idea what. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">One
thing she mustn’t do is fall for another man … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Navy Wife</span></i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> is the
long-awaited sequel to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Englishman</i>,
which attracted thousands of readers when first published on Helena Halme's
blog. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be read as a standalone novel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Praise
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Englishman</i>: </span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Englishman</i> will be one of the best
true stories you'll read this year!" </span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">"A
cracking read" </span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">"This gave me goosebumps"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Navy Wife</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;"> by Helena Halme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 107%;">Newhurst Press<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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copy $3.99</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">The Finnish Girl<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Helena Halme<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Can you be too
young for love?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Midsummer in Finland is a magical time ...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kaisa is the new girl in town – again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">When a messy divorce forces Kaisa's mother to move to a small flat in
an island suburb of Helsinki, Kaisa isn't looking forward to another new
school. But in Lauttasaari she meets Vappu Noren, and begins to spend most of
her time in Vappu's large, chaotic house, filled with her three unruly siblings
and their friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Vappu's brother, a much older, serious boy called Matti. When spring turns into
Midsummer, Matti finally decides to approach the girl of his dreams.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Finnish Girl</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> is a prequel to the 1980s romance, <i>The Englishman</i>, and tells
the story of Kaisa before she meets her handsome English Navy Officer.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Finnish Girl</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">, a Nordic romance, will be out April 15th 2016.<i> <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The novella can be preordered from Amazon.com [link: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Finnish-Girl-young-Englishman-ebook/dp/B01DNQMH30"><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://www.amazon.com/The-Finnish-Girl-young-Englishman-ebook/dp/B01DNQMH30</span></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">] now!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">About the author, Helena Halme<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Helena
Halme grew up in Tampere, central Finland, and moved to the UK via Stockholm
and Helsinki at the age of 22. She is a former BBC journalist. She has also
worked as a magazine editor and a bookseller and, until recently, ran a
Finnish/British cultural association in London. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Since
gaining an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, Helena has published
four novels, <i>The Englishman</i>, <i>The Navy Wife</i>, <i>Coffee and Vodka</i>,
and <i>The Red King of Helsinki</i>. Her novella, a prequel to The Englishman, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Finnish Girl</i> will out in April 2016.
She is working on the final novel in <i>The Englishman</i> trilogy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Helena
lives in North London with her ex-Navy husband and an old stubborn terrier,
called Jerry. She loves Nordic Noir and sings along to Abba songs when no one
is around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">If You Must Fall<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Don Hagelberg<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;">If you must<strong></strong></span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> fall, fall upon a comforter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Because
those behind drug-bars bleed broke and dead.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cry
out your hope for the tattered prisoners.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Those
strung-out excavate their graves, disinter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">They
could do nothing less than life-shed, backward,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">If
you must fall, fall upon a comforter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Un-drugged
clans rule by law and officers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Their
genes keep their children in the austerity of pure beds.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cry
out your hope for the tattered prisoners.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Drunken
men, who swear and urinate luster,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">halt
mid-stream, partial watersheds, and say instead,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">“If
you must fall, fall upon a comforter.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Still-born
by swallowed alcohol, they transfer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">the
prayer-step mocked to the one pled.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cry
out your hope for the tattered prisoners.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">You,
who have the drunken mirror of false belief,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">do I
reflect your sober wish there, unsaid?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">If
you must fall, fall upon a comforter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cry
out your hope for the tattered prisoners.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Breakfast Volcanology<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Jim
Heikkinen<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
egg has lava, she says<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">carving
vents into the overeasy dome. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bright
yellow flow moves up her raised butter knife<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">which
she licks attentively, then hungrily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Before
a yoke sill can devlop along a wheat toast block<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">both
are suddenly lifted into the space between. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">White
mums held in a simple jar, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">water
growing milky green. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The Present: En Dikt Inne <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">As
I do what I do,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">what
I do<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">pulls
me through<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">from
the present into<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">the
future as this word<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">flows
from the edge<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">of
contained ink into<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">the
surface of<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">the
becoming page,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">satisfying
the urge<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">to
mean something<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">which
I both choose<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">and
which also hides<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">unknown
in the verge.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Billboards
here offer welcome distraction to scenery that </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">appears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">bulldozed
but actually is quite natural.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Matted
garbage and blowing litter serve the function of <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> keeping
the dust down—<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">the
relentless dust the consistency of talc mixed <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">with
a thousand years of filth, bacteria and ancient fecal <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> decomposition.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Half–buried
tires are formed into circular desert formations <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> for
no reason. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hacking
up phlegm eventually becomes a salute of <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> comradery
.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">During
the afternoon<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bus commute, highway
traffic was <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> backed
up<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">due to a double bed truck that had jack knifed
spilling white <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> boulders<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">the shape of large prettified watermelons over
four lanes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">You instantly regret not freezing an image
like everyone <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> else
but soon forget why.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The scene provided a salutary relief<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from sitting yet once again on the company bus<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>staring at the hands while trying to ignore<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">the drone or whine of a white haired expat’s
replay of <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">complaints
and futile comparisons to “Back Home” <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> somewhere:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pirate
John (everyone has a nickname)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>perches
clip on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sun shades inside his prescription lenses <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">and
wears his watch strapped tightly to the outside<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of a windbreaker he wears year-round even <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">when
the temperature<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>breaks 125 degrees in
the pointless <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> shade.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
new compound wall collapsed soon after the final strands<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of barbed wire were strung by worn down Paki
workers <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> clad </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">in sun blasted Punjabis and cracked sandals or
sockless <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> boots<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who may or may not resume rebuilding in a few
days or <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> weeks<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">or
whatever … In Sh’Allah* <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
windy season you feel first in your throat then inside your skull<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">is starting…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">it
may even rain a few <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">spatters<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> * (</o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">if
Allah wills")<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">How Could It Happen?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt;">Kaarina
Brooks<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">How did it happen?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">As I cooked in my kitchen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">and happily sang to my African Violets,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I didn’t see the noxious liquid <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">seeping slowly into our marriage, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">cunningly corroding the core,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">until the the whole thing just…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fell apart!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">As I picked raspberries <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">and, singing, weeded the garden,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I didn’t notice that our marriage,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">teetered precariously on the wall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">and was slowly starting to topple,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">til it fell and broke apart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">and couldn’t be put together again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">And I still don't know</span></div>
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how it happened. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">--<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><strong>The Golden Cuckoos<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<strong>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A Kalevala Folktale<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hazel Lauttamus Birt<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<strong>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Translator and Illustrator<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Once
long ago there lived a very powerful old shaman named Vänämöinen who wanted to
marry the young and beautiful Aino. Her mother urged her to accept and so on
her wedding day Aino left the farm and went walking by the sea lamenting her
fate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘Better
I were a fish swimming in the ocean than to be married to that old man!’ In her
despair Aino cast off her wedding finery. The jewels bestowed on her by her
bridegroom she threw into the water to sparkle like jewels in the bottom of the
sea. Aino dived into the sea and promptly turned onto a silver fish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Word
quickly spread through the forest among the animals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘Someone
must go and tell the bride’s mother!’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘Let
the Bear bring the word.’ But the bear disappeared into a herd of cows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘Who
is to bring the word?’ the animals pondered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘Let
the Fox bring the word.’ But he disappeared into a flock of geese.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Golden Cuckoos Woodcut Print<br />
by Hazel Lauttamus Birt</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘Let
the Hare bring the word.’And the Hare said, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘The
Hare won’t disappear among men. I will go!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Hare set out, long ears flapping, bandy legs running, hare lips quivering to
bring the news to the farm. The Hare ran to the Sauna and crouched on the
threshold. The young girls came to the door whisks in hand. They joked with
him:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘Did
you come, Squint-eyes to be boiled or roasted for supper?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘I
set out to bring the word. The beautiful young Aino has drowned. She with the
silver cross on her chest has changed into a fish and is even now swimming with
the whitefish of the ocean.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">On
hearing the word that her lovely daughter was dead the mother began to lament
and weep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘Oh
what a great wrong I have done forcing her into that marriage!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her
tears fell from her blue eyes onto her cheeks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tears
fell on her breasts and unto her fine skirt unto the red tops of her stockings
and onto her lovely shoes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Soon
tears covered the ground and began to flow like a river. In no time the tears
had formed three rivers. In each river there grew three rapids and in the foam
rose three birch trees. On each birch tree three golden cuckoos were lamenting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One Golden cuckoo called,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>‘Dear Love! Dear Love!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The second Golden cuckoo called, ‘Suitor! Suitor!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The third Golden Cuckoo called, ‘Joy! Joy!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
first cuckoo called ‘Dear Love! Dear Love!’ for three months for the love girl
in the bottom of the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
second cuckoo called, ‘Suitor! Suitor’ for the one who was to marry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
third cuckoo called ‘Joy! Joy!’ for ever to the joyless mother who was forever
weeping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Spring Letter 2015<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Lauri Anderson (or
Laurie) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Some
people drift without going anywhere or doing anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Changing circumstances toss such people
nowhere at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit in my chair,
stained and often wet from the damned dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I try to watch the news but there isn’t any because this is contemporary
America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We all get trumped 24/7 unless
we’re cruising with Cruz and his ignorant whores and lackeys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of the world only exists on the BBC,
CBC, and NPR and it too is swinging to the right—freedom in danger everywhere
from demagogues, would-be dictators and narcissistic certainties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Europe is drowning under the flow of George
Bush’s Middle Eastern refugees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even in
France the National Front and Marine LePen are gaining neo-Nazi converts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I sit and read my magazines—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Yorker, The New York Review of
Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Archaeology, Astronomy, Friends of Nigeria,
DownEast, Discover, Time</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
stopped reading literature and no longer write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I love real writers and they are my friends but are generally long dead…dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loathe fake writers, the millions of
self-published, rarely read egos who push themselves onto the rest of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In April when I do a reading, they will be
there—poets who have not read the great poets and who have never bought a book
of poetry; novelists who have only read middle-school fantasies about zombies,
vampires, and apocalypses—Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t met anyone new and worth
knowing in a bar or mall, Hancock, the Copper Country, Michigan, or the lower
48.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did meet a botanist from north of
Fairbanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He likes my books and stopped
in for Turkish coffee, pie, and conversation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A woman journalist from France interviewed me for 3.5 hours in my
kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her husband is France’s Ambassador
to South Sudan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A young Finnish guy
interviewed me for 2.5 hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and she
both received pie and Turkish coffee. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I still cook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Recently I’ve eaten oyster stew; traditional
State of Maine beans with molasses, dry mustard, and salt pork; Cornish hens in
an orange sauce; Finnish cold beet salad with chopped apple, chopped beets and
potatoes, pickled herring, raw green onion, sour cream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is no one to eat it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucy is living with me but she is on a
meatless diet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2.5-year-old Arvid is
full and done after the equivalent of three adult bites of something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a couple of months Lucy will be married
and they will be gone and I’ll still be in my chair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For three weeks in May Lucy will be in
Finland as a Paloheimo scholar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
scholarship covers her expenses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I
take saunas at Finlandia but all sports are in the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a cane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My hip has been replaced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My guts have been shortened—the cancerous
section cut out and tossed into a hospital’s version of a landfill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to know people but they’ve all
disappeared into (or maybe under) the ether.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Karen has disappeared into the United States or whatever it’s called on
the other end of the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kristen has become a recluse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John is frequently ill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dan putters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old friends (literally OLD)
have disappeared into their own chairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only Timo Koskinen is still around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I’ve become my uncle who lived in the pantry—who attacked visitors
with a pitchfork and Finnish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only
listen to classic country music about death, damnation, misery, pain,
suffering, and divorce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t like
today’s electronic and digitized music made up of a lot of noise while someone
soundlessly sings into a mike, unheard, already buried, but noticed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still teach a class or two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now I teach the Art of Film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The seven students and I watch a film on
Tuesday and discuss it on Wednesday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
paid my taxes, so part of me is still alive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Milky Way has
200,000,000,000 suns and there are 100,000,000,000 known galaxies, each the
size of the Milky Way or larger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So who
are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Billions of neutrinos pass
through each of us every fraction of a second.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are mostly empty space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So who
am I?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ai!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the summer I shall go fishing in
northern Maine in Lost Bog, so lost that even the locals do not know it’s there,
hidden off a long-unused railroad track right in the town where I grew up, a
town that has become a ghost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The town
and the unseen bog are an existential kind of place, a perpetual mystery, a was
and is and maybe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want to join me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I may not be there when I’m there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There may not be a there there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Au revoir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today is Good Friday, the day Jesus was
knocked off by Roman right wingers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing much changes, does it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yadeyadeyade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To madala.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alla ya kai mu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does it mean to be a poacher, professor
and PCV with a cane?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Cock-A-Doodle Done!’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Opens Cage Doors for Business<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Charles Peltosalo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Veteran
Lowcountry shredding and breakdown expert Bridger P., a 25 year old Moluccan
cockatoo hailing from Hilton Head’s South Beach has announced the opening of
his document disposal/ wood-splintering service in uptown Grahamville. “Get it,
got it, done!”-reads his business card. “Sensitive materials personally handled
by bonded owner.”
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Depending on the customer’s needs, I work a
3-corner system in my workspace where I can either shred, crunch, or mulch
material”, stated the self-described ‘one-man wrecking crew.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“In
the Southern corner, all documents fed ‘above the grate’ of this cage will be
shredded beyond recognition by my rapid razor beak and stiletto claws by close
of business each day. These can be disposed of securely on-site or moved ‘below
the grate’ on the Northern side to be further processed into organic mulch and
compost. Here below Bridger’s feeding station, fruit and vegetable by-products
liberally sprinkled with water and cockatoo metabolites become valuable soil
booster popularly used in organic gardens throughout the region. This
composting requires a 3-day turnaround for a mature product packaged by the
bag.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“I
do major wood-crunching, I call it ‘working the blocks’, in the Southwest
corner of my enclosure. My signature ‘rainbow-picks’ are the result of reducing
colorful hanging block-knots there down to their smallest multi-colored
components I can manage. These are ideal for sticking appetizers, binding
BLT’s, or gigging canapés. These can also be packaged into bundles for festive
holiday lightwood and tinder. There is a 2-day turnaround for certain specialty
woods, but so far, everyone applauds the product.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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going”, said one customer while he waited for his custom bundle of picks and
tinder and bag of ‘secret mulch’, “Not only are my confidential documents
indecipherable, but their final mulching makes them nearly untouchable. But you
should see my tomatoes!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that I’ve reached 16 human years of age,
only surpassed by the 30 years of Raja the parakeet, it saddens me to remind
everyone of some basic rules of courtesy around here. I suspect much of this
need arises because of my poor hearing, weaker eyesight, and slower movement;
in a word, my inability to swiftly bite or bark to enforce my space. A word to
the wise: don’t test me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Also, let me state categorically to any humans
that I will not willingly submit to any grooming, bathing, pilling, or any
other medical procedure. I’ve had it, especially after the last dental episode.
At least you guys get crowns and implants to keep your tongue in your mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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around me most times except when they are high on catnip and leap over or race
by me. It used to just take a well-pitched growl to remind folks, but now I
guess an editorial is my last resort.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Darla the dingo has the rules down for the
most part though she could give way to an older gent at the door and not race out
to the yard like a teenager at recess. And if she would please not hover around
my food bowl as much after she’s inhaled her meal. I’ve kept trim through the
years, which is something she might consider next time she ponders her stout
butt in the mirror.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to thank Raja the parakeet for allowing
me passage through my own house whenever she is out of her cage without all the
swooping and biting the cockatoo rudely clings to. It’s such a dumb production
that I figure it is its’ own punishment, looking all overdone and foolish. But
no! He persists and one of these days when Bridger thinks he’s caught me
unawares, he’ll be the one getting the nip!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to say the food is spectacular: steak
or rotisserie chicken at every meal with plenty of ham snacks in between. I
think I speak for everyone when I say:”Well done!” Or at least, ‘medium rare.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The valet service at the door is as superb as
ever and my half of the bed is as comfortable as I would ever want. I just wanted
to remind everyone that life around here runs pretty smoothly, but that a
little bit of consideration from everyone could make it even better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shih-Tzu Housemate, Babe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The FinNALA websits is undergoing renovation. After much research to locate an appropriate web designer, FinNALA is planning a new look in a new webhosting tool. Keep watch for an unveiling in the coming year. In the meantime, do not worry if you wish to update your membership and all you can find on the website is the 2015 renewal form. That form is still operational, so you can use it. Any memberships submitted during this month will be processed for the year 2016. Thanks so much for your patience with this much-needed update. </div>
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For the past couple of years, FinNALA has operated a private group for its membership to share announcements and updates, and to provide opportunities for networking among its membership. Membership participation has grown and each month sees new members joining the group. Please do feel free to request membership in that closed group in order to share information about your own publications and publications of interest to you, including links to your own websites where your publications might be purchased. As well, readers can share reviews of the works they would like to recommend. FinNALA is pleased to see a vigorous exchange among our members and guests. </div>
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Diane <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Dettmann’s
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was recently awarded runner-up in the 2015 Great Midwest Book Festival young
adult fiction category. </span>Set in a Japanese interment camp in the U.S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Courageous Footsteps </i>is a poignant story
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story pulled me in from the first page. I felt deeply for the hardships Yasu,
Haro and their parents were forced to endure.<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "ms mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: "New Times Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: "New Times Roman";">”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diane Dettmann</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>—Jane Dunlap, Teacher, St. Paul Public Schools<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">DIANE
DETTMANN is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty-Eight
Snow Angels A Widow’s Story of Love, Loss and Renewa</i>l. She is also the
co-author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam Daughter of Finnish
Immigrants</i> and a contributing author for the national Women’s Voices for
Change organization in New York City. Diane is currently working on the sequel
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Courageous Footsteps.</i> For
information about her books visit her website at
http://www.outskirtspress.com/footsteps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Finlandia
University’s Campus Read Committee announces</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writers
of the Northern Persuasion</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Finlandia
University and the Michigan Humanities Council are sponsoring a project that
supports regional authors of all genres. Several authors will be visiting
Finlandia University’s campus and making public presentations in March 2016.
All presentations will take place Tuesdays at 4:15 p.m. at the Chapel of St.
Matthew on the FinnU campus, Hancock, Michigan. There is no charge to attend
any of the events. Books will be available for purchase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">March
15<sup>th</sup><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Andrea Scarpino,
U.P. Poet Laureate. Her book of poetry <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Once,
Then</i> has been selected as the spring 2016 Finlandia University Campus Read<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">March
22<sup>nd</sup><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sonny Longtine,
author of five books of non-fiction, most notably <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Murder in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">March
29<sup>th</sup><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John Smolens, author
of eight novels and a collection of stories. His latest, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wolf’s Mouth, </i>will be released in February. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">An
all-author forum will take place on Saturday, April 9<sup>th</sup>, from 10:00
to 4:00, at Finlandia’s Finnish American Heritage Center. This will be open to
all regional authors and will include book sales along with other events yet to
be determined. There is no charge for participants, but registration will be
required. Contact Terri Martin if you would like more information or would like
to be on the list to receive future information for the events and registering for
the all-author forum. </span><a href="mailto:terri.martin@finlandia.edu"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">terri.martin@finlandia.edu</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> or 906 487-7512<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">This
project is funded in part by the Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of
the National Endowment for the Humanities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Rossi and Brooks Have New Book Out</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“No Home for My Heart” by Karen Rossi (AKA Kaarina Brooks) is </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449605121901_2667" style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">coming out as an e-book Fri. Dec. 4</span><span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449605121901_2665" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on Amazon.com as well as their European sites in England, Germany, and France, B&N, and All Romance e-Books. Over the next couple of weeks, they’ll also start appearing on Kobo and a few smaller retailers thereafter.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No Home for My Heart</td></tr>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449605121901_2659" lang="EN-US">Marshall Kenton is content with her life. She's got two great kids and a good man who loves her. It's a far cry from her tumultuous past and the bitter memories of life with her alcoholic ex-husband, Robert. After nearly fifteen years of healing for herself and her eldest child, who has never outrun the demons of his ravaged childhood, Marshall has finally found a place of peace. But when, after a family funeral, Robert reappears into her life, her hard-won peace is destroyed. She'd be mad to even look at the man, but she can't help the feelings he kindles within her, this intense, passionate man who was—and, she learns, still is—her true love.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1449605121901_2638" lang="EN-US">Recovering alcoholic Robert Kenton can't pull himself away from the woman standing before him. He knows the hell he put her and his children through—the baby girl who doesn't even remember him, and the son who will never forgive him. Shrouded by remorse, but unable to walk away, he tells Marshall he will prove to her that he's a different man, and that he will always be the man who loves her. He's been dry for years, runs his own construction company, and has a beautiful sailboat moored out in the bay. But when he takes the family out for a sail, a storm rises that threatens not only the delicate truce between them, but their very lives. And even then, the ghosts of the past don't always rest easy...</span></div>
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Creative Submissions</h3>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><strong>Calendar with
Doors</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eero Sorila</span> </div>
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Christmas, the noblest among feasts -‘<i>Joulu juhlista
jaloin’</i> is an old Finnish saying. </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How true the
saying rings specifically when I recall Christmas times as a child in my native
Finland.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the first born
son among six siblings I had certain privileges in the pecking order. One was
mostly due to the fact that I was taller than my younger brothers and sisters.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In our childhood
‘ kamari’- living room, the pre-Christmas spirit was heightened to a fever
pitch, due to an wall-calendar. The Advent- calendar hung above our heads in a
teasing manner. Fortunately standing on toes helped to gain a direct view of
it.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After waking up in the cool December
mornings, my first move was to make a B-line to the calendar. The ‘pönttö uuni’
which was like a ten feet high barrel used for heating the house had not been
fired up by the time I sprinted from my bed. The excitement made me warm, no
matter how cold it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each day was numbered in the calendar with
a small door. Words cannot describe the excitement of flipping open a new door
each morning, which had a Christmas related picture inside. The picture could
be of anything imaginable about Christmas, a Santa clause wrapping gifts, the
elks stirring porridge etc. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was equally
exciting for me to tell my shorter siblings what I had seen inside the small
door.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I grew up to
adulthood in North America my curiosity to open many other doors in life
continued, but I will never forget the Calendar with doors.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me, Christmas
remains to be the noblest among feasts.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo by Eero Sorila</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong>Come
in stranger<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My travels took me to Malaga, Spain where
I opened a door to a room which I had rented in an old house. I was on the
other side of the Atlantic Ocean without knowing a soul. The warm memories of
Christmas at home and among loved ones intensified my loneliness. I had never
spent a Christmas alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A knock on the
door broke the silence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had at least learned<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one word of Spanish; ‘ se’- yes to respond to
the knock. The elderly landlady with graying hair and a prominent nose said
that she is going out to spend Christmas with her relatives. Her gaze had an
inkling of pity as she looked at me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After her words ‘ <i>Feliz Navidad</i> ‘
– Merry Christmas, she slammed the door with a bang. It was to prevent the cold
air from entering my room. A good gesture. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the bang, I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>laid in bed on my back and stared up. The
embossed metal ceiling was my Christmas decoration. Using my imagination I
could think of a glowing Christmas candle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Intense darkness covered the windows and
crept into my soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It was 11:30 pm. I could not take it any longer. I got up
and went out. The warm wind blew lustily from the Mediterranean Sea as I walked
along the ‘ <i>Malecon</i>’ – seaside promenade, to the center of <i>Malaga</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There I found a
big cathedral. The massive door was wide open as if beckoning,’ come in
stranger’. As I walked into the cathedral the choir was singing. I did not
understand the words, but the melody was familiar. The notes of, <i>Silent
Night, Holy Night</i>, fell into my heart like drops of warm‘<i>glögi</i>’-
Christmas drink in Finland.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spiritually nourished, I returned to my
room and fell asleep, a stranger no more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">301 kph on a
Bullet Train<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><strong>M.L. King<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">China<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">12/2015<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">While stilled
scenes </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">flee </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">before</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">they’re
seen, sways strung <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">ever
eastward fling sudden jolts from right <br />
to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">left</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wheels spun to max grind iron rails, <br />
whose shrieks a peaking charge</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> suppresses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Splayed <br />
for bids to move about,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">
folks reach for what<br />
was stowed, do belly flops</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">on luggage</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> dropped<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">when
westward bullets hurtle past.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I
clutch <br />
an</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">overhead
rack, strive to stay upright. <br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Co</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">nductor</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">s </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">scowl</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">, check my ticket, advise <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">I seek an unclaimed seat </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">since I insist</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"> <br />
they not remove a mother with her child<br />
from mine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I struggle to a vestibule,<br />
press beside a window, from which I mark<br />
</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">walls outside are frenzied
in haste to hide <br />
exploited lands before their views are known.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Home Port</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Josef Aukee</strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Think of all the places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Been to, seen and done, escaped<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">At ease and longing for a replacement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">When none is needed or desired<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Open up to the never-ending possibilities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Safety in comfort zones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Songs of familiarity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Blooms never noticed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Walkways never walked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My anchor, my coil, my hopefulness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Resting here among the slips<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Carried over from the past unseen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Until the break of day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The small bits of time recovered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the spontaneous gatherings on ships<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pointed toward the sea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Looking out for adventure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The homeport<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Where time stands tallest on the whole<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anchor up but tethered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To people, land, water, memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s a sinking feeling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">When the railings need a sanding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The rip in the jib mending<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The hold a cleaning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The crew replacing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Think of all the places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet to go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Think of all the places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Still to hear of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Think of all the places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">That could have chosen us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Think of all the places</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Underneath the moon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Think of all the places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We call our own<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Think of places<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Think of here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Just think<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">How the tide cures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Colors the day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">How the sky reminds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Gives directions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Uncovers currents<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">About how we’ll navigate our ways<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">--</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Four-Part Harmony</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Josef Aukee</strong> </span><br />
</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build a chord one note at a time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sometimes a melody calls out the progression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Other times the bass line gives the cue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Words themselves often offer a clue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Winter can chill the tonal landscape<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strings bent like wind on cypress trees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Horns determine the midnight moon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The young build a repertory of style<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Linguistic maneuvers that reflect a mentor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experiments and fast cars to expedite the high<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deferments and false starts build character<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Spring choices are now or never, risk or regrets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Voices echo in memories rare to dispose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lyrics cemented in hooks to hang a hat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In a rush come work and love and buying things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It takes extra stanzas, codas and crimes of rhythm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rush into minor keys and starry promises<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The chorus returns in a jazzy variation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Summer brings a hot percussive interlude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Woodwinds roar an ocean’s breaking wave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cymbals crash and foghorns moan a diminished view<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Every choir distinguishes itself with character<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">An urbane appeal, a croon, a children’s fable in unison<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The voices mingle, color in the tone, tell a story<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In ageless cathedrals a pipe organ offers sage advice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Autumn becomes the sentiment of major resolutions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Guitars amp-up in strength like polyphonic madrigals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A composer scribbles each note in mind on the staff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Configuring the harmony ready for those who will listen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">A Simultaneous
Sting of Bees<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Charles Peltosalo<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ridgeland, SC<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">21 Nov. 15<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shocked
into the moment or knocked out from that moment by<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
simultaneous sting of bees,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">2
non-local souls occupy same space,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
particle of soul occurring in 2 places at once against higher <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Plane
and lower level-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
shift of each other’s cords framed by<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
deceptively plain hard flat floor of white-spiked<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Green
at dimensions’ ends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cross-hatched
by the warp and weave of some geomancer’s <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chalk-paint
lines dividing up the day from moments before<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or
after, the synchronous jolt creates<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">2
particles in space the same.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">All
essentials sweated out by the Chesapeake’s assault on my <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Tree-line
timing, I rust and freeze in rapid waves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Just
a rock or two of NaCl from shaker on porch table will <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unlock
my retinal muscles, free my eye,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe
my heart’s smaller muscles will unstiffen <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or
my lungs,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or
relax other myriad organs to life,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not
tighten towards death’s dark and painful doors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">As
you walk past my yard, full of thoughts of me that<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have
survived the seasons,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I
consider you’re the last sight I’ll see<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">As
we’re both stung by a simultaneous sting of bees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
last sting was set this endless afternoon we inhabit-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cloudless
skies cloaking the gathering bolt;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">It
was a thunderclap of happenstance,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">A drop of nectar wrung from May’s fine clover.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Back
to back at Father’s wake, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
center of the Gibson Island rotunda,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unnoticed
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Like
a tidal bore we reflected in the other’s surface<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Flowing
past and through each other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Our
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Book Review</h3>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Dettmann,
Diane. (2015). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Courageous Footsteps: A
WWII Novel. </i>Denver, CO: Outskirts Press. ISBN: 978-4787-5558-6<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Dianne
Dettmann has created a heart-wrenching masterpiece in her latest work, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Courageous Footsteps: A WWII Novel.</i> In
it, she tackles the topics of inequity, bigotry, and intolerance in an
unemotional manner which allows the hard truths that underpinned (and perhaps
still do) American culture to come to the fore for examination in this her
latest work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
novel shares the story of a middle-class Japanese-American family made up of a
teenaged girl Yasu, her brother Haro, and their shopkeeper parents as the
country is swept up in the anti-Japanese hysteria following the bombing of
Pearl Harbor. The primary narration is through the eyes of Yasu, the
high-school girl whose future is upended <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Japanese-American family strives to preserve some dignity while they suffer the
loss of nearly all they possess—their means of livelihood, their possessions, their
home, their security, and almost their dignity. In this dark tale, life goes
from bad to worse in terms of living conditions and prospects for the future,
especially when Haro is drafted to serve on the European front and leaves young
Yasu with her parents in the detention camp. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In
a nearly absurd parallel, Yasu’s high school friend, a white, middle-class
girl, completes the plans that both girls had set before themselves of going to
college and seeking their individual success. The letters shared between the
two serve to highlight in stark contrast their prospects, which at the opening
of the story had been identical. One girl is detained and forced into manual
labor in the detention camp while the other completes high school and is
accepted at Berkeley. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The
maddening and relentless progression of the story is unavoidable, and readers
resists at every turn what we know is coming, until there is a surprising and
ambiguous turn of events that allows for Yasu’s accidental shift in fate that
suggests a slightly more hopeful, but clearly uncertain, future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yasu’s opportunity, we know, is not to some
utopian ideal. It is, at best, a transition to a new kind of struggle, but
perhaps one that holds somewhat less pessimism than what is located in the
detention camp. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This
novel is sensitively written, incorporating a complex narrative structure that
shifts in perspective among the principle characters. Although told
predominantly from Yasu’s point of view, the passages from the other
perspectives allow for a richer narrative experience and a greater
understanding of the central issues at play that created the diverse outcomes
for members at various locations within the social and ethnic hierarchy of the
day. While written for and receiving honors as young-adult fiction, this work
is suitable for a general audience as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Dettmann
is author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A
Widow’s Story of Love, Loss and Renewal</i> and co-author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam: Daughter of Immigrants. </i>This
latest novel, building on the two earlier and well-received works, embodies her
greatest achievement to date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Harbor on December 7, 1941 turns her young life into a devastating nightmare. Anti-Japanese threats appear everywhere—in store windows, painted across buildings and in her school. Her hopes and dreams unravel quickly when President Roosevelt orders the internment of all people of Japanese descent living along the West Coast. Within weeks her family is imprisoned in a camp in eastern California. Surrounded by barbwire fences and the constant watch of armed guards, Yasu and her older brother, Haro, struggle to accept the overcrowded living conditions and hardships of camp life. As time passes, the confinement, strict regulations and humiliation force them to make courageous choices that will change their lives forever.</div>
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be forgotten. Teenagers, Yasu and Haro, show resilience and courage in the face
of unwarranted hardship and injustice. It’</span>s an important story<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: "New Times Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: "New Times Roman";">—</span> relevant even today<span lang="JA" style="font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-ascii-font-family: "New Times Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family: "New Times Roman";">—</span>that needs to be discussed,
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at Amazon, Barnes and Noble in both e-book and paperback. To purchase books
directly, </span>send check for $25.00 (includes cost of shipping) to Diane
Dettmann, P.O Box 36, Afton, Minnesota 55001-0036. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How the
Crane made terrible trouble for the Kalevala heroes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The great wizard Väinämöinen and his friends Ilmarinen and Leminkäinen set sail
by ship to steal the Sampo, a magic mill from Louho, the wicked witch of the
North. She had it hidden in the Copper Mountain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crane of Finland (woodcut) <br />
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Väinämöinen picked up his magic harp, the kantele and began to play. In no time
everyone on the witch Louho’s North Farm was fast asleep. He then played to the
Copper Mountain asking it to release the nine locks and ten bolts holding fast
the Sampo, the magic mill that ground out not only good fortune but gold and
silver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ilmarinen greased the hinges of the door to stop them from squeaking. He
boasted as he entered, ‘I think I’m man enough to wrestle this lid of many
colors from the mountain.’ But the roots went fifty-six feet deep into the
ground and it was only with the help of a strong steer from the North Farm yard
that they finally loosened the mill from the mountain and made off with it in
their ship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As they sailed along Leminkäinen was jubilant. ‘This calls for a song! Why
don’t you give us a song, Väinämöinen?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘This is no time for singing! Time enough when we get the Sampo home to
Kalevala!’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But the reckless, handsome Leminkäinen could not contain himself, arranged his
face, cleared his throat and burst into song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The raspy harsh roar was heard six farms over across the water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Crane was sitting on a stump in the marsh. The sudden noise so startled him
that with a great shriek he flung himself into the air. He flew screaming with
rage and circled the North Farm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The crane’s shrill cry woke the evil domain. Louhi, the witch ran to check her
cattle and grain bins. Nothing was missing. Then she thought, ‘The Sampo!’ She
ran to the mountain and found the many colored lid torn off from it’s hiding
place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Louhi was in a rage. She at once used her magic powers to call down vengeance.
‘Mist Girl, hang out some fog. Let down a haze over the clear sea. Turso, evil
man of the sea, drown the men of Kalevala! Ukko, golden king of the air, create
a violent storm to stop Väinämöinen from taking the Sampo to his Slack Water
Farm!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Väinämöinen said, ‘A lesser man than
I would be daunted by so much disaster but I think I can handle this.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With his sword he slashed great
tears in the mist and dispelled it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Turso, the terrible creature of
the sea reared his head out of the water, our hero grasped by the ears and
would not let until he promised to leave the people of Kalevala alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Väinämöinen used powerful magic
charms against the stormy sea and violent wind, ‘Water, check your child the
Billow! Ahto, quiet the waves!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vellamo, quiet the genius of the
water! Wind, rise back into the heavens, back to your own tribe up on high!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus the Kalevala men brought home
the Sampo in triumph despite the harm done by the screaming crane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<>< <><<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author-Illustrator Hazel Lauttamus
Birt. Bo</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rn in New Finland, Saskatchewan
she is fluent in the Finnish language. ‘the Stealing of the Sampo’ is from her book,
‘Festivals of Finland’. She lives in Winnipeg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Three Poems<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">by K. Alma Peterson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meeting the Photogenic
Ancestors <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Freckles of disaster airbrushed out.
Sepia <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fatigue blurs the vagaries of
romance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Innocence its own stock takes.
Pansies <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for her palsied mouth. Betrayal a
long stem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Plaid the rules of camp. His grin
deepens <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and up go the stakes. Meadow-waves
of thick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dark hair rile the cicadas. The
stamp of pleasure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bears his name. Unrequited. Lies to
answer for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In Full Leaf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The author, who I'd met <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in passing --- she, the turned <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">leaf a-shiver in the semi-sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and I, an upturned stone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">absorbent of her veined text
--- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">will spend the altered future <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pulling prints and titling a sequel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Inhabiting the Disengaged Father<br />
<br />
His deerskin night-shoes<br />
make almost no sound. Misgivings<br />
arise in his mind; he lightens<br />
his step when the floorboards creak.<br />
Stops. Steadies himself. A stalwart<br />
boat about to capsize.<br />
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No decisions need be made<br />
tonight. His weathered frame <br />
stiffens; so much unnamed<br />
force. His sandbagged family<br />
sleeps behind the wall, waves<br />
him in, a given.<br />
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Except this is dry land; his grave<br />
hidden by low hills, wiry pines.<br />
Everything is loamy; even the horizon<br />
shifts, not sure which illusion<br />
to efface.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>Illegals</strong></div>
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<strong>
by Albert
Vetere Lannon<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
is a true story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not another
bleeding-heart liberal crying towel, but you will have to read it to see that,
and why it matters to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is about
an illegal immigrant.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Isaac
came from a land of poverty and dictatorship, a land where peaceful protesters
were dispersed with violence, where some responded with violence, where
military rule was met with assassination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Faced with conscription, Isaac, like many others, chose to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alone and scared, the young man braved the
many miles of danger to find his way to America.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>America
needed the muscle of young men willing to work long hours for little pay, and
Isaac was allowed provisional entry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
speaking the language he was always the Other, the foreigner, the stranger in a
strange land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He found countrymen, and
they made places where they could speak their own language without feeling
threatened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did things together in
the little spare time they had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They got
drunk together to quell the constant fear they felt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon anger replaced fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaac grew assertive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
and his friends joined a rough gang and challenged authority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it cost them their jobs they retaliated
with violence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were labeled “knife-fighters,”
and “troublemakers.” With the authorities after him, Isaac crossed the border
and went home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Things
were not any better there than when he had left, but Isaac found a wife and
returned to the United States with a new, false, last name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were now illegals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He found work doing the hard jobs others
refused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had children, sending them
to American public schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The children
never graduated; they, too, had to work, but unlike their parents, they spoke
English as well as their native tongue.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
children, caught between two worlds and labeled as the offspring of foreigners,
took on their parents fear and anger, and sometimes acted out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were arrests along with rebellion. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My mother was
proud of her arrest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was sixteen
years old and part of a Washington protest against sending scrap metal to Japan
to be turned into tools of war, later returned as bombs at Pearl Harbor.<o:p> </o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Isaac
Bj<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ö</span>rklund
came from Vaasa Province in Finland to work in the copper mines of the American
West, and to escape conscription into the Russian Czar’s army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He joined the radical union, the Industrial
Workers of the World, and fled Butte, Montana, during a bitter strike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With his new wife and a new, false, name he
returned to the United States to work in the steel mills. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were now illegals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaac
and Mary Lund went to the Finn Hall to drink with countrymen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They never learned much English, but somehow became
citizens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mary
and Isaac had three children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they quit
school to work in factories they learned the customs of their birthplace. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike the descendants of slaves, the
“Finlanders,” also derided as “China Swedes” and “roundheads,” could pass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of those first-generation children of
immigrants, like my mother, devoted their lives to social justice movements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They helped make America a better place,
fighting for unions and civil rights and women’s equality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They passed that passion on to their
children.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Those
particulars fit several generations of immigrants who came to America from many
lands to work hard for low wages, immigrants who faced discrimination and
banded together for survival, in unions, communities, gangs and movements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They came across oceans and met the words on
the Statue of Liberty:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><o:p></o:p> </div>
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<span class="tgc"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="tgc"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="tgc"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">tempest-tossed to me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Immigrants
like my grandparents, legal and not, built America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But without his particulars, Isaac’s story
could be a story of today as well as yesterday, and of tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
our story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>What We Know--What We See</strong><br />
<strong>by Gary V. Anderson</strong> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My logger friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">paused on our snowshoe walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">and said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">something happened here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He scraped through</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">early snow, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">then moss,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">with his boot;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">revealed broken crosscut saw,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">runners from sled,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">forgotten tools of long ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We sat talking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">about the war,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">difficult work of healing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">loss of soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He scraped snow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">from my shoulder,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">and said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">something happened here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I recalled a journey: <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> A Shaman
appeared with an <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> opening
in his heart.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Orange
light and eyes of a <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> raptor
were visible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Shaman placed a<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> ring of
orange on my body and a <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> raptor came
out of my heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">and said,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">my ancestors acknowledged<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">my knowing, my seeing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The logger thought,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">and said,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">maybe you could find the<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ax I lost here last summer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><strong>Gary V. Anderson</strong> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">was
raised along the Columbia River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has
performed at local and national Finn Fests for many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His project, The Sami Exhibit, was at the
Naselle, WA Finn Fest 2014.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">is poems
have been published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis!</i>, a
Literary Journal of the Finnish North American Literature Association, and Curio
Poetry, New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has been featured
in performances on Lyle Haataja’s Scandinavian Hour radio show in Astoria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He recently performed with Gary Stroutsos,
world flute player at Dayaalu Center on Bainbridge Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has published two books, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Finnish Soul</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bunchgrass and Buttercups.</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Eros
Abides<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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</strong><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>by
Lisbeth Holt</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">(<a href="mailto:Travelbylis@aol.com">Travelbylis@aol.com</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Without
fanfare, Eros unerringly aimed a quivering arrow into my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
it causes distress…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">How
exactly do I deal with this uninvited guest?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’ll
ignore it, I promise myself, will it away,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Transform
it, ruthlessly rip it out…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">To
no avail:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Firmly
implanted for a reason, an unexpected season, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Just
for me to comprehend…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
thorn from a rose!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fragrance
redolent of that most beloved of blooms…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
seed promising growth of dormant powers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Emerging
into flower…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
pulsing dart giving no peace but awakening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">An
ecstatic breaking free of false assumptions,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wintry
acceptances…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> A wild rose defying an arid world yearning
for sweet rain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The sun’s caress in deep rich loam of
blessedness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Earthy, sensual, Eros abides;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Spirit-filled, ethereal, no longer a
divide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">A
bell clamoring within which cannot be stilled:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reuniting
precious forgotten pieces of my soul,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Now becoming whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>Finland
Summer 2015<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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<strong>
</strong><strong>by Elsie
Jaehn<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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Finland was cold this summer, the coldest in 25 years so said the local
Helsinki newspaper, and we definitely have to agree with that assessment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we arrived at our cottage deep in the
forest in mid-May, spring was just beginning to unfold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the days evolved into weeks and nature
took on a grand green dress, the temperatures didn't want to accommodate the
season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Jackets and socks and shoes took the place of shorts and flip flops as we
walked down the gravel road to drink in the beauty of a huge variety of
colorful wildflowers that graced the forest floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May turned into June and Midsummer Night on
the 21st.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The days were looong, and we
were visited periodically by a tall species of Canada geese with their brood of
5 goslings that made themselves right at home at the shoreline of the
property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Koskelo diving mother duck
with 8 babies on her back came to visit frequently as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On an overnight trip to Helsinki to visit
with friends, we spent time down near the harbor, the focal point of the city,
wandering through the marketplace enjoying the vibrant scenery spread out
before us where visitors are able to take scenic boat trips to a variety of
local venues, including Tallinn, Estonia, an hour's journey by hydrofoil across
the Baltic Sea. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In mid-July the temperatures began to moderate somewhat, and after all
the rain we experienced previously, we were able to go into the forest and
harvest an abundant supply of Chanterelle mushrooms that we enjoyed with
several meals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In early August, as fall
was beginning to make inroads on the season, we were able to pick blueberries
and raspberries right on the property that provided added pleasure to our daily
breakfast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before we left in mid-August,
we had a few days of sunshine and temperatures in the low 70s when we could
finally discard our jackets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The night
we arrived home in Florida, we were very happy to take a swim in our nice, warm
pool that was waiting patiently for our return.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">the river, the lifeline<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">by Anita Erola</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">in the evening
light<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">the river
Danube<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">reflects buildings
illuminated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">the
water’s sheen mercurial <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">for musing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">journeys past
and present<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">of ancient
ships<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">that navigated
their way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">this
travelers’ waterway<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Finno-Ugric
speaking DNA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">sought their
destinies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">carrying
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">the DNA
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">today’s distant
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">today<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">my connection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Volume 8, No. 1</h3>
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<em><strong>Publication of the Finnish North American Literature Association</strong></em> <br />
<span style="color: #333333;">© March 30, 2015</span><br />
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Beth L. Virtanen, Editor-in-Chief<br />
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Laity won a Eureka Short Story Fellowship and a Finlandia
Foundation grant to complete the work on this collection immersed in the
ancient tales of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kalevala</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kanteletar</i>. She even visited the <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Astuvansalmi </span>pre-historic
rock paintings to get in touch with the mythic past. The stories are both
modern and historic but they all engage with traditional tales of the past. The
collection ends with the play “Lumottu” which examines Finnish emigrants in
America in the early twentieth century.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Praise for the collection:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You will want to savor every word,
every page and read this book over and over. The warmth and peacefulness these
stories bring to the reader feels like a big, comfortable blanket on a cold
wintry day” — <a href="http://thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/unikirja-dream-book-book-review/"><span style="color: blue;">The
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“K. A. Laity’s efforts make Finnish
mythology and folklore relevant today in ways that resonate with the modern
reader. She mates myth and womanhood exquisitely. In short, her work is
fabulous.” — <a href="http://katewombat.blogspot.com/2010/07/review-of-unikirja.html"><span style="color: blue;">FinNALA</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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about two teenagers who are imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during
WWII. </span>Surrounded by barbwire fences and the constant watch of armed guards,
Yasu and her older brother, Haro, struggle to accept the hardships of camp life.
As time passes, the confinement, strict regulations and humiliation force them
to make courageous choices that will change their lives forever. The following
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Wrapped in her robe,
Yasu scooted down the hallway with Kenta, the family’s loyal German shepherd,
at her heels. When her brother Haro joined them in the hallway, Kenta snuggled
up to his leg. With only one small bathroom in the house, the schedule was
tight. Seeing her chance, Yasu quickly slipped into the bathroom and beat her
brother at their morning competition—a daily challenge Haro enjoyed winning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beaten her brother, Yasu quickly bolted the door, washed her face and combed
her hair. The minute she opened the bathroom door, her brother pounced on her.
At seventeen and two years older, he was always ready to take on his sister’s
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">The aroma of
hot chocolate swirled around the cozy kitchen as she slid onto the hard bench
of the breakfast nook. Kenta settled down on the tattered rug by the back door.
Her father, engrossed in the <i>Los Angeles Times, </i>paused and looked at his
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">“Good morning,
my sweet butterfly.” He had called her “butterfly”—a Japanese symbol of joy and
longevity—for as long as she could remember.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">At ten o’clock
they walked to Sunrise Lutheran Church together. After the service they
returned home and enjoyed Mother’s delicious roast chicken dinner. As soon as
the meal was over, Haro retreated to his attic bedroom while Yasu finished the
dishes and then joined her parents in the tiny living room. She cuddled up next
to Kenta on the floor. As she stroked his heavy fur, she thought about her
sixteenth birthday just weeks away. She looked forward to sharing a hot fudge
sundae at Floyd’s Burgers with her friend Ruth. She had known Ruth since second
grade, and they did everything together. As she listened to the radio, Glenn
Miller’s trombone pulsed the catchy rhythm of “In the Mood.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">A panic-filled
voice broke through the music. “Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor! Early morning attack!
Thousands dead! Flames! Smoke! Relentless attack!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;">Words of war
crackled through the fabric of the radio speaker until the music program
returned. The Sakamotos continued to listen as frequent updates to the
devastating attack on Pearl Harbor interrupted the Benny Goodman and Glenn
Miller tunes on the radio. Yasu eased herself off the floor. When she sat down
beside her father, he gently held her hand. Worried about the horrific attack,
they sat in silence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow’s
Story of Love, Loss and Renewal </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam
Daughter of Finnish Immigrants. </i>She has shared her writing at local author
events, festivals and international conferences in Finland and Canada. Diane’s
website: </span><a href="http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: blue;">http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Steve Lehto's <em>American Murder Houses</em> is a compendium of exactly that – houses around the country where murders took place. The book contains more than two dozen chapters – each one about a specific house – and photos. The houses that made the list are famous and notorious and most are ones people have heard of. Some are not as well known, but each still attracts attention, years or<br />
decades later (and some, centuries later). The story of each murder is told, if we know who did it or why, and what the house has gone through since. I even include the addresses of each. The book was published by Berkley in February and is available nationwide. </div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dark,
ominous clouds were hanging low in thickly clustered layers over the lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looked as though one could almost reach
up, grab hold of them and rent them apart to allow the warmth of the summer sun
to flow through upon the earth below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Such was the greeting as we awakened on that 49-degree July morning deep
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As I held my
head in my hands looking out the window, while the fireplace sputtered to life
after being fed yet another offering of birch logs to keep the cozy cottage
warm, I wondered what I would do with this seemingly unattractive gift that had
been thrust into my lap. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two choices
were apparent: a) I could mope and gripe about the weather, or b) I could look
for the positive aspects of this day and allow it to evolve in a grand
fashion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chose the latter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dressing appropriately, including gloves (still can't believe it's July, and by
the way, what's this I hear about Global Warming?), I gathered up the bag of
garbage from under the sink and was off to the refuse station located about a
half-mile away on the main roadway.<o:p></o:p></div>
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take the back way along the gravel road through the forest to get there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I walked the length of path, I suddenly
realized that Nature was not at all displeased with the weather
conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birds were trilling away
without a care in their little hearts; bless them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rounded a bend and saw a neighbor's small
potato patch happily growing while surrounded by a rare and colorful
orchestration of summer wildflowers that waved receptively in the gentle breeze
that wafted through the air all around me. Farther along the path, I came upon
a few seemingly abandoned old farm buildings still vibrant and alive dressed in
their mottled red paint and white trim.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They seemed quite comfortable in their residence while lush foliage in
assorted shades of green cradled them in their embrace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stopped often and marveled at Nature's
bounty. Thistle plants taller than I were ready to burst into deep purple
blooms once the sun would send forth its warming rays to break open their
swollen buds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that was to be on
another day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless, the promise
was there, and so it would happen eventually.<o:p></o:p></div>
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of my reverie was broken only by the rhythmic crunch of gravel under my feet as
I walked upon the forest path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually,
the sound enhanced my focus and concentration as I continued to drink in the
beauty all around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, I arrived
at my destination, dropped the garbage into one of the containers and continued
on my way along the roadway for a quarter of a mile or so before I turned down
yet another gravel trail that would take me back to the cottage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I meandered
through the neighbors' barnyard and marveled at the huge rhubarb leaves and
then remembered how flavorsome was the rhubarb pie that I had tasted at their
home a week or so before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Farther along,
I stopped briefly to watch an ant colony busily working, as always, on the
enormous hill they had amassed over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They didn't seem concerned at all about the weather conditions of the
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wild raspberry canes were
heavily laden with fruit that would ripen within the next four weeks or so—they
too didn't seem at all disturbed about the fact that the sun wasn't shining
today, and as I concluded my walk, I realized that I too had found beauty in
the seemingly imperfect day—it was perfect after all!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My heart was
happy and filled with joy, peace and contentment as I sat on the lawn swing in
my heavy clothing and gloved hands looking out over the lake where the dark,
ominous clouds still hung in thickly clustered layers just as I had left them a
couple of hours ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May you too
continually find sunshine in your hearts no matter the weather conditions that
exist outdoors.__<i>Elsie Jaehn</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p> —<strong>Kathleen Halme’s</strong> fourth book of poetry, <strong><em>My Multiverse</em>,</strong> was named winner of the 2014 Green Rose Prize at New Issues Press at Western Michigan University. Her first book of poetry, <em>Every Substance Clothed</em>, was winner of the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series competition and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her second collection, <em>Equipoise</em>, was published by Sarabande Books, and her third, <em>Drift and Pulse</em> , by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared widely in journals, including <em>Ploughshares</em>, <em>Poetry</em>, <em>TriQuarterly</em>, <em>Boston Review,</em> and <em>Anthropological Quarterly</em>. </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p><span style="color: #555555;">New Issues Press is offering a 40% discount to friends who order the book directly from them at <a href="http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/halme-mymultiverse.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.wmich.edu/<wbr></wbr></span>newissues/titles/halme-<wbr></wbr>mymultiverse.html</a>. The promo code to use is "indie40disc."</span></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p>Halme is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship in Anthropology, and an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship. She is a native of Michigan's upper peninsula and lives in Portland. </o:p></div>
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<o:p>Join Mountain Writers and the literary community to celebrate the launch of Kathleen Halme’s new book of poetry, My Multiverse , winner of the 2014 Green Rose Prize at New Issues Press. <br />Mountain </o:p></div>
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<strong>Kathleen Halme</strong> grew up in Wakefield, a post-mining and logging town in Michigan’s upper peninsula. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan, where her work was awarded the Hopwood Creative Writing Award. Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in anthropology, and an Oregon Literary Fellowship. </div>
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My feeling of satisfaction rose instantly like pulla dough. I
knew how Erkki would enjoy this Finnish delicacy. Even if it was possible to
find the identical herring in North America,
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Carefully placing the jars into mittens, socks and other protective
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The inflated oddity was too large to fit
in the Finnair overhead shelf. Wrapped in a big plastic bag I hesitantly
lowered it unto a luggage conveyer belt by the check in counter. As if starved
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To realize that the backpack was emitting herring odour was a shock.
There was no time or interest on my part to ponder why. I made a fast exit from
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The scary moment of opening the backpack at home was at hand. Like a
bursting cloud, the Matjes herring odour rose to the kitchen ceiling.
Clothing, magazines and a stack of books inside the backpack had received a
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When the herring odyssey was over, I was delighted to present one jar,
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photo book with his sister Mirjam Rand. In the American Monuments you
will discover amazing stories behind the landmarks like the Statue
of Liberty, Grand Canyon and many more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Some vegetables and fruits don’t
seem appealing. My first experience tasting an avocado came when my family bought
one from the grocery store—out of curiosity. It was not ripe, but we didn't
know that. It was hard, slippery and bland. I thought it was strange that
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">My second experience came when I
was on a short-term mission trip to Guatemala. A friend shared a ripe avocado
with me. It was an immediate hit. The taste and texture of the avocado was
delicious. Now I could appreciate it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The rutabaga is a homely
vegetable. Have you seen a rutabaga in the grocery store? It is an ugly globe
covered with wax. I have purchased rutabagas to make pasties. My mother always
added rutabaga to pasties.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Often the checkout clerk at the
local grocery store would pause and stare at the waxed object, and then look up
and ask, “What is this?” And if she was being chatty, “What do you do with it?”
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">My response has been, “I am going
to make some pasties.” Everyone understands that in upper Michigan. But in
Illinois that comment can lead to more questions or a glazed look that informs
me that no further explanation is desired. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To my surprise I saw beautiful
gold and lavender roots larger than a giant beet at <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Farmer's Market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The greens were still intact. This is a
rutabaga? Of course I bought one, and I found new uses for the rutabaga: adding
to mashed potatoes to give a sharper flavor, substituting it for the mashed
potatoes in my potato rolls, trying out recipes for rutabaga casserole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I could grow rutabaga in my garden. My first
attempt at growing rutabagas didn't turn out so well. The roots were very
small. But the greens held stalks with pods of seeds. I collected the pale
beige pods containing tiny black seeds with plans for future planting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Then I consulted a Rodale
gardening book*. I discovered important information. These plants should be
planted in mid summer; they grow best when they mature in cool weather. They
should stay in the ground through the first fall frost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rutabaga is a popular vegetable in Finland because Finland has a short growing
season and the vegetable is well suited to that climate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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homely vegetable is like the ugly duckling. Rutabaga has become a favorite in
my kitchen and a connection with my Finnish heritage. I have plans for rutabaga
in my garden again this year.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">M.
B. Hunt & B. Bortz, High-Yield Gardening. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press, 1986.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is the author of Aliisa’s Letter. The novel is available for purchase on her
website: <a href="http://carolvanderwoudern.com/"><span style="color: blue;">http://carolvanderwoudern.com</span></a>.
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Fooling
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Returning—<o:p></o:p></div>
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Don’t
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It is
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Will come
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Why the
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Elusive
blossom—<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unworldly
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Wind-strewn
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With a
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Sparrows
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Ants
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Sun-yellow
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Blackbird
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Strong
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Beach.
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Seagulls
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Flotsam
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An
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Sees
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Skips on
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Give me
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But
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Not a
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Contact
the poet at esavela10 at gmail.com<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hot
Romp on the Beach</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by Karen Rossi </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(AKA Kaarina Brooks)</span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Barbara
has agreed to help out her friend with birthday party preparations—at a nudist
beach!A newbie, she's not exactly feeling comfortable with her naked self, and
seeing the most gorgeous hunk doesn't help. All she can do is hurry to the
safety of her beach umbrella and dream of this look-alike of the statue of
David.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dave
is helping his friend's volley ball team in a tournament—at a nudist beach!
There being aroused by a gorgeous woman presents a very real and visible
problem. How do the regulars deal with such an awkward situation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Were
Dave and Barbara attracted to each other just because they were nude, or would
every magical thing have happened even if they'd been fully clothed?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><strong>Kaarina Brooks</strong>,
writing as Karen Rossi, has joined the growing number of grannies who write
erotic romances. Her novella, <em>Hot Romp on the Beach</em>, is one of four
stories in an anthology, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hot Encounters</i>,
which was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>#57 on t</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">he top
100 Amazon list in Canada soon after coming out in March, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kaarina also writes sweet romances and has just
completed a three-book series, <em>Portraits of Love</em>, which an editor
at Soul Mate Publishing has asked to see. Thumbs up for getting accepted! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kaarina is also looking into self-publishing,
the hottest thing since the printing press in the publishing world.</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: x-large;">WELCOME to the 75th Finnish
Canadian Grand Festival </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and Nordic Fair 2015</span></span></h2>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finn Festival 2015 is organized by the
Finnish-Canadian community of Toronto, Ontario, in Canada, and expects a record
number of participants and visitors from far and near.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finn Festival 2015 offers something for
every age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are concerts ranging from
rock to traditional popular music, from folk to classical music, and from solo
performances to choirs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can see two
Finnish theatre productions, folk dancing performances and art exhibits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can attend lectures and religious
programs, stroll through the tori-market place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are programs for children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can dance the night away at three festival dances, including a gala
dinner-dance, as well as play a round of golf at the Nordic Golf Tournament. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finn Festival 2015 is held in
conjunction with Nordic Fair, which showcases the history, culture, traditions,
as well as the modern life of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway and
Sweden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nordic Fair 2015 will only just
touch the surface on what Nordic cultures have to offer with beautiful crafts,
cuisine, fine goods and a great program on stage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This fair will truly showcase the best of our
heritage – June 26 – 28 at Mel Lastman Square in Toronto, Canada. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For more information on the events and
how to register, please visit </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.finnfestival2015.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">www.finnfestival2015.com</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> and </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.nordicfair2015.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">www.nordicfair2015.com</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please email us your event ticket
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finn Festival 2015 will be your chance
to discover the “FINN in you” and immerse yourself into all things
Finnish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All this entertainment is not
to be missed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>June 26 - 28 at Mel
Lastman Square and North York Memorial Hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Park, B.C., unable to remember who he is or how he has come to be there. He has
no identification in his pockets, no shoes on his feet. From his very first breath,
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An Illustrated History of Esko and Thomson Township<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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anthology of a rural community near Duluth, Minnesota, settled by Finnish
immigrants in the late 19th century. Published by the Esko Historical Society
with the aid of a Finlandia Foundation grant, the 387-page hardcover book
includes stories of immigration, assimilation, language change, early farming
methods, the cooperative movement, “Karelia Fever” and many other Finnish-American
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families—nearly always with their prized horses. The man holding the reins in
this 1900 photo, Joseph Juntunen Sr., emigrated from Finland in 1880 and later
acquired 80 acres of “rocks and brush” in Thomson Township. Juntunen’s farm
would become one of the leading dairies in northern Minnesota.. (Esko
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Basketball was instantly popular
among Thomson Township’s predominantly Finnish-American populace when the first
high school opened in 1920-21. In this 1923 team photo, the initials on the
ball represent Lincoln High School, later to become Esko High School. The new
community history, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Esko’s
Corner<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, includes a chapter on the</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">school’s traditionally strong sports programs.
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Corner </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">contains original maps and about 160 photos. To
order, send $35 to the Esko Historical Society, P.O. Box 83, Esko, MN 55733 or
via order form at eskohistory.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
face glistening in the cameo</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Seemed
familiar –</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Its
appearance kept altering</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yet
seemed so familiar:</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
female ancestors, perhaps,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
now all a hidden part of me,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yearning
for expression</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
a chain of connectedness</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Providing
continuity.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They
played their parts on this planet, once,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
now it is I who must live my destiny.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
feel a strange serenity</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
if they were somehow watching over me:</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Anna,
Susanna, Elisa, Marja,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Some
ancient wisps of memories</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cling
to my psyche</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Of
all those proud strong women</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
their histories</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Glimpsed
so briefly in my dream</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Of
the crystal cameo.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
am receptive to their guidance.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
hear their faint whispers in the wind.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
spirit sustains the eternal flame we share,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
I carry that torch of life</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Forward
to my daughters in turn.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mothers!
Daughters! Grandmothers!</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ephemeral
images in a crystal cameo</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Revealing
a fair woman</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Looking
much like my mother, my daughter.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
look in her eyes and see it is me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Travelbylis at aol dot com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
</div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<strong>Two Poems</strong></div>
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<strong>By Angela Ahlgren</strong></div>
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</div>
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<strong>Aspen</strong></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
a susurration of leaves in the wind</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
sounds like fine rain falling</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
thin green coins flash and flip</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
a trembling emerald blue on blue</div>
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<strong>Grief</strong></div>
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The liquid steel surface breaks</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
waves wash over rock.</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
One moment I am singing in the car</div>
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the next my cheeks stream with tears.</div>
</span><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span></div>
</span></o:p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
</div>
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~~~~</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Four Poems </span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Charles
Peltosalo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b><br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(4-7)</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cruise
the streets in predawn sonic waves,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Some-ia
paperboys roll up to coffee joints loaded, ready.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From
D.C. to Fargo,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From
L.A. to Toronto,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From
the heart of deep Chicago to</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sleepy
towns not far from Pedro’s,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
you call them,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They
come find you or</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Arrive
before and sit behind you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Every
time I want a silent corner during breakfast</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
waitress channels, upticks,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
leisure of this day’s blend gets blown before the notion’s even known.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hands
raise, fingers signal,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
microfacial twitch, an eyebrow shift,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
bottom lip hints a stubbled ‘hello’.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
snatch my peace before I taste it;</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Color
my hashbrowns gravy-gone:</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
brigade prints the menu.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Watchers
script-read pages past this scene know my schedule,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So
psychic and eerily ahead of you-</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They
are simply always there,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
people with whom the same air I share.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I’ve
witnessed every head in the joint turn to either side.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
if parted by a comb while</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At
the other end of the room one of mine would recognize, wink, signal;</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Once
even sang on the stage as every head simultaneously swiveled away:</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Hey,
Mr. Spaceman(wink with light-beam eyes) won’t you please…..”,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reminding
me I was not alone,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
with another simple flex of mind, remove the part that spread the crowd,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Returned
them to their random time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Once
by choice, an ortho-Church thing, quiet sanctum sanctorum,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Big
potluck: pick your pew, I got a hiss or a heal; another tight squeeze.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
tricky days where Spring ice held my blades’ back edge</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Until
the weeds’ sweet reprieve.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Afraid
I had to believe,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sometimes
now I know.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Native
Americans aptly name a Great Mystery.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Buddha
stressed 4 til 7, but</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
prodded about his big belly said:</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I’m
too vain to have noticed!”</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let’s
all hope some sort of savior drives the morning star.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On
sleepy Saturdays or Sundays here on the ground,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
pry from mattresses, stroll and seek solitary coffee-company,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But
some of us aren’t you and me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Heaven
just begins at sky.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Some
angel’s pose or alien’s ruse perhaps for fun or</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
reverse and you’re the one stuck.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Some
mornings, I like neither words, you know the ones;</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They’re
just people, too,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">More
like interstellar chameleons, or</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Other
Side vaudevillians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Some-ias,
countryfolk, old bums, young rockers,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">NASA-types
seem to be the ones to notice their psionic neighbors.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe
they’re related.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Usually
my skin will shiver, goosebump angels drawing in, raising hairs;</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
thoughts are never for sure my own,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
channels so rabbit-eared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Watchers
so psychic and eerily ahead of you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Simply
always there to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Artfully
push along the times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One
said: “It’s nothing more, nothing less than to see things clearly.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That
I do,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sometimes.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What
it is,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who
they are,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Doesn’t
really matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They
aren’t you and me, but,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
they are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At
least they visit, or never leave,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Weave
electric the living circle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(4-7)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shrouding
a Great Mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Deep-Eye<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cloud
hunt,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
doe’s stride,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cross
the close ridge lightly.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Too
much thought burns off the lingering haze,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Makes
the mountain fog drift skittish,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Scares
the magic mist like some</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Touchy
deer smelling you on the wind,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bolting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You
catch a glimpse of ears uplifted blending into the wooded grays.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
brown-haired woman conjures clouds with her closed caramel eyes, dreams deep
rhythms in the valley,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sheathes
the hills with listening sky,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Calls
the closing wind waiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
steps slowly forward like a white-tail who senses his doe’s sleep is over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Her
ear nuzzled, the day begins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Herring Pond <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
great School’s shining million supple sheets shimmer in the quiet waters,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Twisting
silver ribbons curl like luminescent smoke,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
descend into the green spring depths of Herring Pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Articulate
fins like children’s fingers deftly trace water’s upper edge,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
the trace’s trail is resewn by the seamless stitchery of waters reappearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
shingled mirrors of their scales dart through the water-bent sun like 100’s,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
1,000’s of silver coins tossed en masse that flip and spin in the slow spring’s
rise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They
glint chaotic like a sheet of mercury shaken in a sunbeam,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Like
a million crystal windows reflecting the day’s stained glass, or</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
emerald edge of a twisting whirlpool made of spiraling metal mail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
uncountable gathering sliced the water’s dense parade.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
schoolboy’s sight or child’s dream was awestruck by such numbers:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
jewels escape the deep, living diamonds, silver dollars, all atwitch of one
mind,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
eye like one upon me, spellbound by such a swarm of shimmering, shivering life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Testimony
to the magic that seethes below each surface, be it the waking or the dream,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
billion herring of Herring Pond swam the young me past dry land and words,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
drowned me in their beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Otter Pond<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Otter
shrine knelt in pond prayer:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Immigrant
Japanese canoe-slide caretakers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brackish
sidereal Chesapeake ice-skaters,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visit
frozen spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oaks
old as Indians dead stand the daybreak watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Primal
bass survives,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Curves
through Shinto scrags,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Scoffs
lure-snagged wood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fade-away
fins disappear in green-spring depths,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Circumnavigate
sleeping Winter turtle dens</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That
support our planet on their diatomic shells,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2-headed
deep in the leaf-scattered sand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lord
Heron blasts blue wings:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Delicate
surge of brute flight by canoe slides spirit-ridden,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Circles
sunken temple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Royal
feathers alight regal, dexterous, awesome</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On
fallen trees bent reverently to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
sleeping otter’s aqueous dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><strong>~~~</strong></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">“Pillow Cats"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Photo by Charles
Peltosalo</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~ <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Minnesota Winter
Survival Skills</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Diane
Dettmann<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
following essay was originally published on the national “Women’s Voices for
Change” website. With winter knocking on our doors, I decided to share it with
FinNALA readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I’ve
lived in Minnesota my whole life and survived many winters, some of which I
actually enjoyed. Last year the Polar Vortex rolled over Minnesota and we
experienced one of the coldest, most brutal winters on record. No matter where
you went—Fleet Farm, the local grocery store or church—the winter weather was
the main topic of conversation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Many
nights, wrapped in a blanket, I sat in my favorite chair listening to the 40
mile per hour wind gusts roaring past the window and thought, “Why in the world
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">do </i>I live in this frigid state?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
guess over the years, like an animal hibernating in the winter, many
Minnesotans, including myself, have devised creative ways of coping with the
bitter wind chills and sub-zero temperatures. In case you’re planning a trip to
Minnesota any time soon or heaven forbid move here, the following list might
change your mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Minnesota Winter
Coping Skills<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Minnesota winter
fashion is all about layers—lots of them. As the temperature drops the layers
increase. You’ll know you have enough on when it hurts to bend over and pull on
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh, speaking of
boots, remember those chains drivers use to put on their tires in the winter?
Well, good news, you can actually buy them for your boots! On my daily winter
walks, I seldom leave home without them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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meals around traffic reports and weather updates, so you know how early to
leave for work in the morning or cut out in the evening to avoid the pile ups
on the freeways. Always have at least two alternate routes as backup. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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chill drops below zero, make sure you cover your face to prevent frostbite.
Bundle up even if you have to wrap your five year-old’s “Shrek” scarf around
your face. Who knows you might even start a new winter fashion fad. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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adventure? Then ice fishing might be just the sport you’re looking for. You get
a pretty darn good workout chopping that hole in the ice and who knows you
might even catch a fish before your toes turn numb. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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temperatures and bitter wind chills keep you homebound, relax knowing you have
the whole day to drink coffee, read the paper and work your crossword puzzles.
Well, this might not be the case, if your kids are cheering in the morning as
the “school closed” announcements flash across the TV screen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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power electric blanket. Before retiring, crank the dial to “high”. Wait two
hours. Pull on your flannel pajamas and socks. Crawl under the covers.
Snuggling and hot sex optional, but highly recommended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fails, head to the Mall of America, turn the kids loose at the indoor amusement
park and shop the day away. Better yet book a flight and head for a warmer
climate even a week away from the Minnesota deep freeze helps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Photo taken in 1946
on my Finnish grandparent's (Paul and Hilja Kaurala) farm in Babbitt, MN you
can see the sauna in the background.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Diane Dettmann is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Twenty-Eight Snow Angels A Widow’s Story of
Love, Loss, and Renewal</i> which was recently named runner-up in the “Beach
Book Festival Awards”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>Diane’s shared
her writing at local author events, festivals and international conferences in
Finland and Canada. Diane’s website: </span><a href="http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I lived in a one room suite at the “M&M” Hotel<br /> On 5th and Howard Streets when I got<br /> Into the city, waiting for the court<br /> To grind its beef with me<br /> Down into one edible sentence<br /> For me to eat in the Federal Penitentiary.<br /> I didn’t know the bar below the hotel;<br /> I bought my beer from the grocery store<br /> At four for a dollar and when<br /> I was read the verdict, served<br /> An abstinent 1964-1965 as refuse,<br /> Saying “No” to the killing in Vietnam and<br />“No” to the killing of President Kennedy.<br /> I got out and drank, a lout,<br /> Waking up to the aches politically buttonholed<br /> In my stomach by sugar-hungry alcohol.<br />“There had to be something to live for?” a droll<br /> Voice whispered after one-too-many “Skoals!”<br />While I sobered up, I befriended<br /> A would-be bartender from the “M&M” Hotel’s</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ground floor bar. His history was that he<br /> Served customers, mostly reporters from<br /> The old Examiner and Call-Bulletin, who were<br /> Tired of typing, wanting to talk, while<br /> Others simply lined the edges, crumpled.<br /> This bartender tendered bar and drank<br /> Only later to pass-out on the floor before<br /> His customers passed-out the swinging doors.<br /> And so the want-to-be poet and<br /> The would-be engineer sobered each other up,<br /> Until a woman drove-by in a side-car<br /> Version of a motorcycle and hit me, the poet, so<br /> That I fell into the body of her machine.<br /> She died when I was eleven months sober and her tribute<br /> Was the printing of a posthumous book of her poetry.<br /> While I wrote the instructions on how<br /> The volume was to look and feel, I could not read<br /> The internal text until thirty years after her death. Today,<br /> I’m able to write again: a little now-and-then ode, when<br /> Bee-thoughts don’t attack the strange honey as the enemy’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sitting at my computer desk, I finish
writing a response to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Song of Roland</i>,
an Iliadic, Medieval, French epic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yawning, I get up, turn on the TV, click to PBS, and recline on my
couch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I alternately peruse a geology
text to prepare for a test on desert environments and watch <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nature</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the screen, various animals hunt and feed while others hide, flee,
and are fed upon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rising and heading for
the kitchen to get a fresh glass of caffeine-free Coke, I turn down the volume
on the tube and place Judas Priest’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sad
Wings of Destiny </i>CD into my stereo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The soda goes flat on the coffee table and my textbook slips off my
chest and onto the floor as I fall asleep to the melodic “Epitaph.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Vision:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Separated
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
former comrades lie in heaps, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Twisted,
clasped to the vanquished in ghastly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Are
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Armor
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
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long forgotten lie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Victims
that cook on the crooked crucifixes.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lining
the path, dull and ragged</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shards
of shattered urns sink</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Into
the sands that cook my feet.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Beads
of sweat drench my clothes,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Which
collect the grit and dust swirling</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
the arid wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wrap my face</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With
a silk scarf and wipe my sweaty</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hands
on my stained white robe.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shrieking
vultures shred corpses</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Caked
in grime lying mangled</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Along
the trail, slumped over</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stumps,
or impaled on rusted iron</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Spits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Skulking scavengers gorge</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Themselves
on green and gray entrails</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
rotting tissue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Distant cliffs</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Distorted
in heat mirage echo</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Howls
of rabid canines calling</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Packs
to hunt in sage-littered</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dry
gulches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A steamy wind blows</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Across
the valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silt slung</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By
sudden gusts pelts my garments,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Slips
through layers, grates against</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My skin, and stings me eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Along
a strip of bushes budding </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Under
brown leaves of twisted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Trees,
a ten-foot-long lizard</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lurks,
lunges at a browsing buck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jagged
teeth gouge and tear </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Gaping
gashes in thin hide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Infected
by the beast’s acidic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Drool,
the deer leaps away, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But
weakens day by day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
taste of larvae-laced meat</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
the air, the lizard finds the stag</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Standing,
stomping, and snorting, but unable</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To
flee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Claws clutch hind </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Quarters,
fangs flay open flesh.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hisses
greet groans; jaws</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Grind
gristle and bone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A challenger </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Smells
the kill, advances to steal</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The giant reptiles rush,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rip
into each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Incisors </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dripping
disease slice through scales</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
pierce limbs and paunches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the duel</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Drags
on, a tiger pounces from cover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
carries the carcass away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
I walk onward—</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Toward
whatever lies ahead—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
sword hacks into hungry boars</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Charging
from behind brush and slashes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Serpents
lashing at my legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drawn </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
raised, my gleaming steel blade</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Carves
carnivores, drips blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Seeking
a secure place to rest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
view the wretched void around me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
climb a crumbling mesa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A cooler</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Breeze
blows atop the narrow </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A drink from a flask of water</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Refreshes
my mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few dates</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
bits of bread sustain my strength.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wine
lifts my spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below me,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Drifting
dunes and stranded stands</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Of
stunted trees stretch to hazy</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Horizons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sandstone towers loom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Above
desert pavement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pale</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Clouds
hover motionless over </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sheer
shale cliffs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Canyons and chasms</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Divide
barren plateaus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With my blade</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cleaned,
sharpened, and sheathed, I descend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
renew my search for a stream that will lead me</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Out
of this horrid land. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The Gateway Arch</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">An arch between America and Finland<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">By Mirjam Rand,
Photo by Eero Sorila</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Respected as one of the masters of American
20th century architecture, Eero Saarinen (1910 -1961) was born in Finland on
the 37th birthday of his famous architect father Eliel Saarinen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A landmark seen by many Americans of Finnish
background is the Helsinki Railway Station Designed by Eliel Saarinen. At age
13 Eero moved to the United States with his family. In 1929 he was a student of
sculpture in Paris, France and completed his studies at the Yale School of
Architecture in 1934. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">In the
United States there is a long list of architectural monuments by Eero Saarinen
including the Gateway Arch in St Louis Missouri. In 1948 he won the design
competition for the Gateway Arch, which was completed in the 1960s, but the
reward was sent to his father by mistake. Father and son settled the situation
in good humor. The cost of construction for the Arch was 13 million dollars. In
today’s currency that price would be $97,300,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">This
stainless steel arch, on the west bank of the Mississippi River, sits where the
city of St. Louis began. Gateway Arch was built to honor President Thomas Jefferson,
the explorers Lewis and Clark, and the settlement that fur traders Pierre
Laclede and Auguste Chouteau started here in 1764.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Gateway
Arch is the tallest memorial in the United States and is the highest arch in
the world. Earthquake proof and with footings embedded<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>60 feet deep, the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>630 foot arch is a hollow stainless steel
tube that can sway up to nine inches in either direction. It can stand winds of
up to 150 miles per hour. Inside the tube a lift system takes visitors to the
observation deck at the top. Over four million people visit the Gateway Arch
annually. This landmark is fittingly an arch between the United States and
Finland.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The
Gateway Arch by Eero Saarinen in St Louis, the highest Arch in the world stands
proudly piercing the sky at 630 ft. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Mirjam
Rand's latest literary project <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American
Monuments</i>: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Stories Behind Our
Icons</i> makes an ideal gift. It includes the Gateway Arch and 25 other
American monuments. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Xlibris USA ISBN: 978-1-4990-4336-5 Tel:
1-888-795-4274</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Drifts</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">By
Eila Savela<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In winter we forget.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So much lies buried</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">under the weight of drifts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Strangely, the first flurries fall in
gentle waves,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">floating in translucent swells.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On contact, the heavy flakes dissolve</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 1em 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Into wet beads, pooling in quicksilver</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">streams that drip from the underbrush
and eaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Autumn’s embers sputter in the wet snow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The vague dread that filters through</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">as autumn withers and dies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">never prepares us for the coldest
season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At best, we recall senseless fragments,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">numbed feelings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">purged of the traumatic elements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nothing prepares us for the shock of
arctic air,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the shatter of crazed ice beneath our
feet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the stinging slap of freezing sleet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">mixed with snow and bitter grief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cursed winds rip through the fragments,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">stripping the season bare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Only the husks of wild, perfumed
flowers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">barren stalks,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">break through the snow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Colors fade to monotonous tones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">of ivory and grey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Following the edge of lean shadows,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the waning light lingers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">on birch trees glazed with ice,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">stranded in snow that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">blankets the cold, hard earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">in slow, silent drifts,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">buried under the weight of snow</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">~~~</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">An
Old Midwife’s Tale</span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(excerpt)</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">By E. Savela</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Great-Aunt
Aili was teaching me to make a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">himmeli</i>,
a traditional Finnish Christmas decoration, meaning a labor-intensive pain in
the you-know-what. We sat across from each other at the kitchen table, sorting
and cutting straw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It was time for one of her stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“When I was a girl, younger than you, I
used to help <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">äiti<a href="file:///C:/Users/tmartin/Documents/tmar/FinNALA/November%202014/FinNANA%20News%20November%202014.doc#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #336699;">[i]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></i>
milk the cows. Back then we didn’t have machines but did the milking by
hand—did everything by hand, don’t you know. But I didn’t mind. They were such
lovely cows . . . Muurikki, Mansikki, and Mairikki.” She leaned across the
table.“Have I ever told you about the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tontut</i>?”<a href="file:///C:/Users/tmartin/Documents/tmar/FinNALA/November%202014/FinNANA%20News%20November%202014.doc#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #336699;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“The what? What the heck are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tonttus</i>?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tontus</i>
. . . <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tontut</i>. They’re the barn
elves.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“You’re telling me that there are little
elves in tights and pointy caps hanging out in the barn?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“No, of course not. And don’t look at me
like that. I’m talking about real elves now.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Despite myself I was intrigued. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“They’re earth spirits. You can’t see
them, except maybe a glimpse from the corner of your eye. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Äiti</i> saw them, though. She said they’re like baubles of light,
flitting here and there.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“How do you know they’re real?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Oh, seeing isn’t the only way of
believing. I could feel their presence, especially in the hayloft, where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">äiti</i> left offerings for them.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Offerings? Like what?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Usually a bowl of cream or a slice of
buttered rye bread, sometimes a piece of cheese. And she sang to them when she
did the milking, to keep mischief makers at bay.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Mischief makers?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Keitolaiset<a href="file:///C:/Users/tmartin/Documents/tmar/FinNALA/November%202014/FinNANA%20News%20November%202014.doc#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #336699;">[iii]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></i>
and shape-shifters, bears and wolves.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She had to be kidding. But I could
usually tell when she was joking and she seemed to be perfectly serious, even
distracted, lost in the depths of memory. Then she began to sing in a low husky
tone:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pikku
tontut, navetan tontut</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">kuule
lauluni.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kiltit
tontut, navetan tontut,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">suojele
mei’än karjaa—</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">kaunis
Mairikki, tumma Muurikki,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">punainen
Mansikki—</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ja
tuokaa makeaa kermaa.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kiltit
tontut, navetan tontut</span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-align: left;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">kuule
lauluni.<a href="file:///C:/Users/tmartin/Documents/tmar/FinNALA/November%202014/FinNANA%20News%20November%202014.doc#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #336699;">[iv]</span></span></b></span></span></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A soft, sad silence followed. With a sigh,
Aunt Aili roused herself. “Oh, it’s been too long since I’ve heard that song.”</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“How long?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Let me think. Since <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">isä</i>,<a href="file:///C:/Users/tmartin/Documents/tmar/FinNALA/November%202014/FinNANA%20News%20November%202014.doc#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #336699;">[v]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
your great-grandfather Kalervo, was killed in the mines. That would have been
the summer of ’23. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Äiti</i> was too busy
to do the milking anymore. Your grandfather Tero and I took over.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“What happened to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tontut</i>? Did Grandpa Tero leave them
offerings, too?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“No, but I did. I was under strict
orders from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">äiti</i> to keep them happy .
. . or else.”</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Or else what?”</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“You don’t want to know.”</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">_________<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">i. Mother. Great-Aunt Aili’s mother
was my paternal great-grandmother Marjatta, who emigrated from Finland to
Minnesota with her husband Kalervo Koski in 1910.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ii. Brownies.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">iii. Malevolent elves.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">iv. Little elves, barn elves, hear
my song. Kind elves, barn elves, protect our livestock—beautiful Sweetie, dusky
Blackie, red Strawberry—and bring sweet cream. Kind elves, barn elves, hear my
recitation</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">v. Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~ <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Museum Piece</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Kaarina Brooks<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Look! A skimmer!</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Haven’t seen one
in years.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Not since we
were</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">at Aunt Elsa’s
farm in ’49.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And look at that
butter churn!</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Just like Aunt
Elsa’s!</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The cream
refused to turn to butter</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">till she took
over the churning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There’s a
what-cha-ma-callit!</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Grandpa used one
just like that</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to slice slats
from pine logs</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and weave them
into baskets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hey, aren't
those skis a hoot!</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With leather
straps</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to use with
curly-toe boots.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I had a pair
like that…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My God!</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I just realized—</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">my whole life is</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in a museum</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~ <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two Poems<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Wendy S
Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">This Morning the
Doctor Said Cancer<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ruby
is talking to her garden,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
her knees with her trowel</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
those old pink gloves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An
ocean is coming, she says,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
it will race into my head,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tumble
over rocks and moss and thorny spots,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">fill
every nook</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">with
salt and sand</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
the deep-green smell of foam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Anemones
will float</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from
the reef of my hair,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">my
nose will be a shell,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">my
lips a perfect blue stone.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
will not look after you, she says,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">my
hands as useless and frail as fog.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
rest of me will be given to seaweed</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that
tangles up my ears</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
muffles everything but waves</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pitching
up, then down, then back again,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">sweeping
me along. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Little Miss<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
was always falling</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">or
running into things,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">an
inelegant, clumsy child.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Like
the time she limped</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
wore those purple-gold</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">arms
to third grade, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">or
that bright violet eye</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">one
day to high school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
said later</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">she
didn’t much</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">recall
her girlhood</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">but
for one recurring dream:</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">her
father, </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
the floor </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">by
her bed,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">waxed
like a candle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
would light him up,</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">her
fear melting</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as
he burned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border: currentColor; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wendy Anderson’s book <i>An
Ancient Trail to Home</i>, Finishing Line Press, Kentucky will be out soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></o:p></div>
<o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~~</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong> </strong>
</span></span></div>
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literary and scholarly community in Finnish-North-American Literature, and support
FinNALA simultaneously. Renew your membership on line or by mail.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text">FinNALA, </span></span></div>
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FinNALA is planning to have a booth at the tori at FinnFest 2014 in
Minneapolis. For a small fee of $25 US, you can have your work for sale there,
too. If want to make your book(s) available at FinnFest 2014 (Aug. 7-10) in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, then FinNALA has a great opportunity for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For
a modest $25.00 (U.S.) fee, FinNALA will:<br />
1. display your book on its
table in the Tori for the duration of FinnFest<br />
2. keep a small reserve supply
to replace sold books<br />
3. keep a record of all books
sold & pay each author for sales of their books <br />
4. keep you from having to pay
the $300 fee to rent and staff your own sale table<br />
5. staff the FinNALA during all
regular Tori hours of the FinnFest.<br />
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We think this will be a great opportunity for our authors to gain exposure and
to make some money, whether they can attend or not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If you’re interested and will be present at FinnFest, please contact me as soon
as possible at bethlvirtanen at yahoo.com. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If you are unable to attend FinnFest and wish for your books to be sold at the
FinNALA table, please contact the FinNALA president at the email address above
so we can make arrangements to make your book available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
am working on research for two projects in which I am engaged. The first is to
update the FinNALA bibliography, and the second is for a presentation I have
been asked to give regarding the current state of Finnish-American literature
and its critical analysis for FinnFest 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To
that end, I am requesting that all of our active authors, poets and scholars in
the Finnish North-American literary and literary scholarship communities share
with me a list of their most recent publications, those since 2000, and where
they have been placed. I want the updated bibliography to serve as a robust
tool by which to record the accomplishments of our collective literary and
scholarly output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, as I
present on the latest developments in our broad community, I want to have a
sense of the depth and breadth of our considerable work. Your help will ensure
that I don’t overlook any aspect of our literary and critical output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Please
do send a list of your publications to me at bethlvirtanen at yahoo.com. With
your contributions, I will strive to make a comprehensive update of the
bibliography on our website and use it along with other research products within
the presentation I will make to the larger cultural community at FinnFest in
the Twin Cities this summer. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">16<sup>th</sup> annual Sibelius Academy
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featuring extraordinary musicians from the famed Sibelius Music Academy of
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north-central Maine, where most men logged or labored in slate pits and
factories. Her own father was a meat cutter, who worked long and hard to feed
five kids, while her mother sometimes broke under the demands of household
drudgery. The poems chronicle life in the woods, and Anderson’s growth into
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<span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">Since her inauguration in 1886, the Statue of
Liberty has welcomed emigrants into the United States. Over the years,
multitudes of Finnish people have immigrated to America, and today an estimated
600,000 Americans with Finnish background live in the United States. The Statue
of Liberty deserves a very special place among the American Monuments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and a milky curve of moon nestles in her thighs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Her belly is a canopy of night sounds,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of cricket chirps and frog croaks,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">of April runoff and January hail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Birds soar straight down her legs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">into trying too soon to fly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She follows an ancient trail to home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She is a fawn feeding on my flowers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">a fox sniffing at my windows,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">a fat cub, curled up and cozy in my chair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She is going out the back door</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and coming in the front,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">landing like a flock of geese on the rug,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">all her squawks and busyness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">causing a ruckus and lighting up the house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She is a thunderstorm just started</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">a lightning shower at peak,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and finally a dome of crisp, clear sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">She is my first star.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Two Poems </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">by </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Gary V. Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finnish
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She pats the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dusty step,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">isuta</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Neither of us </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">know the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">importance of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">clean steps to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">signal the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">condition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">inside this </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finnish home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">Set</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">ä</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">Finnish for Uncle</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">I was born the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">day his body,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">free of the B17 Bomber,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">before I was born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">his brother,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;">let alone the mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Three Poems </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Diane
Dettman<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Evening Fog<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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The river flows in
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Fog drifts at dusk.</div>
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Nestled in the valley,</div>
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Like warm</div>
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Butterscotch pudding,</div>
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Her beauty soothes</div>
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The soul. </div>
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Soft wisps of fog</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Crow</span></b></div>
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Flap,</div>
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Glide,</div>
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Soar.</div>
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He
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Against
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He
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Brash
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Through
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Morning
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And get us on the run.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Why do we dislike these rainy days?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">They trap us deep inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Maybe it’s because we’re alone,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">From ourselves we cannot hide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Enjoy a rainy day to read or write,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Or take time to call a friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">They’re precious moments to refresh our souls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oh, rainy day—don’t end</span>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Diane Dettmann’s the author
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Twenty-Eight Snow Angels A Widow’s Story of
Love, Loss, and Renewal</i>, named runner-up in the national “Beach Book Festival
Awards”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>Diane’s shared her writing
at local authors’ events, festivals and international conferences in Finland
and Canada. Both books are available online at Barnes and Noble and Amazon. To
order go to Diane’s website at: </span><a href="http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels</span></span></a></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">~~~</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Michael King</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Birds Caught</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A swallow caught in netting that surrounds a patch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">of tubers near a mountaintop attempts to flit </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the web I skirt to climb a stairway carved in clay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Outside a tunnel dwelling at a plot atop </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the treeless peak, stiff gusts from the seashore beyond </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">flap tarps at inland spines, which stare to tower blocks </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and cranes above the town below, enshrined in smog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I descend through a maze of bamboo mounds where tombs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">decay beneath crops. Some gravesites sport flowers laced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">with shreds of firecrackers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among
the weeds along </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a fence, a pheasant snared in scrapped cord flops about </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">for flight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cut the tangled
lines from bloodied legs.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">to preserve their power, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">the profit of oppression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Then they accuse access, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">condemn conscience, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and inter truth under</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">mausoleums of mass murderers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They employ materialism </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">to temper their tyranny.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The Statue of
Liberty</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">(</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">American Monuments: The Stories Behind Our
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">This
statue in New York Harbour has been a symbol of freedom for millions since its
inauguration in 1886. The words of Emma Lazarus are inscribed on the base:
“Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the
French to the People of the United States, marking the US centennial of 1876.
Frederic- Auguste Bartholdi designed and named the statue Liberty Enlightening
the World. It was initially intended to be a lighthouse for New York Harbour
traffic. Attempts to illuminate the torch failed and lights were installed
instead to shine on the statue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">This monument, with its pedestal, stands 305
feet high. Copper sheeting covers a steel armature designed by Gustave Eiffel,
who also designed the Eiffel Tower in Paris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In her left arm, Liberty holds a tablet inscribed with the date, July 4,
1776. The extended right arm has a staircase inside it. Since 1916 public
traffic to the torch balcony is no longer permitted. 354 steps lead to the
crown, which is open to the public but limited to 240 people per day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of peace and hope, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most enduring and
beloved of American monuments.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">For
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prison camp mornings</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Uniformed by minds:</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">cut to weigh equally,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">evidenced hard, loafed in ovens,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">pronounced guilty of hunger,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">then disposed of as trash-crime.</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Weather or Not</span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white;">When the glisten of fallen rain</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">echoes from the tops of plank fence,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">at that point when vision dies,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to be caught between afternoon and night,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">how am I to define the real,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">either in head or beyond, with a</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">relishing imagination which glints of hints?</span></span></div>
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Dead aware, cold and smart as clear bright stones.</div>
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Into its’ white, green, white shimmering center,</div>
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Through Creation’s plasmic sheets of layered light,<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will make my flight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Deep down the bright blue stratic bands I will sift,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Flow, penetrate, notch in ambient speed as tower clouds boom,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Race billowing past me, furious with weather’s moods,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Time’s shades, as horizon lines explode all in grey dark nimbus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By trebled speed, cubed and squared,<o:p></o:p></div>
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They burst deca-1,000’s of feet in thrusted columnar ascents.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unbridled blooms transmogrify to angels’ form,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hold angels’ court while mystery birds swirl thundered sky,</div>
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Divide Creation’s great bowl and bath with flash of feather, flash of
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Both human and human-not appear, gravitous to compass lines from</div>
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The All-Black’s very edge,</div>
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Are splayed to mighty quarters,</div>
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Set spinning to sidereal standards in this sparse amber of the forever
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From my continent’s sunken seed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Growth proceeds, retreats; I orbit and approach all throbbing,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matter spirit-born.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I grow as tree rings, ride circles outward:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jewels, spheres and interstice of cloud,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Skein of wind, sashay organs, leaf and oak,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Calling the subtle music of the minerals’ bonded dance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My planet’s covers shift and sway,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mountains skid towards seas’ advance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In consummate celebration, a quartz-grained nitrogen escapes<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through cubes of light, through ioned seines of air.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will join in trust my fellow delicates tied to these gnashing grand
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Bonded mysteriously to the glitter-stone at our smart center,<o:p></o:p></div>
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from that center, I will stand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lateral greens, vertical whites; my ultimate power dancer,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Radiate, rebound all light bent here,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bend it to kindred tongue, one luxuriant, deft of phrase,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sling these echoes back from all these echoe<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>s
heard. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Point the hungry mirrors outward, Polisher of Glass,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Magnify and send the solar mind speeding to its’ 6 corners.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mute the outside clash.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Separate the still and silent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Magnify the colors’ dance down to white….green…white…<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> ~~~</o:p></div>
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Put on leather boots, come walking.</div>
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Spread your woolen wings, let’s fly.</div>
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Sprout your feathers, we’ll go crowing,</div>
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Roostering with wild cries.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Climb above the yawning valley,</div>
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Smell the cottonwoods awake.</div>
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Leave this town while it’s still early,</div>
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Dance to music meadows make.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let’s dodge corn-snow sugar-coating hilltops,</div>
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Steal the most precious time of day.</div>
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Just one more time, let’s close our workshops,</div>
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And mingle with the clouds at play.</div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Witches in the park weaving new blades of Spring
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Ignore the rain-dark crowds who bustle by city-like in sidewalk-straight
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Witch by rock, facing East, witch by tree, facing South,</div>
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Combine their notions,</div>
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Chase the clouds away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Staid flora rises from the moist carpet ground, inherits soil’s power,</div>
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Invokes solar rights, conjures ancient blue.</div>
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Brilliant white horizons contrary to the grey and windy way</div>
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Dance the clouds away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Publication of the Finnish North American Literature
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Beth Virtanen, President</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<span class="text">FinNALA, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Offer your books for sale <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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FinNALA is planning to have a booth at the tori at FinnFest 2014 in
Minneapolis. For a small fee of $25 US, you can have your work for sale there,
too. If want to make your book(s) available at FinnFest 2014 (Aug. 7-10) in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, then FinNALA has a great opportunity for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For
a modest $25.00 (U.S.) fee, FinNALA will:<br />
1. display your book on its
table in the Tori for the duration of FinnFest<br />
2. keep a small reserve supply
to replace sold books<br />
3. keep a record of all books
sold & pay each author for sales of their books <br />
4. keep you from having to pay
the $300 fee to rent and staff your own sale table<br />
5. staff the FinNALA during all
regular Tori hours of the FinnFest.<br />
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We think this will be a great opportunity for our authors to gain exposure and
to make some money, whether they can attend or not. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If you’re interested and will be present at FinnFest, please contact me as soon
as possible at bethlvirtanen at yahoo.com. <br />
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If you are unable to attend FinnFest and wish for your books to be sold at the
FinNALA table, please contact the FinNALA president at the email address above
so we can make arrangements to make your book available.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Feature
Your Work, Product or Services in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis!
The FinnFest 2014 issue</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Finnish North American Literature Association (FinNALA) is
seeking advertisers interested in marketing their merchandise, publications, services,
and more to a Finnish-North American literary audience and the community that
supports them.<br />
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We have advertising space available in Kippis!<br />
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Ad rates are modest and support the publication and dissemination of literary
work by a multicultural and multinational group of poets and writers.<br />
Advertising rates and sizes are listed below:<br />
One-eight page (business card) $30<br />
One-fourth page $50<br />
One-half page $80<br />
One-page $150<br />
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Send your print-ready ad copy and contact information to Beth Virtanen, FinNALA
President, <br />
at bethlvirtanen at yahoo dot com. If you wish the Kippis! team to design
your ad, please do email us (bethlvirtanen at yahoo dot com), and we can work
together on layout and <br />
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payable to "FinNALA" to <br />
Beth Virtanen, President, FinNALA, P.O. Box 212, L'Anse, MI 49946 USA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Scholarly Publication Updates!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hi
everyone!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
am working on research for two projects in which I am engaged. The first is to
update the FinNALA bibliography, and the second is for a presentation I have
been asked to give regarding the current state of Finnish-American literature
and its critical analysis for FinnFest 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To
that end, I am requesting that all of our active authors, poets and scholars in
the Finnish North-American literary and literary scholarship communities share
with me a list of their most recent publications, those since 2000, and where
they have been placed. I want the updated bibliography to serve as a robust tool
by which to record the accomplishments of our collective literary and scholarly
output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, as I present on the
latest developments in our broad community, I want to have a sense of the depth
and breadth of our considerable work. Your help will ensure that I don’t
overlook any aspect of our literary and critical output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Please
do send a list of your publications to me at bethlvirtanen at yahoo.com. With
your contributions, I will strive to make a comprehensive update of the
bibliography on our website and use it along with other research products
within the presentation I will make to the larger cultural community at
FinnFest in the Twin Cities this summer. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks
so much!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Beth
Virtanen, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">President,
FinNALA<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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submissions for our FinnFest 2014 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>edition, which take place in early august.
There will be a printed and online version of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis!</i>. Submissions will be accepted through <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">June 15</b>, so don’t hesitate to polish up those great pieces of work
and get them into us. Surprisingly, we are running a little lean on poetry, so
keep that in mind. Submissions of fiction, nonfiction, essay and other prose
are being sought as well. We can’t guarantee fame and fortune but, if your work
is accepted, you will be read by a thoughtful and sympathetic audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Send submissions to gkwuori at hotmail
dot com. Please request submission guidelines if you are not familiar with
them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">16<sup>th</sup> annual Sibelius Academy
Music Festival<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finlandia
University will be sponsoring its sixteenth consecutive music festival
featuring extraordinary musicians from the famed Sibelius Music Academy of
Helsinki, Finland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This year’s festival will take place
from September 21-26, with concerts in Chicago, Houghton/Hancock and Calumet,
Michigan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pianist <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kristina Annamukhamedova</b> will present a classical repertoire
including Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Sibelius. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A cappella female vocal group, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ensemble
Norma</b><em>, </em>will perform cutting-edge
music, which straddles folk, pop and jazz.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For more information, please visit the Finlandia
University website at <a href="http://www.finlandia.edu/sibelius"><span style="color: #336699;">www.finlandia.edu/sibelius</span></a>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">Finn<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Waino W.
Korpela<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Excerpts of book review of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finn</i>, by Jane Lepisto Published initially in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finnish American Reporter</i>-October 2013.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Editor
Ernest Korpela describes the book “Finn” as a “collection of writings by Waino
W. Korpela which embodies a host of perceptions of his father’s native land-its
people, its history, its culture, its struggle for self-determination, its <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sisu, </i>and its perspective on life.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He has
lovingly and painstakingly collected his late brother’s works into this book .
. . The readings evoked memories of their family, home, sauna, electric fence,
camp in the woods, Model-A pick up, long school bus rides and times we shared
visiting one another’s kitchens . . .He has used that legacy to weave the
history of his father’s native land and perseverance of its people into a
tapestry which depicts the Finns’ heritage of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sisu</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Submitted by Ernest
Korpela with the permission of Jane Lepisto and the Finnish American
Reporter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Copies of “Finn” can be
obtained from Ernest Korpela at (715) 742-3349 or by emailing him at:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Korpela at cheqnet.net<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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The New Orphic Review </h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ernest
Hekkanen and Margrith Schraner have just finished publishing the Spring issue
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Orphic Review</i>, entitled
“e-Hobbyists in the Land of e-Literature”. It contains work by writers from New
York, Kentucky, Maine, Colorado and British Columbia.</span><br />
For more information contact hekkanen at telus dot net<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Night Train Red Dust</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Poems from the Iron Range<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Sheila Packa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Book review by Leah Rogne, PhD</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sheila Packa’s poetry is at once
deeply personal and widely universal in its evocative exploration of
fundamental human experience. Using the red ore dust with which she was raised,
she paints vivid images of birth and death, work and struggle, hope and
despair. Packa captures the unrest of immigrants leaving their homes in Finland
and the unrest of the bitter labor union conflicts of the early days of
twentieth century on the Iron Range of northeastern Minnesota. At the same as
she chronicles events from the broad sweep of history as the country extracted
iron ore from the ground and labor from the immigrants, she shares tender
stories from daily life, using the micro-lens of her personal experience</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Especially arresting is the way Packa weaves into her book
material from historical sources, including newspaper accounts of the union
organizing efforts of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and reports on the gritty work of
physicians who tended to the medical needs of the miners and their families in
the early days. Women —whether in the mines or on hardscrabble farms — are
equal players in Packa’s Iron Range, a refreshing treatment of a region often
seen as differentially the province of the male. From the story of men and
women fighting for their survival and dignity in the days of industrialization
to the image of a fragile grouse in the gunsights of a hunter contemplating its
mortality, Packa captures the beauty and the contradictions of the place and
times that have made the Iron Range iconic in history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sheila Packa. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Night Train Red Dust: Poems of the Iron
Range</i>. (Wildwood River Press / distributed through Ingram). ISBN:
978-0-9843777-7-0.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book’s website is
here: <a href="http://www.nighttrainreddust.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">www.nighttrainreddust.com</span></a>
and its Twitter account is @nighttrainred <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Prose, Poetry, & Memoir</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">A Father’s Day Tribute</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Diane Dettman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in memory of</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her
father, Harold Elleson, who passed away in June, 1987 at the age of
sixty-eight.</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
father was the oldest child and only son in his family. He became a survivor at
the age of nineteen when his father, a locomotive fireman for the Omaha
railroad, was killed in a train accident on August 6, 1937. With the tragic
loss of his father, my dad became the primary provider for his mother and two
younger sisters. The railroad company compensated the family by guaranteeing
him a permanent job with the railroad. After he completed his machinist
apprenticeship, he began repairing locomotives on the Chicago Northwestern
railroad in a dingy roundhouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota— not exactly his
“dream job.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In 1944, a justice of the peace united
my parents in holy matrimony and in 1945 my brother Tom was born. A couple
years later, I arrived early when my mother—startled by a bird—fell and broke
her leg. Tucked in an incubator at the hospital and my mother at home with her
leg in a cast, I depended on my father’s “milk deliveries” to sustain me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I know those daily visits bonded us. As
I grew older, I loved snuggling into his lap as he read the Little Golden Books
to me at bedtime. When he arrived home from the work in the afternoons, he
often gave me a gentle whisker rub and let me eat the cookies left over in his
lunch box. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dad wasn’t much of a travelin’ man. Our
summer vacations often consisted of trips to my Finnish grandparents’ farm in
Babbitt, Minnesota during haying season. In 1955, we took our one and only
family summer road trip to Alhambra, California to visit my dad’s mother. With
the windows rolled down, my older brother and I sat in the back seat of the
Plymouth fighting as the “Burma Shave” signs flew by. The trip seemed endless
with the rumble of the wind whipping past the windows, the country western
twang crackling on the radio and my nine month-old brother fussing in the front
seat. My father was happy when we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">finally</i>
arrived in Alhambra—well, at least for a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">His excitement for California waned
quickly. Fed up with the Los Angeles traffic and endless visits with distant
relatives, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad’s patience maxed out.
Early one morning he packed us back in the car and drove all night through the
desert. After spending several nights in cheap motels, we arrived back in
Minnesota.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My dad was an “every day guy” dedicated
to his family, a wonderful provider and a loving man. When I married my husband
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John in 1972, my father walked me down
the aisle with a very serious look on his face. At the reception John turned to
my father and said, “I’ll take good care of her.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My dad answered, “You better”. Then he
smiled and winked at me. I thought <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that’s
my dad!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Diane Dettmann’s the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow’s Story of
Love, Loss and Renewal</i>, her story of starting over after the sudden death
of her loving husband. She’s also the coauthor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants,</i> about Finnish grandparents,
Paul and Hilja Kaurala raising seven children in Embarrass, Minnesota in the
1920s.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>She is a contributing author
for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Women’s Voices for Change</i>
website and has presented her books at various venues including international
conferences in Finland and Canada. Information on Diane Dettmann’s website:
http://www.outskirtspress.com/snowangels<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Ghost Riders of Elysium</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from</i> “Lightning Ride: a Descent by
Bicycle)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Michael King<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Entering
and sprinting over the meadows of Elysium on my trophy-taking mount, Greek and
Trojan heroes hover on opposite banks of Lethe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The tonic of oblivion tempts, and they indulge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">While the downpour steams, the phantom
of Rampant Redline Ray, the fastest cruiser pilot that I ever knew, whips
alongside me on a burnished ruby sled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Another ghostly rider, on a polished pearl sleigh, follows Ray’s wheels
closely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Who are we chasing across these fields
we must haunt forever?” the second shade asks Ray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They pull ahead and block us in a blur;
Custom Cruiser heeds.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“It’s Rhyming Rider,” Red answers. “I
knew from the sight of the Pouch of Pallas slinging from the shoulders of a
Schwinn rider,” he sighs. “Besides, what other initiate of our sport would dive
into the depths of damnation, and what other driver would dare the temptation
of our Dreary Lethe.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Pedaling Poet, to what end have you
come? To ride the trails of oblivion as we do? Trust me, no trails here below
match the majesty of the trails of life above. Linger no longer than to tell us
of the racing up there,” says First-Turn-First Phil, whom I suddenly
recognize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Let me loiter long enough to learn from
you, my loyal teammates, some tournament-tested techniques, so with them I may
bring you triumph under the sun,” I plead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I attempt an embrace, shoulders of nothingness fly from my
grasp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“My friends, why do you slip
away?” I ask. “Let me touch your sweating sinews once before I return to the
above,” I beg.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My friends answer together, “We have no
fibers, and we no longer sweat, though our tournaments never end as we chase
untouchable trophies here in our hazy internment camp. So, tell us, who is
champion now?” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“You are the only champions I know.
Certainly, my mentors, you have won eternal fame for your exploits,” I reply,
chilled.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Better to be a novice above than a champion
below,” they say together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We did not
ride well enough, we suppose, as we now ride only the fading tracks in our
failing imaginations. So, our comrade on wheels, complete whatever mission it
is you have embarked upon by racing over those far crags you see to the south
of the headwaters of forgetfulness.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Surely, one lap around these fields can
do no harm. Let’s race once around in remembrance,” I protest.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“One lap and you will be thirsty; one
sip of Lethe and you will be lost, like us. The trail you must follow to
rejoice again in the light of Day will be test enough of your mettle. Rhyming
Rider, race away.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that they retreat,
listless on their shadowy mounts, behind the veil of violently pounding rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Two Poems by Michael King<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Schoodic Lake
Sunrise<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At
late fall’s dawn I’m set up on a boulder on </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
bank, before camp’s picture window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Purple and </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">vermillion
stretch above the eastern skyline, tips </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of
trees obscured by mist that sets upon the lake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stubborn
undulations meet rocks, spray ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
loon’s </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">wail
haunts as orange glows sneak upward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Contrasted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
grey waves they coat, evergreens contend with browns.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
the sun climbs up, pours its bronze and gold onto <br />
the surface, where a beam of ivory reaches out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
me, beneath a hardwood’s bare possessive limbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">While
shutter clicks record the scene, breakfast scents creep </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">over
brush and rise with cinders left by last night’s blaze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Stingray<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
color of candy-red lips, she drips </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Raw
torque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blown V8 muscle claws and rips</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rubber
into any surface we meet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On
the unpredictable path called street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">No
Ford or Dodge can catch her stinging rays.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
shift her gears and the gas pedal stays </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pinned
to the floor as we blaze down the road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
slides through a sweeper and we explode </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Onto
a straightaway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trees look like sticks—</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Doin’
one-thirty-five gives me a fix. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
love to fly in her fiberglass shell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
engine whines as we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hot Rod to Hell</i>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
outrun all in a mad power surge,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Until
screaming steel and flames kill the urge.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">A Last Eve in Nepal’s Eden<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Russell
Jokela</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(1998 Journal
Excerpt)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As I write these lines now I sit on a
riverbank before the close of a most perfect and beautiful evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sun has set – a fiery orb beyond an
African savannah it seems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sky
darkens and we’ve just returned from our final outing: observing birds, poling
on the great Crocodile River, and watching the sun descend beyond its Himalayan
valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the jungle loses color now
and turns silhouette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We hear river fowl
call and clack, the air quiets, and the river’s trundle turns distinctly
melodious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wilds seem more peaceful
in the dark, soothing the solemn mood of this final evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dare we say goodbye?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Good evening last light that slips from this
page, allowing these thoughts and feelings, and leaves us alone again!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shall not know this day again, except that
it repeats itself in the fruition of tomorrow; a reincarnation of endless
spells carried out on the landscape of eternity.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As all remnants of light disappear, we
take candle-lit showers in thatched huts, eat with others in the dinner
rotunda, and thereafter retire with forest guides and camp staff to the
open-air fireside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We kept rhythm to a
sweet old guitar, told stories of the forest, of the day, the animals we
encountered, and some we didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
stars were as numerous as the myriad leaves overhead, through which our silent
moments rose with the sparks and wisps of the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps only my eyes traced their movements,
up through the thicket of nodding leaves to the stars there, and made out
Orion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His scabbard is a kind of map,
for reasons only the ancient Egyptians knew, to lay out the pyramids at Giza.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a mystery that leads me from my
companions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nature is full of these
mysteries, as we came to reflect upon again, out here in the jungles of Nepal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How little we know and how much we’ve
forgotten, removing ourselves, as we have, from the wilds is another mystery in
itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our lives now are a scratching
of the surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The things we know, and
the things we attend to, often being too complicated, are beside the point.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The stories of the stars, the stories of
the animals, of the forest, of rivers, the stories of time, and of great
mountains, are written on the palms of our hands, in the beat of our hearts, in
the instant you hold your breath and observe nothing but the wealth of the
moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are rich beyond measure, of a
wealth that does not burden, and needs no accountant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a wealth the self-same as air, which
all alike have equal share.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Driving off through the open plains in
the morning, the jungle now behind us, I realized what the wilds give to us
that we cannot leave behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Horsefly and Jade Spider</span></b><br />
<strong></strong> </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Russell
Jokela</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(at Kuwadori,
July 2000)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On my first day of cleaning and
preparing the old thatched-roof house for our Meister School meeting in August,
as I was organizing the trash in the ‘doma,’ or entryway, my ear was caught by
the sound of a madly buzzing insect near a small overhead window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe it caught my attention because it
was fairly loud and incessant, and therefore that of a large fly or bee, as
opposed to a less notable small bug or housefly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another point which caught my attention and
had me look was that it seemed to be rather immobile, as if as usual ramming
into the window’s glass for its light, but there was no sound of it hitting the
glass or flying to and fro.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then as I finally looked, it hung
suspended from a single strand of a spider’s web, and spun madly in circles;
not circles with radius, but circles as though the web strand were a rigid axis
which pierced its body, and around that by its own locomotion spun.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The fly was, as I know it, a ‘horsefly’,
which are commonly nearing an inch in length and quite strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His or her mad endeavor was no doubt to
escape, and she flit and spun with great force and frenzy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I wondered that she might escape, the
odds seeming in her favor, the opponent being a single strand of web.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the strand did not seem to give way.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">About eight inches away I saw hanging a
small spider which was so minute and slender that I thought she feared the
fly’s immensity, or at least felt no hope of catching this rare prey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as I soon learned, it is difficult to
estimate the will of a spider.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had a
body, to begin with, smaller than a grain of rice, and legs so fine, long and
slender as to be imperceptible, or as some antiquated silk needling tools of
yellowy jade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They operated
independently but mutually, manipulating the fine thread, or rhythmically
plucking it to feel its motions, as fingers slowly at a harp.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The whirring, spinning fly did not seem
to break free, though dangling straight from a single line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The resilience of web is extraordinary, and
must match the will of its maker, or in time the will were derived from it;
such is its divinity, an anchor line which only gives way when the whole ship
is at risk.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A curious thing was that the more the
fly spun the higher it climbed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
motion was as if it were on a pulley invisibly operated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On occasion it would rise up slowly, and I
saw that if it did not break free, it would entangle itself further in the
overhead, crisscrossing lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
imagined that the web it were on tangled about its body and thus rose it up,
and in fact one of its wings did fold in half and become immobile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here I could envision its end, and the spider
on fearless legs climbed over to it while it were still in seizure and attached
extra lines as she could, carrying them distant and tying them off.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All at once the fly, though in
comparison immense, froze motionless, perhaps exhausted, and the little
knitting lady went naturally about her work, tying off Gulliver and magically
hoisting him up to near a leathery sack the size of a small pea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it her incubating offspring?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She had seized a large and perhaps rare
prey in a matter of three minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
continued to rope it off and wrap it in a fine cocoon of web.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fly, I imagined, in due time, upon losing
all possibility of escape, darkens its mind and eyes and passes away on its own
– as nature would have it – not waiting for the impaling fangs and the slow
draw of blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why would nature not
supply this effortless and freeing channel to those who would use it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The next morning, returning to work, I
visited the feasting grounds again to see what new events were taking
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found the spider still at the
board some twenty hours later, drawing the last remains of bodily fluid from
the absent fly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The spider’s body had
swelled to five times its previous size, and now matched the shell of her
brood, though her colors became the palest pastel green diluted with
white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was shiny and delicate while
at her gruesome task.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Not wanting to disturb her while at her
breakfast, I went about my work preparations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the next time I looked, some thirty minutes later, the fly’s carcass
had been thrown out of the web, and she was tending to her peapod ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I picked up the fly’s carcass, and found it
crisp and empty seeming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its unknown
life, in these Japan Sea mountains, transforms miraculously to spider food,
perhaps spawning the new brood of spiders; though not its own children, through
its death, life is brought to life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its
dreams may have been unrealized and dissipated with the morning dew, other
dreams were born, and perhaps not unlike its own dreams too; and the event of
its life vaguely reported here.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thank you spider, thank you fly. As
simple as you are, so am I.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></b><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Story Behind the Police Log<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">By Lisa Kline </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Finlandia
University student)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Operator: “911. What's your
emergency?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She never even heard the words as
her hand holding the phone slid down to her side. This wasn't how she had
planned for her birthday to end. This wasn't how she had planned for her <i>life</i>
to end. But at this very second her husband, Matias, was standing three feet
away, pointing his loaded 12-gauge at her that he had pulled out from under the
bed. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Go ahead, Anni! Call me a drunken
loser one more time! Come on! Call me a drunken loser, I dare you,” he shouted.
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anni had just gotten home from her birthday
dinner with the kids. She had taken them up to The Hut in Kearsarge for her
free birthday dinner. Matias didn't come along. He was too drunk for public,
and the only thing Anni wanted from Matias for her birthday was for him to be
sober. He couldn't afford anything anyway, except for the watch that he bought
her after he pawned his mother's acoustic guitar. So she took the kids for her
ribs, full rack, and frozen custard just like she gets every year. Afterward,
she dropped the kids off with their father and went home, anxious about what
she would come home to. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The house was dark. Anni paused by
the glass on the sink and took a whiff. Hitting the hard liquor again. “Damn
it!” She knew then that he had passed out upstairs in bed. “He's getting the
sheets sour again,” she thought. She viciously stomped up the stairs. There he
was, sound asleep, bloated body, snoring his fool head off. It was only
eight-thirty and there he was lights out like the champion drunk he had built
himself up to be over the past four years. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anni wasn't heartbroken this time.
It was her birthday and she had had enough! She slapped on the bedroom lights
hoping to blind him, but he didn't even twitch. This only boiled her blood even
more. She gave him a good shove on the arm; she was in the mood for a fight
now. She shoved him again, harder this time. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Wake up, Matias! It's my <i>birthday</i>
and you're passed out! Wake up, you drunk loser!” She was ready for it now,
hoping that the pitch of her voice would rouse him. Matias gave a mumble,
startled out of his dark dreams, if he even dreamed in that state. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anni walked over to the dresser,
threw her clothes onto the floor, and wiggled into her sweats. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I'm sick and tired of this, Matias!
Every day! You don't work, you do nothing! Oh, wait. That's right you blow the
snow for the neighbors! Let me applaud you!” Anni felt her heart start to pound
in her chest. “God, I can't stand you anymore! You're such a drunken loser, you
know that?” Anni climbed into bed, but she was too wound up now to sleep. She
gave Matias another good shove in the back for good measure. He was awake now
and his temper was about to blow. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You know what, Anni? I'm tired of
your shit!” In one swift motion, Matias rolled out of bed, reached underneath
the box spring, and produced his father's 12-gauge shotgun. Anni didn't know
what exactly went through her mind at that second, but she knew enough to grab
the phone off the nightstand, turn slightly, hit the 'Talk' button and, without
looking, dial 911. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Go ahead, Anni! Call me a drunken
loser one more time! Come on! Call me a drunken loser, I dare you,” Matias
shouted. His eyes were a blurry blue and his blond hair was wild. “I swear to
God I'll shoot you! Call me a drunken loser, Anni!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Just put the gun down, Matias! Put
it DOWN!” She knew that somehow she had to let the operator on the other end
know that there was an emergency, but without Matias's knowing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Say it! Say I'm a drunken loser!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No! Just put the gun down! Please,
oh please, just put the gun down! Please, Matias! Please I'm begging you, don't
shoot me! I'm begging you!” There were only two thoughts that were going
through Anni's head in those brief seconds. “My kids. My kids are going to miss
me so much,” and “My guts, my intestines, will be all over the wall behind me.
It will be a mess.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With the phone still in her hand,
Anni slipped around the edge of the bed and dared to pass Matias. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Where are you going?” Matias asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Away from you!” Anni shouted, as
she ran down the stairs. In a blur she grabbed her purse and scrunched her feet
into her slippers. She remembered she still had the phone in her hand! “Hello?
Are you still there? Did you hear all of that?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes,” a female voice replied.
“Where are you right now?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I'm getting into my car! I'm going
to lose you though!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The warm, mothering voice replied,
“That's all right. We have your location. Do you have a safe place to go?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yes! I'm going straight to my
friend Helmi's house. She lives right on Calumet Avenue, just straight down the
street.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Officers are on their way right-”
and her voice was cut off. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anni drove down the hill and turned
onto Calumet Avenue. Still shaking, she decided to pull over and breathe. As
she parked out front of Dairy Land, the seasonal restaurant that was closed for
the winter, she didn't notice much of anything except that she couldn't control
her trembling legs. It was cold, end of January, and she hadn't brought her
coat with her. Just then a pair of headlights came down the street from the
opposite direction and the police cruiser they belonged to pulled up slowly
next to her car. Anni slowly nodded her head to give them recognition that she
was the caller, the subject on the police log. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Author's note: Inspired by Finlandia faculty member, Lauri Anderson’s book: <em>Back to Misery Bay: "</em>Dostoevsky's Three
Annas<em>" </em>and Other Stories from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~ <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Looking Back</span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By
Bella Erakko<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
look back mystified</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">perhaps
(I say to myself)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
was the one deranged,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">lost
in my own mental kitchen full </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cobwebbed memories </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
determined hope, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">like
unwashed dishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After
all, my mother</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(who
I had never liked very much)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">was
demented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Totally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Imagine
my surprise when</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">she
“passed over” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
didn’t even</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">she
chatted, pointed, explained</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dead
people to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finally
I gave up</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
hired a translator -- </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">psychic,
for short.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With
time and space dispensed with</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(the
wave of a holographic wand)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Elsie
rumbled on of past likes and dislikes:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dancing,
yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boating, no.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So what’s it
like, Mom? on the other side</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
open kitchen cabinets to put plates</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
the table—two—one for me,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">one
for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
open the refrigerator door</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">where
corpses long put in now commune</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">without
need of voices (or a brain</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for
that matter) and find</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
don’t have near enough plates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
meet the interpreted Elsie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
her guests -- a lively crowd </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">no
longer bothered by carrots </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">growing
white tendrils in the vegetable bin </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">or
ice cream decked with hoar frost..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It seems music has more notes, light </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">more
brilliance, love more purity, time </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a
rusting mechanism abandoned </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in
a parking lot overfilled with space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It’s
a delightful party, totally minus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a
brain. It seems </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">souls
don’t need them,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
fragile sturdy bridge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">between
them traversed as</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">easily
as day melts into night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~ </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Blind Date</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">By W.S. Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p><br />
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He was naked and wet</div>
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as a country road in April</div>
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when I came jalopying along,</div>
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dents shined, headlights dim,</div>
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ready for a few ruts before the flat.<br />
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But he wound graciously onward,</div>
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his mist coaxing me along.</div>
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The lake sloshed somewhere off his shoulders—</div>
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the dim dozen eyes of deer,</div>
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trout lily and trillium popping open,</div>
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the cool, damp smell of spring air.<o:p></o:p></div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
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Something told me, Pull over.</div>
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This trip needs to be savored,</div>
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this road needs to be walked.<o:p></o:p></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~ <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Grandfather’s Hammer</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">By Eero Sorila<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My grand</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">f</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ather (1876-1962
) was walking about his farm property some twenty years before Finland became
independent from Russia. In those days many were called by the name of their </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">farm house</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
instead of the proper family name including</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> that of</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> my grandfather.
Luckily for me my own father used the official family name. The property name
Kangasniemi would have been even more of a tongue twister than Sorila.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My grandfather Erkki Kangasniemi was
farming in Finnish Ostrobot</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">h</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">nia (Etel</span><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">äpohjanmaa</span><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-language: JA;">)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
in the village called Tuuri. The village name means luck but he encountered
better luck by opening a blacksmith shop</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> instead of
farming the land of about 400 acres.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The hammer felt better in his hand than
the scythe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As I was a young boy and looked at the
bellows, the hearth, anvil and the homemade tools in the blacksmith shop it was
like </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">opening</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> a treasure chest. At that moment my
appreci</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tion towards my grandfather grew in leaps and bounds
because he had b</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">u</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ilt the blacksmith shop and the tools by himself. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
skills of a blacksmith in the village were sought after and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">many steel products were needed</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. He made steel rims for wagon wheels,
rectangular pancake pans from sheet metal and much more. The most significant
project for the blacksmith was still to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The owner of the local sawmill Mr. Inha was in desperate need of help. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Broken
Axle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The axle holding the circular saw</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">blade
was broken. It had been </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">broken</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> into two pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All work at the mill had come to a stop,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> P</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">roduction was at
zero and the employment prospect looked grim. The whole catastrophe was caused
by the broken axle. It is fair to say that the village life revolved around the
axle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
the axle is in good shape it </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">signified</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> life</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
when it was broken it meant death. The sawmill owner most probably spent many
sleepless nights for not finding anyone who could repair the broken axle. The
situati</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">o</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">n was hopeless. Mr. Inha had heard of Erkki
Kangasniemi</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> but</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> had some doubts if a blacksmith who mainly made
rims for wagon wheels and pancake pans would be able to repair the broken axle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He however grabbed </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">onto</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
anyt</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">hi</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ng as a drowning person</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> would, even unto a reed in the water. ( <i>H</i></span><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-language: JA;">än </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">tarttui kuin hukkuva oljenkorteen </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> The local
tycoon, Mr Inha asked my grandfat</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">h</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">er if he could
repair the axle. There was no time or need for lengthy discussions and
theories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The iron needs to be molded</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> when it is hot, goes a Finnish saying, (<i>Rauta on taottava kun se on
kuuma</i> ).</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>R</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">eality </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">dictated</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
that the broken axle meant bankrup</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">tc</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">y</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for
the sawmill owner and the end of livelihood for the villagers. In those days
there were no such amenities as unemployment insurance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The blacksmith lowered the axle pieces
with his</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">big </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">callused</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> hands gently
unto the flames of the hearth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fire
cle</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">n</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">s</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ed all
impurities from the steel, which had been </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">subjected to
extremely high heat</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.
The fine sand placed around the axle functioned as heat stabilizer. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">S</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
welding </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">was the name of this</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> operation</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
The temperature of the flames controlled by the bellows had to be perfectly
right. A certain color of the melting steel was an indication for the
blacksmith when the hammering had to be done. That moment had arrived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The axle pieces were lifted unto the
anvil and with a homemade hammer the pounding started. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">H</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ammering
sounds were heard in the village. The air was vibrating with suspen</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">s</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">e
as to what would be the outcome. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">My</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> grandfather’s
hammer was in reliable hands</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">H</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">e
was calm as a fermenting y</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">o</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">gurt</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> cask (<i>rauhallinen kuin viilipytty</i>) but relentless with the job at
hand. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
steel was scre</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ming in agony under each blow. Sparks were flying
like fireworks</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> on July 4<sup>th</sup> in America. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">This time
however the sparks fell like diamonds </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">unto the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">pitch
black </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">floor</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> of the blacksmith shop. They were sparks of hope for an expected celebration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The broken axle pieces started to unite
under each hammer blow. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Molecules found their right place in an orderly manner
like scouts in a flag raising ceremony. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The original state of the axle </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">was soon to be</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">achieved</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. That which had been broken was made
new. After the axle received its last treatment in the lathe</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">it
looked </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">like</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> the best product from a Sheffield foundry. Soon the
sawmill was in full operation.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> Mr. Inha was jubilant, the
people of Tuuri returned to work and nobody including the sawmill tycoon </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">would ever
question the skills of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">the</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">local </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">blacksmith</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">. It was time to celebrate. The sweet heat of the sauna near the blacksmith
shop never felt so good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">In 1962 when our family returned home from a summer holiday, an envelope
with black frame had arrived in the mail. The firm grip on the blacksmith’s
hammer needed to repair the broken axle had been released and my grandfather
had died. It was a sad homecoming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
Erkki Kangasniemi-Sorila celebrated his 70<sup>th</sup> birthday as pictured
above he had fond memories of his long career as a blacksmith including the
time when he repaired an axle around which the village’s life rotated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Eero
Sorila has a degree in history and has written many articles of adventure
travel since 1969.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">His
articles have been widely published in Finnish and North American magazines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong><u>Two Poems by Charles Peltosalo<o:p></o:p></u></strong></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Copper Plate<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Copperhead
colors,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Silvery
bronze, fire tannin,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Copper
plates round like suns adorn your cinnamon breast:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Your
thin-worked skin glistens, undulates,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shimmers
like glass beads and diamonds under a metal sky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
watch you bend the light each effortless turn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Witness
the colors dance in your snake-dipped gold escape from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Your
circle outward; it spreads a billion shards,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
sliver spinning from your center like a wheel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shine
forever, copperhead, silent Etowah man transiting the grass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
marsh awakes, slowly stretches like a seasoned runner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mounds
of eager sweetgrass plume upward 100 ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Roused
cattails fluff their wooly manes and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
moon-high water climbs the slow-receding banks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Summer
vapors press their fine beadwork together into undetectable diamonds and
heavy-weight the air.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pine
flowers spire, laughing in the breeze to the pollen-hungry sun:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Amoneeta,
beat your wings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stretch
your claws,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Gouge
in circles, shiny furrows, wavy lines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Etch
this copper plate of day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
paper-thin, fed by sun-squeezed juices flit about the flowers’ constellations,
and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Recreate
the stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Black
and yellow swallowtail, purple thistle hopping,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dragonflies
and monarchs string their tiffany pearls all along the swaying green,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Black
and space-blue escorts close behind, multiple jewelers to create the royal
Faberge day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Their
flight proceeds like Autumn leaves folding,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Muscadine
and gum set swinging with the nectar wringing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Young
swamp-stationed cypress shoots small fingers green as each anole</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prowling
the honeysuckle vines, brighter emerald than the earliest day of May.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fragile
flowers hang their purple bells, tissue-soft pastels posing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
in a breeze, losing their violet peals over the cut-glass pools:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mirror-slides,
seedling ringed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Their
hummocks dotted with gold-banded baby gators,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dipped
into by pig and otter,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sipped
at by bobcat, panther, bear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Untrackable
reflections flash across them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">White-head
eagles show up as small quick darts and dots,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
lose their mirror-kin over land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Two
marsh hawks acrobat with piercing playful cries’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Loose
down markers to gravity’s bowl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They
soar the invisible ways,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
pass a flirt with this stone-slow other two-foot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Their
each bright call: “Live life well and come back to Earth like me!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
star-dipped bluebird hops about the fence tops,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rapidly
flits like an unstuck slice of nearby sky, he parallels my path while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Red-winged
birds like jangled keys sing, and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Leopard
frogs plunge faster than the eye, slower than the ear;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Alerted
turtles slide and dash, disappear, set a perimeter the safest spot out,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
radar eye and nostril.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Gators
large as logs splash, then sink:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rulers
return to the marshes’ caramel gold’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
a hush, everyone awaits my trail gone cold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
brisk Summer breeze from the Southwest blows,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Gator
litters, mother’s muscle filigreed, leap en masse to waterholes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hunting
marsh hawks call and spin as</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
uncountable ants begin to lace the greening forest floor with redug grains
again.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I’m
suddenly surrounded: Here,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Violet
iris, black-eyed susans are luxury spent on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Carpets, brocades, blankets for the day’s
décor;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Summer’s
colors today somehow brighter than each walk before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Baby
bobcat, playful yearling,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Emerges
innocent as a kitten from Northeast compass woods,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sits
on haunches,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yearns
to play.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Run
home to mama,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Run
home forever.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You
and yours, quick hide away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Startled
black snakes, shiny rubber tubes,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Race
and bounce through the grass, or rest,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sit
coiled in the sun like cats on a lawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Black
pig, brown pig, then the smaller brown-and-whites,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By
the root-low shadows amble by unseen,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Slip
off to the tested black-water streams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There
the bristle, tooth, and hair are stroked and groomed and preened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Amoneeta,
sail in low, spread your wings,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Extend
your claws,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Trace
in circles, wavy lines,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Etch
the coppery plate of day.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All
you innocents, playful yearlings,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Run
home to mama,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Run
home forever.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You
and yours, quick, hide away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Long Time, No
See<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mt.
Sentinel, my best friend in Missoula, long time, no see.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
missed you terribly; next time I’ll do a better job.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It’s
been so long that Gypsy, my bandana-ed terrier who climbed you with me so often
last century, had to reincarnate several times and</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">stick around the M-Trail, noble loyal friend
that she was, until I returned.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
truth, Gypsy is a spirit I can’t rewrite like that.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
comforts me from the other side and accompanies me when I’m not there.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
miss her terribly, too, but next time I’ll do a better job.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
friendly hill, you who taught me to pray like a local and drink deep water,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who
taught me why to dance each step, grace-driven, and </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Syncopated
my breath to heart,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You
lifted this body’s song from its’ dark chamber,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chanting
it into the light with your lyric trails.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
takes a truly sorry person to miss you so badly;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Next
time I’ll do a better job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After
40 years of climbs, 23 since my last,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
finally remembered a fast site,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
place I’ve often paused-long time, no see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Life
could be worse than to one day have my ashes spread by a stone person’s
outcrop,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There
where ravens’ wings meet the canyon’s breeze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
I got to your top the other day,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
looked off into the neighboring woods and thought I saw little people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
was normal people farther away than thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe
still, some little people saw me, closer than I thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Well,
my mountain, my teacher, whose mule deer ears hear me 500 yards away when I
pause or rattle,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
schooling on the lakebed below never really stood a chance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With
all your magic and your beauty in my gaze all day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Such
inviting stairs to the bears’ and eagles’ beyond,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
great good luck, exquisite pretty sky, stars and lights and wind;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Off
walking in the clouds I’d go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Good
health and great fortune as fuel, strong steps here is where degrees were
earned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
town never had a chance as I made my way close to that revealing sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Which
doubled its’ approach by its’ matching speed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Long
time, no see, my friend,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
pretty hill, my banked eternity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
love you and I’ve missed you terribly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Next
time, I’ll do a better job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Charles
Peltosalo (the one with the glasses) and friend</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cgpelt
at embarqmail dot com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~ </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Autumn<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A translation/adaptation of Lauri Pohjanpaa’s “Syksy”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Waino W. Korpela</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Taken from the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finn</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Two very old crows <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>on a fence in a field</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>sat silently nodding-</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>emotions concealed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The reeds had turned brown,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the sky had turned gray</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and a steady, cold rain</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>spawned a bleak, autumn
day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>“The crane has flown
south,”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>one said to
the other,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>though it seemed that he
spoke</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>to himself not his
brother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Silently perched,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>long minutes passed by,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“He left yesterday,”</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the other replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And the cold tune yet played<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>as rain danced on water</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>but the friends were
conjoined </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>in the warmth of each
other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A blink of an eye,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>a tug at a feather, </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>accepting their fate </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>in wet autumn weather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A whiff of grain drying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>was brought by the wind.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gathering darkness</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The day at an end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Two old, wet crows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>sitting mute on a fence,</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>each with his thoughts-</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>hither, thither, hence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Then one spread his wings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and cawed a goodbye.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Nice chatting with
you,” </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the other replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3366ff;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">~~~ <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Magnificence of Nature in Finland</span></b><br />
<strong></strong> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Elsie Jaehn</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As our plane touched down at the
Tampere airport in mid-May, the birch trees were just beginning to leaf out,
revealing fresh, green color, a remarkable contrast to the dark green of the evergreens
and cedars interspersed in the picturesque scenery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah, we were back to experience yet another
three-month hiatus in a land much closer to the Arctic Circle than Lantana,
Florida, is to the Equator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When we arrived at the cottage,
nestled safely among 100-ft birches deep in the forest overlooking a placid
lake, we were happy to be in our “summer” home, away from the hustle and bustle
of city life, a place to regenerate and renew our mental, physical and
spiritual selves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As we raked together mountains of
fallen leaves from last fall, the greening of nature was becoming more and more
evident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The land that was practically
barren when we arrived, had, within a week’s time, burst into a fabulous green
celebration of life, invoking feelings of gladness and joy within ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The farmers’ rich, brown fields were
neatly plowed and ready to accept plantings for this year’s crops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scenery, as we drove to our weekly
grocery shopping at Prisma in Kangasala, was an absolute delight to drink in and
revel in its beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In early June, the
fields and meadows were overflowing with colorful wildflowers that provided
many bouquets to grace our dining table for the duration of our stay. The
forest floor was covered in a carpet of lily-of-the-valley whose pleasing
fragrance permeated the air as we took long walks along the gravel road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To accentuate Midsummer Night
(Juhannus), the purple, white and pink Lupines suddenly appeared, almost
overnight, in great abundance along roadways, in fields and in most everyone’s
garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a joy to behold nature’s
ever-changing bounty on a daily basis and add to it the ongoing sound of the
cuckoo bird off in the distance, echoing clearly its repetitious tone
throughout the forest setting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The long summer days periodically
brought the great white swan couple and their youngsters to the shoreline of
the property where we would sit in our swing and watch their activities,
ensconced in the serenity of the forest environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mama Koskelo, with eight or nine babies nestled
safely atop her back, was also a frequent visitor, foraging for food among the
lush marsh grasses at the edge of the lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On and off we had storms that
gathered momentum as the wind blew sharply through the forest sending the tall
birches into a frenzied swaying motion that resulted in sheets of rain falling
all around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About ten minutes later,
when the rain and wind had passed, an indescribable stillness filled the vacuum
left by the exiting squall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a leaf
rustled in any of the trees, and as I allowed myself to be mesmerized by the
scene, I felt as though the forest was quietly enfolding me into its very
self.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was at times like those that I
absolutely knew that we were one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are
not separate from nature; we are an intricate part of it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those precious moments verified that truth for
me over and over during the course of the summer days we spent in nature’s
lush, green habitat deep in the Finnish forest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In July, the forest offered us wild
blueberries galore, ready for picking by those who were so inspired, and
blueberry pies were on the tables of all who had guests for coffee and cake on
those pleasant summer afternoons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the
beginning of August nature brought us wild raspberries to feast on and more
pies to bake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ah, what a glorious bounty
is given to us annually.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are so
blessed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As the short summer season wore on
and the rain continued to visit us frequently, we knew that very soon the
forest would provide us with an abundance of Kanttarelli (Chanterelle)
mushrooms, and so it was to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the
end of July we had feasted on them a number of times, even giving several bag
fulls away to neighbors and friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Once the magenta Horsma (fireweed)
was in full bloom, we knew that fall was not too far away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, the farmers’ fields were covered
in mantles of bright green color, as their crops grew quickly during the long
summer days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Roadsides were ablaze with
purple thistle flowers, yellow yarrow, white daisies, and, of course, fields
and fields of Queen Annes Lace, Finnish style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And then, as August began to
encroach into the season, farmers began harvesting their crops, the Mountain
Ash trees began sporting their bright orange berries, the Heather plants on the
church ridge were dressed in their brilliant lavender hues, and the
Lingonberries were beginning to turn bright red, a sign they were almost ready
for picking and making into jams and jellies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, fall had come to the countryside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By the time we were airborne once
again in mid-August for our return to hot and humid south Florida, the Finnish
summer season had been taken over by the scenery of fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fields and meadows were tired; they had
completed their season’s work in such a short span of time, and we had the
pleasure of experiencing the beauty of the summer season one more time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will have fond memories to last us over
the winter until spring brings us back to this delightful land and the summer
cycle begins anew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Oh, the Century!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">(lyrics to a
song)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Joanne Bergman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
the homesteads! All the farms and the towns and the merchants and teachers and
lawyers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ah,
the lumber, when the sawmills appeared with the loggers and cooks and the
sawyers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ah,
the set-tlers! All the Irish-Italians, the Slavs, and the Swedes and the Finns.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
the Lappalas, Milma and Risto came too, and they lighted a lamp burning still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ah,
the forests! All the red pines and white pines and cedars and popple and
birches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
the building! All the hospitals, depots, and town halls, schools, taverns, and
churches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our
two churches! Mesabi U. U. and Alango were two--now we’re one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Lappalas, Milma and Risto had faith, and they lighted our lamp that burns
still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All
the farmers! All the oats, hay, and barley and carrots and spuds and the
turnips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
the gardens, all the dill and the pickles and rhubarb and lilacs and tulips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
the worship! All the Jews and the Christians and pagans, and agnostics, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
the Lappalas, Milma and Risto were here, and they lighted a lamp burning still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">4</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
the dance halls! Step to polkas and waltzes and schottisches all the night
long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
the music! The ac-cord-ian-ist played using right and left brains, ev’ry song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Heat
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sauna</i>! Our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sisu</i> defies all the cold and the ice and the snow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For
the Lappalas, Milma and Risto were here, and they lighted a lamp burning still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">5</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
the iron! With the open pit mines and the ore boats and union fights, to-o.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All
the mining, all the hard hats and rail cars and steel that helped win World War
Two-o.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thank
the miners, in the open pit mines and the hazardous work un-der-ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But
the Lappalas, Milma and Risto were here, and they lighted a lamp burning still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">6</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
the cent’ry! Oh, the Fords and the highways and ru-ral e-lec-tri-fi-cation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What
a century! Yes the decades and years and the changes in civ-il-i-zation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Unitarians!
With our Old World beginnings and New World opinions we</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sing . . .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.
. . For the Lappalas, Milma and Risto were here, and they lighted a lamp
burning still.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author’s Note:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 1912 the reverends Risto and Milma Lappala established
the <i>Vapaa Kristillinen Kirkko</i> (Free Christian Church) in
Virginia, Minnesota and the Liberal Christian Church in Alango, 20 miles
north of Virginia. Risto died suddenly in 1923, and Milma, now a widow with
four children, continued to lead both congregations until her death in
1950.<br />
<span class="apple-tab-span"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span>In
1991 an arson fire destroyed the Alango church, and the two congregations
merged in 2001, strengthening what is now known as the Mesabi Unitarian
Universalist Church, now 102 years old, in Virginia. </span></div>
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The churches continue to function as one, most frequently with lay-led services. the combined congregation continues to meet in the original 1913 building designed by architect John Okerstrom, where they frequently sing from the hymnal <em>De Colores.</em> I wrote the centennial words to <em>De Colores</em> for the Centennial Celebration of July 8, 2012.<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Erasing</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Lauri
Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
soon as he’s dead, contact your chosen funeral home and insist that they
incinerate the body as soon as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do not put an announcement in the paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ask them not to put one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
necessary, pay them a small bribe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
his body is reduced to ash, do not buy an urn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do not put the ashes into a cardboard box or shopping bag because they
will be very hot—put them into a pail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pails are very inexpensive at the dollar store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may want to cool the ashes with water
before you take them to the town dump and throw them away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Preferably, choose a part of the landfill
that is about to be bulldozed so that the ashes will disappear into oblivion
and the man will be erased. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Begin next with his dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go to the master bedroom (where he slept with
wife #1, wife #2, wife #3, and …) and enter the only closet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To the right is a box on the shelf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In it you’ll find a handgun and
ammunition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t be surprised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, this is America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Load the gun, take it downstairs, and enter
the kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pantry will be on your
immediate left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the lower left shelf
just inside the doorway is a bag of duck jerky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dog loves this stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take a
piece with you and enter the living room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dog will be on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his</i> chair,
the one he always sat in after his hip and knees went to hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Face the dog and enunciate distinctly the
word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">out.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dog will instantly perk up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His tail will wag wildly and he’ll leap from
the chair and run immediately to the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the wall near the door the dog’s leash hangs from a hook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Attach the leash to the ring hanging from the
dog’s neck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take the dog outside and
into the backyard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bend and with your
left hand, offer the dog the piece of jerky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The dog will come forward to take it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>With the pistol in your right hand, shoot the dog in the head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you do it right, he’ll instantly be
dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throw the still-leashed body onto
the grass by the garbage container behind the front steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Return to the kitchen and wash your hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under the sink is a package of official city disposal
bags.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take one, return to the dog
carcass, and throw it into the bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Carry the bag to the roadside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Early Friday morning the city waste truck will come by and take away the
dog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll never see it again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dog will be erased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That part of the man will be erased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If there is blood on the grass where you shot
the dog or threw the carcass, rain will soon erase it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world and you will be safe from that
memory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t forget to rewash your
hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The man died with mementoes from the
unusual places where he once lived and worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because he never returned to those places and lost all contact with
former students and friends from these places, you can safely assume that no
one in these odd corners yet remembers that he ever existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroy these items—a Palauan grass skirt,
Hausa hats, an Inuit painting, Trukese leis, Igbo masks, Yoruba fans, a Tibetan
mask from a Nepalese refugee camp, a Hausa grammar book and dictionary, a
Turkish <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cezve</i>, a Hittite shirt, a
six-foot-long map of Togo, a large map of Truk Lagoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mementoes of this kind should not exist in
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Burn them
(or sell them on eBay, which amounts to the same thing).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mementoes from Paris and other European
places are less distinctive and less of a threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just throw them in with the rest of his
possessions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same should be done to
Mexican items.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This guy taught weird stuff
sometimes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Commonwealth Literature he
taught authors who write in English but who are from Africa, the Caribbean, the
Pacific islands, India, Pakistan, Guyana, New Zealand, Tristan da Cunha, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He also taught Finnish-American literature and Island Cultures of
Micronesia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s that all about?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why should money be wasted on such
esoterica?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students need to study engineering,
science, math, management, economics, and health sciences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wave of the future is in Sports
Management.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything else is just a
waste of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately all of his
classes have died with him and we can get back to the practical, to useful
stuff that keeps people broadly ignorant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s nothing more irritating than an educated population.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just look at what happened back in the ‘60s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those liberally educated masses ended a war
and segregation and got civil rights for minorities, women, and workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They reformed schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They messed up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we have to roll back and erase their
mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Erasing this guy is just one small
step for mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He’s
a weasel too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows next to nothing
about music but has written about meeting Ravi Shankar one afternoon in Paris,
about meeting a West Virginia woman who was there as a child observer when her
father sold some moonshine to Hank Williams in the wee morning hours of January
first in 1953.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of hours later,
Hank was dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s seen Hal Lone Pine,
Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan live in concert. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If we erase the man’s words, we erase the events. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Clean out his office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has approximately 2500 books in there,
including the major works of all of the world’s major writers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has an equal number of books at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Books</i>
define him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s what he is—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">books.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He’s also grammar and punctuation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Students have called him a grammar Nazi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, he is guilty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do not need
a Nuremberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroy all of his grammar
and mechanics books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give the other
books to the college library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will
sell a few by the front door—ten cents each.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The rest they will throw away, though
they might keep <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Graves of Academe, </i>an
original edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Howl, Provence and
Pound.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who knows what they might
choose to keep?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The saved will be shelved in the stacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After all, today’s library is a computer
center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today’s young people spend their
time reading from computer screens and phones and iPads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t even know what stacks are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They never wander the stacks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will be erased.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Throw
out all printed matter found on or in the three desks, the filing cabinets, the
chairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of it is in cardboard boxes
unopened since the ‘70s or ‘80s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here
and there are drafts of manuscripts, including several completed unpublished
novels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>REMEMBER—the most dangerous
aspect of this man is his writing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be
sure any and all manuscripts are destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Be sure to include photos of his mentors—Hemingway, Cather, O’Connor,
Joyce, Dostoyevsky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">These cover the walls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finally, rip down all of the stuff on
the hallway walls near his office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
man created an elaborate collage of himself, selfishly spreading his
self-promotion to the walls of colleagues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This collage is made up of dozens of cartoons, of satirical comments on
academic conferences concerning baseball or Ali.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroy all of this collage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From all of the print in and outside of
his office, be sure to save only all references to strategic plans, assessment,
and board meeting minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’d hate
that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now turn to the man’s home—the place
he’s lived since 1978, the place he bought for $22,500.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Burn it and all that is inside after you have
removed pictures that his children might want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Otherwise, people might remember that he existed while they are driving
by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Include the garage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After these steps we will be safely rid
of the man and his damned books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes,
copies will still be scattered about the country and in Europe (especially in
Finland), but publishing has changed and his publisher has changed too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His publisher now only keeps a book in print
if the author is constantly setting up places to sell the few printed
copies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within a couple of years, his
publisher will have killed off all of his books and he’ll be forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About four thousand bookstores have closed,
so most outlets for books have disappeared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So has he.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, he had nine NEH
grants and spent summers with academics doing research on esoteric topics such
as Twelfth-Century Provencal Literature (Mount Holyoke), Contemporary Islamic
Literary Topics (Colorado College), Commonwealth Literature (Indiana
University), The Contemporary Mexican Novel (UGuadalajara), The Russian Novel
(Cornell), American Humor (UNew Mexico), Appalachian Writers (Ferrum), and so
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Academics are notorious for meeting all sorts
of people that they’ll promptly forget ever existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So he will very quickly be erased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A thousand years from now no one will know
that he ever existed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of his words,
words, words will not just be forgotten—they will be erased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But since we are doing nothing about climate
change or population control, our descendants will be erased by then too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If in the next thousand years
Dostoyevsky’s writings are erased, we’re all in trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be the blankness of the remainder of
this sheet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yes, it’s been a very long winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James Welch had it right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here in this part of the world we all have
winter in the blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our boards are white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We erase them to blankness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lauri Anderson is a long-tenured English
Professor at Finlandia University and has published multiple books, the most
recent being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">From Moosehead to Misery Bay
or The Moose in the VW Bus, </i>North Star Press ISBN 978-0-89839-6644<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lauri
dot anderson at Finlandia dot edu</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Rabbit
Hole</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By
Lisbeth Holt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How
do I get out of this place?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How
did I even ever get here?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who
made that final push; was it me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
why now, why here, I repent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For
whatever it is that I may have done<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
obviously must have done<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Or
I would not be here;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Here,
in this strange convoluted place!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
don’t like this growing inwardness of my bones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Or
this fragile softening of my skin;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
fragmented bursts of my words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">No!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not a stage I had envisioned:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
had dreamed of a far-arching ascent into the ethers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Or
secret exit into a hidden wilderness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Not
this!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A macabre carnival house of sorts;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To
show up and not be me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How
appalling a scene<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Here
in the rabbit hole where I am under scrutiny.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The documentary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913</i>, will be shown on
February 20 at the <u>Chapel of St. Matthew</u> on the campus of Finlandia
University, Hancock, Michigan, at 4:15 p.m. Film consultant Steve Lehto will be
at the presentation and available for questions and answers. For further
information on the presentation, contact Terri Martin at terri dot martin at
Finlandia dot edu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This hour-long film, which recently
aired on PBS, was produced by Jonathan Silvers and Robert Y. Lee of Saybrook
Productions and tells the story of the strike which shut down the copper
industry in the Keweenaw in 1913. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Steve Lehto appears in the film and served
as consultant for the project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of
Mr. Lehto’s books will be available for purchase and signing. The DVD will also
be available to buy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
Finnish Club of Manitoba is gathering stories for a history of people
with a Finnish heritage from the earliest immigrants, late 1800's,
right up to the present. The Finnish settlements in Manitoba will be
featured as well as stories from individuals. Very little has been
recorded about the Finns in our province. If you have any information please
contact Hazel Lauttamus Birt, hgbirt at shaw dot ca or phone <u>204-888-6743</u>.</span></div>
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University will again host a Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) program, which
will immerse participants in the Finnish-American culture and history of the
Copper Country. The program will feature lecture presentations, a field trip,
workshops, Finnish cuisine, folk dancing, and most notably the finale concert
of the Sibelius Academy Music Festival.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In addition, the Road Scholars will visit a copper mine, a mineral
museum, and enjoy the spectacular scenery of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness
State Park. </span></div>
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Kivisto was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at the
University of Turku this past May. Peter Kivisto and University of Helsinki sociologist Osten Wahlbeck edited Debating Multiculturalism in the Nordic Welfare States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)</span><br />
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out from Fox Spirit Books this April around Easter. It's a slightly
supernatural crime novel about a disgraced detective, a murdered socialite and
a mysterious drug cult. Bestselling author James Oswald says, "<em>The
mystery was deftly played with just the right balance of action and character
interplay to keep me turning the pages."</em><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.foxspirit.co.uk/future-releases/white-rabbit/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.foxspirit.co.uk/future-releases/white-rabbit/</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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de plume</i>: the noir tale of obsession <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Extricate</i> </b>as Graham Wynd, also from
Fox Spirit Books, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Big Splash</i></b>, a sprightly Jazz Age
romp as Kit Marlowe from Tirgearr Publishing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Helena Halme<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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invited to the British Embassy cocktail party in Helsinki to celebrate a Royal
Navy visit to Finland, she’s not looking for romance. After all, her future has
been carefully planned: she’s to complete her degree, marry her well-to-do
Finnish fiancé and live happily ever after. Enter the dashing Peter, a newly
qualified naval officer. Like a moth to a flame, Kaisa falls head over heels in
love...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Can the love between Kaisa and the Englishman
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Englishman</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>is based on true
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Available at </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Amazon.com for $9.95. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Below
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sTKfNJzNufI/UufMEHVkWYI/AAAAAAAAAVM/edhr-Rc4fCM/s1600/Image+8+Halme+B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sTKfNJzNufI/UufMEHVkWYI/AAAAAAAAAVM/edhr-Rc4fCM/s1600/Image+8+Halme+B.jpg" height="243" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Helena Halme grew up in Tampere,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></b>central
Finland then moved to Sweden in her early teens. Halme studied Political
Science in Helsinki, and moved to Britain in 1985. There she spent the first
ten years as a naval wife and worked as a journalist for the BBC. In 2004
Helena received a master’s degree in Creative Writing and has since written
three novels:<i> The Englishman, Coffee and Vodka</i> and <i>The Red
King of Helsinki,</i> all of which are set in Finland and published on Kindle.
Helena now lives in London where she runs Finn-Guild, which is a Finnish Expat
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By John (Juha) Raikkonen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Life
is an Amazing Song</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> is a memoir about growing up in Finland
during the Finnish-Russian war from 1939 to 1945 and beyond. Described by a
reader as “a humorous and serious tale…this book left me wanting for more.”
This poignant story describes the experiences of a young boy living at his
grandparents’ farm in Oulu, North Finland during the war. A thrilling memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life is an Amazing Song</i> is steeped in
the tradition of <i>Angela’s Ashes,</i> <i>My Life as a Dog</i> (Swedish book)
with a hint of <i>Tom Sawyer.</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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will be autographed by the author. </span><a href="http://www.lifesamazingsong.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">www.LifesAmazingSong.com</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN: 1453735100 300 pages. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rated five stars in the National Press. Edited by: Mike Valentino
Reviewed by: Jean Purcell, Siggy Buckley, Laila Sullivan, and others.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em>Finnish Log Construction--The Art</em></h3>
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<em><strong>By F.W. Eld</strong></em></div>
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Finns introduced the log cabin to America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finnish Log Construction-The Art</i>
tells their story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This
book details in a scholarly, yet understandable manner, the unique log
construction developed in Finland and brought to America. Their method of
squared and tightly fitted logs with locked corners was used in New Sweden
Colony and later by Finnish immigrants in the northern United States and
Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They perfected log construction
to an art. The author has documented hundreds of remaining examples, some
preserved, others falling prey to time. These Finns have never been recognized
for their art-until now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Contact:
ImFinn at iclouc dot com $26.95 plus $6 S&H</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Box
657, Donnelly, Idaho, 83615</span></div>
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<em>Editor's Note: Hanka Homestead, located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Pelkie, south of Houghton/ Hancock) </em><em>has a restored house and several outbuildings featuring this log construction. Consider a visit! </em></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rhyming
Rider rides </span></div>
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Cruiser, races </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dawn:
pink and purple </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">flames
from Her chariot’s wheels </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">stretch
across the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
heavens turn to peach </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
orange as Helios ascends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
eastern horizon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
morning ride stretches past noon—<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in
a grove of drowsy apple trees,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">beside
a row of blossoming hawthorns,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">bike
and rider stop for rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Robins
pluck worms from the damp, late </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Spring
ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forged by Hephaestus, carefully</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">welded
together into a sturdy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">diamond-shaped
frame by His skillful </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">hands,
the shiny metal, rounded </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">rails
of the quick chariot’s chassis </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">send
white shafts of reflected sun<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">into
the roof of leaves that brush </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">together
and swish out a swirling </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">harmony
above the dozing page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pillars of golden light step lively<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
the wandering rhythms of brief breezes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">which
branches with pink and white flowers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
red fruits follow as they pass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Shadows
dip and sway beside </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">their
bright, late-day dance partners, who, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">one-by-one,
slip out of sight, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
retire to silk-lined bedchambers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">somewhere
beyond the grip of Night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Slapped
by a sudden gust of wind, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
custom machine falls to the ground; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">stainless
steel spokes <br />
twirl—the freewheel clicks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
blue sky retreats to the west.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Spewing
black and gray mist, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">massed
in dagger-shaped phalanxes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">groaning
thunderclouds advance from the east.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Poseurs’ Ed.</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reward
incompetent bootlickers, heinous chiefs <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of
an assumed world school procured below Zhang’s port: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they
pose no threat to your corruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Profits flow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
your pretenses, farcical yet they endure <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">despite
your students’ failures, bared in true reports<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">concealed
by you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The model city you deceive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">hears
only lies you spew, reads only advertised<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">success,
and the affluent pay extortionate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tuition
fees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wealthy parents spend much
more </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when
two thirds of their cozened kids fail, never go</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
colleges abroad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of those that do about</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">four
fifths flunk out, return before they finish one</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">semester;
done, they drive their Benz to walking streets </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
bulldozed swamps beside the Changjiang, where you skulk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Michaelyricking.blogspot.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dactylicus at
gmail dot com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="center">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">= </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(a poem title)</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">By
Lauri Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Universe
= poetry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poetry = universe</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">God
= poem w/o beginning,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>end<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(or middle)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Devil
= an ellipsis</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Good
intentions = cotton candy</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wrapped around the barrels
of assault rifles</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
Finn is stolid existence—sisuesque rhythm, sleety rhyme</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
creation of mankind = Earthquake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>An unnatural disaster<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
acceleration of every [<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>] is a –
through expanding poetry</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>authored by Einstein
et al<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or maybe some other
Jew</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>on a plastic cross<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
doesn’t matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re all the chosen
Poem’s chosen life forms,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>even Finns<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(and Tongans)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(and whales)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
Melville?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He too is extra-cetological.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Destitute in
Paris</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">By Eero Sorila<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After spending a few weeks in Paris I
was broke.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An alarming message was sent to a friend in Finland:
“Please send me some large bills <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">by</i>
registered mail.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A handful of coins,
for the moment, kept starvation at bay. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A small bakery was a good source of
cheap pastries—a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>substitute for <i>pulla</i>-Finnish
coffee bread. Luckily, free tap water washed down my pastries. It was important
to stretch my coin reserve as far as possible.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After
meeting a couple in the Parisian Finnish community, I was invited to stay with
them until the arrival of the money. Over a week passed without results. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Finnish bashfulness took over and I was </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">embarrassed to stay with the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">considerate</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
couple any longer. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">I</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> embraced the world of the destitute.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I had no idea
where I would spend the night. Many Finnish artists, writers and musicians,
like Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Helen Shederbeck and Jean Sibelius had lived in
Paris but they all had comfortable accommodations.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the evening was getting chilly I managed to
buy a Metro ticket.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> I rode the rails until the Metro closed at 1:00 am.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
famous <i>Arc de triomphe</i> greeted me as I finally made my exit above
ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still had no idea where to spend the night.
A cast iron bench</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;">, decorated in Art Nouveau motifs, became my ice box
bed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
was still dark at<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>5:00 a.m. when I
walked to a nearby <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">McDonalds.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again I was counting pennies in the palm
of my hand. Fortunately there were enough coins for a cup of hot chocolate. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A large muscular black man, resembling the
past boxing champion <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Mike Tyson<i>, </i></span>took
my order. He looked at my haggard face, stubbly and pale after a cold night,
and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>handed over the hot chocolate and
said: “It is on the house.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being fully
surprised but thankful, I went out to the street singing an old Finnish song
about a lucky night traveler- <i>T</i></span><i><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">änä yönä
onni suosii kulkijaa.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After
my “lucky” night those coveted large bills arrived from Finland, and I was no
longer destitute in Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Eiffel Tower
was somewhere behind my back as I shivered the night away on a cast iron bench.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two Poems</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Russell Jokela</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mt. Emei, China</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(on an excursion with my father)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">i.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
I am here.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
sun rising again</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">over
the endless sea of Sichuan</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">her
soft lovely hand pressed against</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
back of the bus seat</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">seen
from atop </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the lush mounts and forests of Emei</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
other arm holding a child</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
the moon in half </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">already
in the midst of blue</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
I am here.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">traveling
together over stone bridges</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">over
mountain streams</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
Chinese smile hand in hand</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
chatter unrestrained</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">past
bamboo groves, brush</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">wild
hardwood and softwood forests</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">thickets
and plantations of corn</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we
make acquaintance as readily</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
steep hillsides in the early dark</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ii.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Emei
air is clear and palatable</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
waters too, from mountainsides return</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in
broken rivers, of broken valleys we pass</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">lie
scattered boulders like cracked skulls</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">crowned
with high-water bamboo and grass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
I am here.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">she
rests her hand on mine</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
speak<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from
her pearl head, black nylon hair</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ripe
raspberry lips</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">through
foothill forests on foot</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we
press hard over ascending stones</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
this elephant lotus temple, high in the hills</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of
bells, and chants, and smells, and monks</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">our
sweat, and the air</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as
dense as Asian summer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
I am here.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
highest art is nature’s part</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
bend and mold and turn around</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">forever
in this fashion</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">she
strolled up to the ancient pond</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">bathed
and combed in riveting dress</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">frogs
cried out eternal attraction</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
fish displayed their naked art</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">revealing
to all her mortal reflection</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">though
flesh and bones of Chinese oil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
I am here.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
smell and taste and hear again</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
foliage, the firmament, her ready smile</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">bathing
in the sun’s last rays</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">draped
in moments long since passed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we
reveled in what couldn’t last.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On the
Disappearance of Divinity<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from
the face of earth</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in
forgotten ages already,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">departed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">aloft
in out-stretched wings</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of
a phoenix to the stars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from
a hermit’s fire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">rose
up a Chinese mountain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">or
plummeted to an Indian seabed</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
disappeared into silt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">bequeathed
us to ruin</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
our hollow selves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I’ll
hear a remnant in the wind</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">at
times, a flutter</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">perhaps
see an ethereal wisp,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a
psychedelic beam dissipating<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
all I desire</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">into
eternity trace</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that
atmospheric bird<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center">
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
<div align="center">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~~ <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two Poems</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Lisbeth Holt</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b> </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">IMAGES!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
images before us intrude deeply into our cells.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Like
mirrored replicas <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What
our eyes see, our minds think, our emotions feel:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">instantaneously
absorbed within.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It’s
not just a passing fancy, you see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
violent cinema, the inane trivia, the obscene greed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All
transferred into our vulnerable being!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Insidiously
we become more like what we see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Therefore,
today…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Be
vigilant with what enters your receptive being!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Protect
your purity, your wild and creative heart!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Today…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Exchange
eternal ideas face-to-face; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Converse
about what inspires and ennobles!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Today…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Explore
the sheer beauty of seascape, mountain, desert; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Share
a picnic by the sea; host an exuberant garden party!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stroll
amidst elegant cities with soaring architecture…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reflect
quietly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Today…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You
hear the music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dance!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Transform
your world into your essential truth</span><span style="font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 12pt;">!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A GOLDEN GODDESS
I WILL NEVER BE!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
golden goddess I will never be</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That
of your fantasies</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yet
you must know it’s me I like to be!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That
image you have in your mind</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cannot
upset my equilibrium:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each woman is a goddess born</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
but needs to embrace her destiny.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Why
would I not then appreciate</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This
faithful body which houses my spirit,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">These
brown tresses turning to silver,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Blue-gray
eyes like glistening stones on Baltic shores?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Why
would I not celebrate</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What
the Fates have dealt me: </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This
passionate heart, this resilient mind,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">These
candid emotions, swift, deep, strong?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
woman has an alluring myth all her own</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
a multi-dimensional reality.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Illusions
are just insubstantial fleeting things…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
you see a golden goddess, admire as you will:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
know it’s me you love and I who love you still.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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Lisbeth Holt t<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ravelbylis
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<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Three Poems</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Diane Dettmann<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center">
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">TIMBER MONUMENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Miniature
blades<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Of
grass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cradle
white clover blossoms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
the great pine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
monument<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Of
muted greens,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stretches
deep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Into
the evening sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Images
of clouds pierced<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By
ancient trees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Replaced
by skyscraper spires <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Of
wealth and power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Memorials
of bough and bark<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lost
forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Light
fades into darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">REMEMBERING<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DsLPLtBjW4U/UufMBYG0vnI/AAAAAAAAAUg/wUcNierwcw8/s1600/Image+13+Dettmann.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DsLPLtBjW4U/UufMBYG0vnI/AAAAAAAAAUg/wUcNierwcw8/s1600/Image+13+Dettmann.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
earth’s soul</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Touched
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
heart</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
day </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
met you.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our
hearts and breath</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Entwined
in the valley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Filling
us with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Layers
of love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
the evening fog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">THE PERFECT FOOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chocolate
cake the perfect food</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With
vanilla ice cream the texture’s fine,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
cocoa so healthy</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Better
than wine!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Eat
the chocolate layers for breakfast</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Church
socials or teas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Piled
high with whipped cream</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
chopped walnuts,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chocolate
cake sure beats</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cooked
peas!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Diane Dettmann is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Twenty-Eight Snow Angels A Widow’s Story of
Love, Loss, and Renewal</i> which was recently named runner-up in the “Beach
Book Festival Awards”<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>Diane’s shared
her writing at local author events, festivals and international conferences in
Finland and Canada. Diane’s website: </span><a href="http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two Poems</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Charles Peltosalo</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sailing the
Geologic Sea <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Give
me a high plains sage, rolling a dusty green</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Up
and over a mountain range, sailing the geologic sea.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let
me ride the sandstone waves and</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Toss
and glide in the rubbly red scree;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Send
me off where canyons wind</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Through
granite boulders’ company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Like
high desert fox in the breaks and draws</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dance
in and vanish without a trace,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Give
me the golden’s wings to disappear on</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Summer
winds above the prairie’s face.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Grant
me the hooves and the paws of the desert elite,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Antelope
and coyote’s muscly feet,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
hawk’s sharp claws on the juniper’s branch,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
lizard’s prickled cactus retreat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Send
me away under warm Summer moons,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let
my spirit ride broad rolling silver-lit dunes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jagged
heights of far ranges to a soul hold no mystery</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That
my far-roving mind cast adrift surely won’t see.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let
the wide open plains forever beckon me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Far
from the shores of the crowding society,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With
badger and eagle and mule deer please reckon me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Gone
sailing the geologic sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b> </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visitors<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Honeysuckle
potions</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Suntan
oiled pearly voodoo</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Carolina
Sea and Ski</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Myrtle
Beach Boardwalk strolling in a sweat-crystalled shimmer,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Conjured,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Unite
in breezes blown from a hidden ocean,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visits
me homesick on the mountain,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Soothes
the stray in me.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Black-water
swamp scenes come to me sing-song with Summer smells,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Plant
bright flowers at my feet,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whisper
childhood rhymes forgotten by</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dirt
road ponds Saturday found</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bamboo
pole bream-ready.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
remember lazy mornings:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Misty
Southern days by yellow-pollened pines.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cardinals
sing in carnations there,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Blue
jays rail at squirrels.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Green
is green there, not a pale shade tired by</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Snow-suffered
Winters,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But
a celebration of life unfurled,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jungle-rich,
Wysterian,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Magnificent
in lusty twining growth,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Exultant
in strong sun,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bird-infested,
flower-strewn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now
I lace my feet in leather boots,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Scale
jagged granite oyster,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wander
chiasmic canyons and bareback mountains set like</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Seashells
on a planetary shore,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Traverse
the snow-bound ridges of</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wind-ice
crystals powdered into frozen dunes unshifting</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
dream of June’s first week:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cutoff
jeans by the Atlantic,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Flip-flops
on the burning sand,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Convertible
Camaros geared to rayon,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Blonde
bikini drag race.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Searching
for a magic lady to share the Southern Summer’s spell,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finding
mountain girls from West Virginia lonely with desire.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Everyone
has been too cold too long</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So
they gather round driftwood bonfires burning on the beach at night.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
remember dizzy evenings spent slow-dancing to the Drifters underneath pavilion
moons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">While
all the palmettos warmly whispered:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Hold
her closely, kiss her long.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She’ll
be gone in some short tomorrow,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She’ll
be a memory way too soon.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">0430
quiet town, laying prone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sprawled,
tired, asphalt-spent,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dropped
to the Earth’s floor like a fallen coat of</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sequined
lights tossed in a corner at the end of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
boulevard of heatless fire from the river bridge to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Broadway
glows luciferinous,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Bug-sized,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Softly
beams like a fallen flight of mercury vapor fireflies.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They
cast bronzed-grey shadows on the up-rim hills,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Spread
silhouettes born of neon to the wild.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Predawn town without ignitions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sleeping
autos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Western
man off astral</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
lightly tripping morning star</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Earth
relaxed deep in its’ planetary dreams</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
silent planet’s hour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An
attic passage opens as you leave the valley</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reveals
old ceremony sites on the mountain</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pause
and pray a moment there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dig
deep as you can go underneath old Europe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rhyme
with songs the rocks are making,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Blend
with the subtle attentions of lichen streaming off to space,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But,
look up early,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Look
up to the mystery-strewn sky:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jupiter
courted by Saturn wheels around the gibbous moon</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That shines on Mars from its’ black cape like</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An
iridescent weasel eye peeled attentive, prey-wary.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Be
nothing, yet everything special;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Be
a milkman before the dawning,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
paperboy who roams,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Be
a restless hiker from the valley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Anonymous
in star-patched morning,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Anonymous,
but not alone.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~~~</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Do <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>not</u> </i>use these lame examples:)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So, do you come here often?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What’s a nice tortoise like you dong in a place like this?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My sign’s Taurus—I bet yours is TORTOISE?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Waiting for
Climate Change</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Not
really a poem, more of a rant)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Terri Martin<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Like
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rendering
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">White
road, black ice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Invisible
stop sign</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mailbox
gone; damn plow</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Poor
gas mileage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dead
battery</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hungry
deer wait for corn</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dog
won’t pee; too cold</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Eat
too much</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Drink
too much</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cuss
too much</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sleep
too much</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Talk
about the weather too much</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Waiting
for climate change</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Urge
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issue whose cover is adorned with the artwork of noted American artist C. Ryan
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(in Finnish and
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By Steve Lehto<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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T<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">he documentary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913</i>, will air nationwide
on PBS, December 17, at 8:00 p.m. The hour-long film was produced by Jonathan
Silvers and Robert Y. Lee of Saybrook Productions and tells the story of the
strike which shut down the copper industry in the Keweenaw in 1913. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The most famous event during the strike
was the Italian Hall Disaster where 73 people died when a false cry of “Fire!”
caused a stampede at a Christmas Eve party for the children of the striking
miners. The victims included 59 children; half were Finns. This year will mark
the centennial of the tragedy. This is a straightforward historical
documentary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The filmmakers interviewed a host of
experts and historians from the Copper Country and elsewhere and utilized a
variety of archival material as well. Steve Lehto appears in the film and served
as consultant for the project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Story Award Goes to G.K. Wuori<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Million Writers Award series. It is his fourth story to receive that
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"> Ice Cold Crime</span></b></div>
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Cold Crime LLC is a publishing house founded in 2009 in the Minneapolis-St.
Paul, Minnesota area. Its mission is to originate, translate, publish, and promote
Finnish fiction in the United States and other English speaking countries. Its
website is: </span><a href="http://icecoldcrime.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">http://icecoldcrime.com/</span></span></a></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Helsinki Homicide:
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Helsinki Homicide: Against the
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<em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Helsinki Homicide:
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<em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wolves and Angels–A
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<em><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pet Shop Girls</span></span></em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> by Anja
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Decay Time--A Wall Street Murder and Morality Tale</span></em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> by Scott Stevenson <o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Finlandia
English professor, Lauri Anderson, </em></span><br />
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2013<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visitors
and participants of FinnFest USA 2013 showed their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sisu</i> and dismissed the less than perfect weather as a minor
inconvenience. Nearly 8,000 national and international visitors converged upon
the Copper Country to take it all in: performances, lectures, demonstrations,
tours, art exhibits, two <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tori </i>markets,
and much more. Credit to its success goes to Finlandia University, Michigan
Technological University, the cities of Hancock and Houghton, volunteers,
donors, and the incredible hospitality of the Copper Country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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year’s Sibelius Academy Music Festival took place September 22-27 in Chicago,
Negaunee, Hancock, and Calumet, and featured classical accordionist Ari
Lehtonen and the jazz/folk group “August Saarinen & Vuolas Virta.”</span></div>
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concerts, a folk dance, with live music provided by the musicians, took place
on the newly installed wooden floor at Finlandia University’s Finnish American
Heritage Center. </span></div>
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musicians to be selected in the spring of 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Experience in
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Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) participants visited the Copper Country to
immerse themselves in the Finnish-American heritage of the area, and to attend
concerts and a dance featuring the Sibelius Academy Musicians. The program,
sponsored by Finlandia University, included lectures, museum tours, folk dance
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kantele</i> workshops, Finnish
cooking demo, field trips to Hanka Homestead and Copper Harbor and concluded
with the grand finale concert at the historic Calumet Theatre. </span></div>
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Brooks (from the FinNALA Advisory Board) </em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><em>and Sirpa Kaukinen (FinNALA Newsletter Assistant Editor)</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><em> at
this summer’s Finn Fun Festival in Sudbury, Ontario<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>By S T Kaukinen</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hundred years ago, Matti Kurikka, a Finnish journalist, newspaper editor and a
theosophist, founded the utopian socialist colony of Sointula (Place of
Harmony) on Malcolm Island in British Columbia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>An agreement was drawn up between the province and Matti Kurikka and the
Kalevan Kansa Finns (Kaleva Folk Finns).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was hoped that three hundred and fifty Finnish men and their families
could be found to establish and work in this colony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kurikka founded the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Aika</i> (Time) newspaper to make the community and his ideas known to
Finns in North America and Finland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
the end of 1903 a saw and a planing mill were in operation and construction of
homes and a school was begun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,
Kurikka’s poorly planned financial tenders for work, and his ideas of free love
caused disruption in the community and by 1904 Kurikka left Sointula with his
staunchest followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 1905 the
utopian community had ended but many of the residents remained.1 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To mark this year the Masala Youth
Theatre Group, from Kirkkonummi in Finland, produced and performed in Finland a
play called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sointula</i> for a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This September the group arrived in Sointula
to put on the last performance of the play for the descendants of the original
Sointula residents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writer and one
of the directors of the play, Tuomo Aitta, the other director, Hannele
Tuominen, and the producer Mika Kaartinen travelled with the group of
actors.2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It was reported by journalist Annika
Martikainen in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kanadan Sanomat</i>
that the eight hundred residents of the Sointula community welcomed the group
with open arms and everyone was given accommodation in local homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also reported by those present that
the young group put on an energetic and highly skilled performance.3 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The play was part of a seminar, Culture
Shock, September 21 – 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2013, where adjunct professor of
anthropology Dr. Edward Dutton, from the Oulu University in Finland, was the
keynote speaker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other utopian
communities in North and South America were examined also as a part of the
seminar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Canadian anthropologist Kalervo
Oberg (1901-1973), a former resident of Sointula, developed the culture shock
theory involving distinct stages. Ms. Tellervo Lahti, a representative of the
Migration Museum at Peräseinäjoki in Finland, also attended and spoke about the
museum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Books - Finnish<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">1 - Raivio, Yrjö:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kanadan Suomalaisten Historia</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">New West Press Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C.
1975. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Finnish</span></div>
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3 & 4<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> - Kanadan Sanomat</i>, with
permission from reporter Annika Martikainen, Oct 1, 2013 issue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Finnish-Russian war from 1939 to 1945 and beyond. Described by a reader as
“a humorous and serious tale…this book left me wanting for more.” This poignant
story describes the experiences of a young boy living at his grandparents’ farm
in Oulu, North Finland during the war. A thrilling memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life is an Amazing Song</i> is steeped in the tradition of <i>Angela’s
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pages. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rated five stars in the National
Press. Edited by: Mike Valentino Reviewed by: Jean Purcell, Siggy Buckley,
Laila Sullivan, and others.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Entropy. In his editorial Hekkanen argued that, “Entropy is sown into each and
every system, and our conduct is often determined by our subliminal awareness
of this fact, be it on or off the page.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Elsie
Nurmi, 3rd generation Finn, begins school in rural Minnesota speaking no
English. Yet she becomes a U.S. Protocol Officer leading delegations overseas
using presidential aircraft. She attends coronations, and meets popes and
queens. When diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she begins her most dreaded—yet
transcendent—journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As
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Elsie and her daughter explore the deepest communication possible:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>soul to soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Author's culinary journey: I grew up in a large family on a
farm in the country where we grew our own food and cooked from scratch. After
high school graduation, I spent a year living in Finland as a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">kotiapulainen</i> (home-helper) where I made
my acquaintance with authentic Finnish foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As a wife and mother I got to fine-tune recipes from those earlier years
which I then shared in a cooking column for our local newspaper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 2003, I operated a deli/bakery, where the
items we offered our customers were made using some of our favorite recipes
found in this book - ENJOY!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mother, Esther (Kaurala) Elleson was born in Ely, Minnesota in 1918. She was
the daughter of Paul and Hilja Kaurala who arrived in America from Finland in
1913. Growing up on a farm in Babbitt, Minnesota, my mother and her six
siblings learned to live close to the land and appreciate the simple things in
life. Surviving the “Great Depression” took <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sisu</i>
and determination. In 1939 she left the farm with her older sister, Miriam, and
took the train to St. Paul, Minnesota. Six years later, my mother married
Harold Elleson and they moved to Minneapolis where they started a family.
Esther passed away in May of 1986 just days before her 67<sup>th</sup>
birthday. In the following essay, I share reflections and memories of my
mother’s life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Finnish <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sisu </i>after her first child
was born in Minneapolis in 1945, and I appeared two years later. Even though
WWII had ended, many families still struggled to make it, ours included. Thank
goodness, growing up on the farm, my mother had learned how to remake clothes,
reupholster furniture, create one-pot meals out of a meat bone and vegetables,
and redesign flour sacks into crib sheets. Pancakes were a cheap breakfast
staple. She fixed them so often that even now when I open her 1943 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good Housekeeping Cookbook</i> it
automatically falls open to the “Griddle Cake” recipe on page 490 that’s
falling out in spite of the scotch tape she used to keep it in place. With
ingenuity and perseverance, she turned that little bungalow at 1313 39th Avenue
North into a warm and comfortable home, a place where we felt loved and secure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In May of 1986, I sat in a funeral home
chapel on a hard wooden bench surrounded only by my family, thinking about my
mother, her life and her death. The minister asked if anyone cared to share a
story about Esther. The silence flowed over our bowed heads and sniffles until
my sister talked about the flowers and gardens Mom enjoyed planting—the soil,
sun and lake shore her constant gardening companions. After my sister sat down,
I stood up and shared my fondest memory—my mother pinning my hair up in pin
curls, a nightly event. As I spoke, I could see my mother sitting on the couch
with a rat-tail comb in her hand, a glass of water to moisten my hair, and me
dressed in my pajamas handing her bobby pins one at a time. I realize now that
pin curl time was much more than binding my straight brown hair into curls. It
was “our time” together to talk, problem solve and bond as mother and daughter.
Images of flowers in bloom, bobby pins and rat-tail combs still trigger
memories of my mother and always will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Diane is the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow’s Story of
Love, Loss and Renewal</i>, recently selected “The Beach Book Festival”
runner-up” in the autobiography category. The book’s available at </span><a href="http://www.outskirtspress.com/snowangels"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.outskirtspress.com/snowangels</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. Also, read
more about Diane’s mother, Esther, and her Finnish family in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam Daughter of Finnish Immigrants </i>(Dettmann/Dloniak).
This family memoir is in the process of being translated into Finnish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Both books available on Amazon
and Barnes & Noble in e-book and paperback: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003FHMAUS"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003FHMAUS</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">saari mökki</i> on Lake Vermilion in
Minnesota began in 1972 as a 12’ x 16’ camp shack with shuttered openings but
no windows. My brother Merv built it on leased land with his buddy Dr. Herb
Pick from the University of Minnesota Psychology Department. I bought the camp
from the state of Minnesota in 1992.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My little one-room shelter had a
magnificent broad view of the lake and the sunsets, but I had no electricity,
no plumbing, no dock, and no telephone. Woody, my barrel stove, dominated the
room. One corner was my kitchen: a table, a Sears camp stove that burned
gasoline, and a giant Servel gas fridge I nicknamed Bronko Nagurski.</span></div>
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neighbors built a 12’ X 16’ addition, and I then had an almost 400 sq. ft.
wooden tent with the whole ceiling papered in a blue-and-white awning stripe.</span></div>
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a painful experience with a burst appendix, at last I ordered a telephone. And,
since I’ve married a city guy, we have electricity.</span></div>
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pontoon boat, an authentic Finnish sauna (not sanna!), electric appliances, a
flat-screen TV, wifi, and an actual bedroom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It’s still just a camp, but it’s my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pesä paikka</i>, my nesting place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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For my book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Festivals of Finland</i>,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>I loosely translated the Fate of Aino
poem from the epic Finnish poem Kalevala and illustrated the story with a
prize-winning woodcut print of the golden cuckoos. The Kalevala was written in
1835 by Elias Lönnrot, a country doctor who gathered the folktales of
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Henry Wordsworth Longfellow’s poem, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Song of Hiawatha, </i>is said to have
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Fate of Aino tells the story of a
beautiful young girl being forced by her mother to marry the powerful shaman, Väinämöinen.
Dressed in her wedding finery, Aino wanders weeping through the forests until
she comes to the sea where she sees mermaids and beautiful fish. She decides
rather than marry the old man she will drown herself. Taking off her jewelry
and draping her gown a bush she wades out to a golden rock which sinks to the
bottom of the sea. Aino turns into a fish.</span></div>
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golden island on which rose </span></div>
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vainly thus your daughter</span></div>
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my strength has wholly failed me</span></div>
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Saskatchewan. Fluent in the Finnish language she has written several book and
illustrated them with her woodcut prints that have won numerous awards. She
lives in Winnipeg. </span><a href="mailto:hgbirt@gmail.com" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hgbirt@gmail.com</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my suitcase through the deserted Finnish-American Rest Home lobby, glancing at
the unopened <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Uutiset News</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hear piano music in the dining hall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">12th
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amniotic fluid I’ve swum in for years, fill the air. Mom looks like a
tiny-boned child, her pageboy accenting unusual blue eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They still have fire in them—a flame flicker
only seen up close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her fingers keep a staccato beat as
the next song begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stoop down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Have you got the key to your
room?" Shifting her gaze to me, she answers brightly, "Oh yes I
do." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For the first time, she has not
recognized me.</span></div>
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life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And with it, the frightening sense
that my mother is letting go, forever, of my daughter-child hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She once traveled around the world
on Air Force Two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the walls of her
room, a dozen famous men and women smile out of their official, personally
signed, photographs—President and Jacqueline Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter,
Reagan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An ambitious Finnish-American girl
from Floodwood, Minnesota had come to Washington and become a U.S. State
Department Protocol Officer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She met
popes, astronauts, kings, princes, queens, and dictators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She arranged tours, hotels, meals, parades,
and handed out endless bouquets at arrival ceremonies to First Ladies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Two days later, I let myself into
her room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Curtains drawn, the room looks
empty of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sit on the bed,
watching as she rests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Barbara?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Yes, Mom?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"I don't know what's wrong with
my head.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She turns to face me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Can't you take me to some kind of
doctor?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm so confused."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Mom," I answer,
"It's a memory problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your mother
had it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't think it will go away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's your way of getting old."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I gaze at her tiny fragile
body.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her funny sneakers with rainbow
colors on them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her white anklets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The blue skirt with its loose waistband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her aged v-neck cotton knit pullover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her paper-thin skin with its lines and liver
spots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to feel her silent
world—the one her mother entered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"It
feels like fog, Barbara."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I try to imagine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A gummy world where thoughts get stuck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can't get out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Trapped in an impenetrable darkening
night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mind stillfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Around her, people would keep moving and
talking, loving and laughing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she will
be motionless in a vast strange land of inner silence.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The air conditioner clicks on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cool air begins its trek across the room
through stifling heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sink into my
own silent world—a slow moving river of quiet, filled with its own flotsam of
memories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Westclox ticks its way
like a river barge across the watery world of our minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Outside women walk by chattering in
Finnish. Their voices catapult me into a past of Finnish dances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom firmly holds my little waist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Step-slide-step-slide-swing-swing-swing,” she says as the accordion
sucks air in, blows notes out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I feel so safe in this cocooned
world of words without meaning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I reach over and turn on her tape
recorder. A schottische fills the air. </span></div>
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“Do you want to dance?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two Poems </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>by Michael King<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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Canals<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
lights of Suzhou spangle cityscapes on green <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">canals
the tour boat plies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From aft I watch
the wake <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ripple
clustered tower blocks, tenements, and bars <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">decked
out with neon signs and sprung from concrete banks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
shoreline parks, where flood lamps next to footpaths cast<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">columns
of emerald up to willows, hedgerows strain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">high
beams that cruise on streets past iron fences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Hues<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pour
through, stream out over the mirror-canvas, as <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
prop hurls field grey wash back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Forward, an emcee <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">blares
top forty hits, coaxes fares to whoop it up, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pose
with watery brews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I lift a jug of bai <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">jiu,
soak my throat with fiery notes the bards of old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">passed
around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under bridges, hums of coupes
diffuse <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
scents of ether.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a courtyard paved
with jade <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that
shimmers, outboard motors hush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
vessel drifts <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">among
reflections of a bare mill’s blued rock walls, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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patios draped by gnarly trees’ amber leaves, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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algae-covered slabs, deployed to bear low spans, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">behind
which subtle streams proceed to destinies <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">beyond
the centuries of lotus massed along <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
margins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strands about the murky
passages<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">confound
the helm and current host.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
shallows strew <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
slapdash tones of restless passengers, I’m drawn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">by
shades of roped-off piers before the surface craft.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at eighty-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">five,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pistons
in a row and two</span></div>
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a V, our bikes shoot </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">along
a country two-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">laner’s
curves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we
crest a hill and snap </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
throttles open as, from a slope </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ahead,
blues blaze, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dash
toward us and a park </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in
the gulley between, where we flap<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">denim
flags at the floundering</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">patrol
plowing dirt </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
turn and pursue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With our flight
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">speeds
past one-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">fifteen,
we scorch the grade</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
swoop away through sweepers, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">fling
sparks from foot</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pegs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On straights the trees </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">look
like sticks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The engines </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">howl
a redline duet, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
escape impends,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but the
black </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
white threat—tilted, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tossed,
and bounced about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">by
its bulk—probes the mirrors, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">so
we brake, slide, power </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">onto
an artery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The traffic </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">we
blitz blocks the caged </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">eight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At a roundabout we cleave </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">chaos
through gridlock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we
race </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
the woods, where we slow to a crawl, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">choose
a closer course </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">among
the roots that flow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
a stand of pines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the sirens </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">rush
beyond, chrome </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">exhaust
pipes and polished </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">cooling
fins crackle, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">glaze
ferns with sunlight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By<strong> Charles Peltosalo,<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
woke up feeling confused, alone, and arranged my silence so I could place feet
on floor, face my day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Before
I rolled off my pillow, my Mother’s Shih-tzu woke beside me; petting him and
his snug head and fur, the moments bore less menace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lifting
him to the floor, I watched a cat, a brother from another world, check my
bedroom door,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">While
another darted from his night beneath the bed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Water
put to boil, covers off the birdcages, I faced the loss of my friend Ayla, who
didn’t awake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday
on the bottom of his cage- 22 years of defining cockatiel and brother, friend,
helper had kept his sleep fixed to his home star where he had flown, was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">His
one love, green Raja next to him in her 25<sup>th</sup> year and his bonded
mate was upset by his empty cage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
don’t know what to say to her, but I’m sorry your friend is gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
thought:” I’ll be your better friend now. Like you, I need someone close, so we
are not alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
went outside to put up some tobacco to the 6 directions in the morning light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thoughts
were mashed and confused; the past haunted, the future worried, and the present
swirled and hurt-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
price of being the center of a wheel churning to gain purchase in the day,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
trance-medium’s blues; separate my feelings from those of others-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Anything
out of control is not me, I’m told.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Tobacco
gained as smoke went to 4 directions, cutting the cloud around me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One
to the sky, one to the Earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
one to those attached to me, 7 in all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
felt alone but prayed for Ayla, heard the cardinals pipe up from the dogwoods,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
squirrel high in longneedle pine spied me with his ‘good day’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
bluejay’s call cut the air as road traffic picked up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ayla’s
robust winged spirit joined in, landed on my shoulder and reminded me I’m not
alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
became aware as I stood with my solitary smoke sent to the semicardinal points
that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
was surrounded by friendly spirits- the trance-medium’s joy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
will never be alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday
I hiked the beach in front of Ayla’s first home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When
I reached his house and put up some tobacco for him, shoulder-perched and
free-flying with me all the walk,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2
cirrus clouds were cockatiel heads in the North who retained their shape for
the spirit’s moment, watching us until we made our way home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
morning he passed, the Carolina Rose, only green leaf and stalk all season,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sprang
3 blooms, 2 large up high, 1 small tight separate below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
3 birds’ medicine reflects in plants, thoughts, clouds…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
day has Ayla flying about its’ core, lighting it from within. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">In Memoriam: Terttu Katka, </span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Poet (1916 – 2003)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By<strong> Lisbeth<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Holt</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
spoke the language of life:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Her
lyrics will live forever<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Though
now she lies mute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
walked behind her, her family,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Heads
bowed, tears flowing -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our
sacred walk of communion –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Solemnly
to her altar of death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cast
aside the garment of dust;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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spirit released into the ultimate ethers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last night<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now at last she is unafraid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rain,
incessant, gentle, forgiving, fell;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Absolving
all pain, healing all wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Eternal
mysteries are now revealed to her,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
divine knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now
she knows; now she is that mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
dove grey flag is draped across the skies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
we who love her are comforted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This
is how a woman should dress<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To
emphasize her regal origins, she explained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Nainen
valkoisissa,” a woman in white, for example.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fabric
and form, elegantly cut, is what she intended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remember her “taiteilijan takki,” her artist’s coat of bright colors –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
coat which takes a certain woman with certain flair to wear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
arranged her abundant hair into ringlets crowning her head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
had the poise, the posture, the pride in herself,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
presence to be reckoned with,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Reminding
me of our sacred female legacy…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ancestral
knowledge reveals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
were born daughters of the Queen of Sheba! -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thus
endowed with magnificent powers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To
reshape our world with wisdom, skills, generosity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
such, we are to dress accordingly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
outer display of regal femininity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
flowing white, perhaps, or a collage of bejeweled colors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
is not vanity to proclaim our lineage, our legacy;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It’s
our link with destiny to carry ourselves with luminosity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
presence to be reckoned with!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pronounce...Dzibilchaltun?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
mysterious Mayan site of Dzibilchaltun (“the place with writing of flat
stones”) lies a mere ten miles from Merida in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.
Archaeologists believe it had been settled as far back as 500 B.C. and at its
zenith, had a population of 40,000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Maya had constructed raised limestone
or earthen-filled white roadways called “sacbeob”, some stretching for many
miles between cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels strange
to walk on these ancient pathways to enter the site, knowing they were trod
over a thousand years ago by those who lived here then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Only a few structures have so far been
unearthed here, notably the “Sun Temple,” also called the “Temple of the Seven
Dolls.” Seven pottery anthropomorphic figures had been discovered within the
temple, the only Mayan temple with windows. These “dolls” and other fascinating
treasures can be viewed at the Museo Pueblo Maya nearby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you don’t speak Spanish, I hope you employ
a passionate and entertaining English-speaking guide! Imagine holding hands in
a circle as he claps his hands to demonstrate the acoustics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you hear the quetzal answering?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What makes this site especially
intriguing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the spring and fall
equinoxes, the sun disc boldly appears from east to west in the central opening
of this observatory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Multitudes arrive
before dawn to witness this spectacle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is also precisely when the serpent of light, Kukulcan, descends the
side of El Castillo, the great pyramid in Chichen Itza, also in the Yucatan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The ancient Maya sky-watchers built
these fantastic structures to align with the stars!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Strangely enough, these phenomena were not
“discovered” until 1982 by Mexican Yucatec archaeologist Victor Segovia Pinto
(1907-1986).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Incredibly, Dzibilchaltun also has a
lunar orientation!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A full moon glows
through the observatory opening between March 20 and April 20; Easter-time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Incongruously, here stand the ruins of
an open chapel built at the time of the conquest with hieroglyph-carved stones
from Maya structures...considered to be one of the oldest churches in the
Americas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Maya considered cenotes (sinkholes)
to be entrances to “Xibalba”, the underworld.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Here the clear turquoise Cenote Xlacah, one of the largest and deepest
in the Yucatan, tempts explorers to jump in for a refreshing dip. Maya legends
suggest it was formed by an enormous thunderbolt! It is believed to merge with
a tunnel deep underwater, connecting to miles of underground rivers, emptying
into the Gulf of Mexico.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Once you visit this Mayan site, it will
be impossible to forget it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may
even attempt to pronounce its sacred name: Dzibilchaltun… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ravintolassa pimenev</span><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">än illan suussa,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">matkareitistään tietoinen varis vaakkuu kuusi puussa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">jonka mustaan kahviin tippuu pisara tuskan hiestä.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">ujona, ajatus suunnan kysymisestä ikävästi rintaa
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Mies on väsynyt vierailla seuduilla eksyksissä kulkemaan,</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">muttei koskaan liikkuvaa elämäntapaa valmis sulkemaan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Makea vaeltajan tuska on kuin polttava henkinen tauti,</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">jota ilman hän ei elämästään koskaan täysin nauti.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Ravintola variksen vaakkuessa vihdoin yöllä hiljenee,</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">eksynyt vaeltaja pimeään yöhän askeleitaan viljelee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Wanderer’s
Sweet Suffering <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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sit in the restaurant in the early evening, </span></div>
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crow sure of its course is cawing in the spruce tree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cawing,
like mocking a lost old man, </span></div>
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whose black coffee drips a drop of suffering sweat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Timidly,
the thought of asking for direction sadly cuts his breast. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
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which he cannot fully enjoy his life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">By<strong> Eero Sorila<o:p></o:p></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ansel
Adams once said that a good photograph is made by knowing where to stand. He
took his famous black-and-white photograph of Mount McKinley in 1948. I have a
burning desire to stand in his footseps and also take a photo of Mt McKinley. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After I talk to a fellow photographer,
Henry Jokiniemi, about the project, he wants to join me. Henry is based in
Finland, but crossing the Atlantic is a small matter when it comes to following
the footsteps of Ansel Adams. So is driving the Alaska Highway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After
driving some 2,500 miles we arrive to the Denali National park entrance at nine
o’clock in the morning on September 15<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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left for Wonder Lake, the area where we need to go for the photo. The next
morning, we board the green bus and begin our adventure in Denali. Upon
arriving to our spot that day, we didn’t know that the green busses were on
their last round before retiring for the winter. Had we arrived one day later,
all would have been lost without the possibility of entering the park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
park opened in 1917, and at almost five million acres, it is bigger than the
entire state of Connecticut. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Due to the potential danger of
wildlife, we aren’t allowed to exit the bus to take photos but we can take them
through the windows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An exclamation rises above the rattling
bus: “Bear!” A dozen passengers rush to the left side of the bus to photograph
a grizzly bear. Luckily the bus does not tip over from the weight on one side.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span>The king of the wilderness looks like
he weighs close to nine hundred pounds and mesmerizes everyone in the bus,
moving like a bulldozer across the tundra. A full-grown grizzly can run thirty
miles per hour. Not exactly, a walk in the park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Top
running speed for humans has been clocked at close to twenty-eight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is a reminder of our insignificance
in Denali National Park.Walking along a gravel road, surrounded by immeasurable
silence we hear the sound of the green bus in the late afternoon. We hop on,
bid farewell to Denali and drive away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Like the bears, the green busses
settle to hibernate until a new spring arrives, when the park wakes up to new
life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Continuing home, I think about the
solitude of Denali, far away from a busy world, a mesmerizing haven of silence.
Henry returns to Finland with a good collection of wilderness photos. I also
have a few.</span><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">The experience was a <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">rare walk in
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1.
Mt. McKinley (Denali), the highest mountain in North America pierces the blue sky at 20,237ft above
sea level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Grizzly bear, the king of wilderness is an awesome sight. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An adaptation of Kaarlo Kramsu’s <i>“Ilkka.”</i></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Waino W. Korpela<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He
died upon the gallows but his deeds will long be </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">known</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for
they’re etched deep in the psyche of Suomi’s gnarled soul.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">No
blue blood gave him status-he was just a common man-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">but
his courage and his <em>sisu </em>left a mark upon the land. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For
the Fates decreed that Ilkka would lead the rebel fight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in
a failed insurgence against the tyrant’s might.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
was an age of despots, anguish, doubts and tears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">but
Jakko Ilkka, yeoman, was a man who conquered fear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Knowing
that i</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">njustice
will ever be sustained</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">unless
the ones downtrodden will fight to break the chain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
those who fight for freedom know the victory lies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">near
the shore of darkness where heroes bleed and die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hence
when men were beckoned, Suomi’s men </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">replied</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">faster
than an arrow speeding through the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rebellion
spread throughout the land with bloody battles fought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
sacrifice those heroes made must never be forgot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With
clubs those Finnish farmers fought for what is right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">but
the tyrant and his army crushed their freedom fight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Vanquished
men were butchered though mercy had been vowed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
Ilkka climbed the gallows, calm, with head unbowed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
thus the Suomi nation heeds the lesson Ilkka gave:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Death
from hanging’s better than living as a slave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The selection “Ilkka” is taken
from the book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finn.</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finn</i> includes a history of Finland in
verse-each verse documented with actual happenings in Finnish history-and other
writings by the author about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sisu, </i>the
St. Urho legend, growing up in a Finnish-American community and his perspectives
on life.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Finn, </i>edited and published by Ernest J. Korpela, can be obtained by
calling the editor at 715 742-3349 or email him at </span><a href="mailto:korpela@cheqnet.net"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">korpela@cheqnet.net</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Orders with a check for $14.95 per book can
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">First,
you need to pronounce it correctly. It has nothing to do with paste or
burlesque dancers. Pasty rhymes with nasty. This is not to imply in any way
that the pasty is an unpleasant digestive experience. On the contrary, it’s a
tasty, humble, and somewhat portable food that doesn’t come in a bun or wrapped
in a tortilla.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As tin mining in Cornwall, U.K.
declined, miners came to this country to find a new life. Some landed in
Michigan’s U.P., attracted to jobs in the burgeoning copper mines. Along with their
mining expertise, the Cornishmen (or more likely, the Cornishwomen) imported
with them their pasty recipes. Finnish immigrants, who worked alongside the
Cornish, adopted the pasty and it has become strongly associated with the
Finnish culture in the Copper Country. </span></div>
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pasty is a ridiculously simple thing, invented out of need for an economical
stick-to-the-ribs meal that could be carried down into the mines in a lunch
pail. Chopped, sliced, and diced meat and vegetables make up the filling, which
is placed on a flat pastry circle. The pastry is folded into a half- moon shape
and the edges crimped to form a seal. After baking, the mouth-watering
semicircular pasty emerges, all golden brown and wafting a delectable aroma. </span></div>
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Yoopers tenaciously protect their recipes. Others will be vague—oh, dis and
dat, which means whatever is available. Rumor has it that lard is the secret
ingredient in the crust. Fear not, in an effort to support heart-healthiness,
most pasties have abandoned the use of lard. However, the much maligned
rutabaga is often found within the flaky crust of a U.P. Pasty.</span></div>
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your pasty etiquette, eh? Many like ketchup on their pasties. This is
acceptable. Others like gravy, which is also okay. Nobody has ever considered
using ranch dressing, mango salsa, or Dijon mustard on a pasty, so don’t ask
because to do so would be a sacrilege and possibly punishable by banishment to
a foreign country like New Jersey. Then there’s your pasty purist. (S)he will
only accept this food sans condiments or doctoring of any kind and may become
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Arnold R. Alanen</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Making of ‘Finns in Minnesota”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12:00 p.m. DOW 642</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sheila Packa</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Poetry Writing: dancing with the
Past”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 132<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Josef Aukee--</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Poetry Reading</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 139<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Jouni Korkiasaari</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Lecture<br />
“Genealogist in the Footsteps of Finnish Immigrants”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">3:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 127<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beth Virtanen</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A Poet’s Perspective on Her Work:
Reflections on and a Reading from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Guarding
Passage”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 101<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Börje Vähämäki</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What Everyone Should Know About the
Kalevala"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 138<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friday,
June 21</span></b><br />
<strong></strong> </div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Panel discussion</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Promoting Finnish and
Finnish-American Literature in North America." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Participants of the panel are
Richard Impola, Scott Kaukonen, Jarkko Sipilä, Jouko Sipilä, Beth Virtanen,
Börje Vähämäki, and G.K. Wuori (Helena Halmari facilitator). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:00 a.m. MTU Fisher 125</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Panelists will give a brief (up to
5-10 minutes) introduction of how Finnish and/or Finnish American literature
and culture are promoted in their areas. Successes and possible challenges will
be addressed, and the discussion will then be opened to the audience. Audience
questions will be addressed, and topics will be elaborated on. We hope to see
plenty of audience participation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10:00
a.m. MTU Fisher 125<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Lillian Lehto</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Reading</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“The Copper Country Strike of 1913”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">12:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 325<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Arnold R. Alanen</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Finnish rural Buildings and Landscapes in
Michigan’s U.P.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">1:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 138<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Jane Piirto—Lecture </span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“The Finnishness of my Americanness Redux</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 126</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Börje Vähämäki</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Kalevala and Worldview”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 130<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Jouni Korkiasaari</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">--Lecture<br />
“Finnish American Hall of Fame”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2:00 p.m. MTU Fisher125<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ismo Söderling</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Finland and Its Demographic Future to 2050”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 127</span><br />
</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Saturday,
June 22<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">FinNALA Board Meeting</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">10:00 a.m. MTU Fisher 131<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Karen Johnson</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Lecture </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Picturing the Past: Finlandia
University, 1896 to the Present”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10:00 a.m. MTU Fisher 127<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"></span></o:p></span></u><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ismo Söderling</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Lecture</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“The Institute of Migration and Its
Collections”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">10:00 a.m. MTU Fisher 127</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><u>Marlene Wisuri</u>--Lecture </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>"Sharing You Family History"</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>10:00 a.m. MTU Fisher 113</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Marianne Wargelin</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Lecture </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“The Hymn Tradition of Finland and Finnish
American</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">11:00 a.m. MTU Fisher 101</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">FinNALA Public Meeting-Open Membership Meeting</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">11:00 a.m. MTU Fisher 133</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Ismo Söderling</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Lecture</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Finnish Milestones in Emigration to South and
North America”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">11:00 a.m. MTU Fisher 125<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><u>Marlene Wisure, Faith Fjeld, and Cari Mayo</u>--Presentation and Panel Discussion</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>"The North American Sami Reawakening from FinnFest 92 to FinnFest 12"</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p>12:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 127</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gary V. Anderson</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Lecture and Poetry<u> </u></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Five Steps to Successful Family Memoirs: How
to Get started” 1:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 101. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Poetry: Reading from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Finnish </i>Soul and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bunchgrass
and Buttercups</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 101<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Steve Lehto</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Lecture</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Italian Hall Disaster: What we
Know 100 Years Later”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 138<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Jouni Korkiasaari</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Lecture <br />
“Finnish American Landmarks”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 125<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Börje Vähämäki</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Shamans in the Kalevala”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3:00 p.m. MTU Fisher 138<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">G. K. Wuori</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Fiction
Reading<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>"The Meaning of Life Revealed”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">3:00 MTU Fisher 101<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Joyce Koskenmaki</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">—Art Exhibiter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Joyce will be having a show of her new work at
the Community Arts Center in Hancock for the entire month of June. Joyce’s
reception will be Saturday, June 22<sup>nd</sup> from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. All
galleries in Calumet and Hancock, as well as at the Rozsa Center on the campus
of Michigan Technological University will feature work by Finnish artists, both
local and international.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">“Rural Reflections: Finnish buildings in the
copper Country”</span></div>
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Authors – Sell Your
Book(s) at FinnFest 2013!</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If want to make your book(s)
available at FinnFest 2013 (June 19 to 23) in Houghton/Hancock, Michigan, then
FinNALA has a great opportunity for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
a modest $20.00 (U.S.) fee, FinNALA will:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>1. display your book on its table in the Tori for the duration of
FinnFest; 2. keep a small reserve supply to replace sold books; 3.
keep an accounting of all books sold so that sale monies can be given to each
participating author; 4. keep you from having to pay the $300 fee to rent
and staff your own sale table; and 5. staff the FinNALA table during all
regular Tori hours of the FinnFest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
think this will be a great opportunity for our authors to gain exposure and to
make some money, whether they can attend or not. If you’re interested and will
be present at FinnFest, please contact me as soon as possible at bethlvirtanen
at </span><a href="http://yahoo.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #008216; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">yahoo.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If
you are unable to attend FinnFest and wish for your <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>books to be sold at the FinNALA table, please
contact me at the email address above. Also, no more than seven (7) days before
FinnFestUSA2013 (no earlier than June 12), mail no more than ten copies of each
book you wish to make available at the FinNALA booth in a USPS priority mailer
to the following address: FinnFest Tori Vendor, Student Development Complex –
MTU, 101 MacInnes Dr., Houghton, MI 49931. <b>Mark your box clearly:
Finnish-North American Literature Association. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enclose
with your books, a check or money order for $20 made payable to “FinNALA” for
the display costs and a self-addressed stamped envelope in order to receive
proceeds from your book sales. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NOTE:
FinNALA will not pay postage for the return of unsold books, so you should be
sure to make arrangements with Beth (bethlvirtanen at </span></b><a href="http://yahoo.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #008216; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">yahoo.com</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">)
for return postage for unsold items.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<b>Unsold books for which no return postage arrangements have been made will be
discarded by July 14, 2013—be sure to make arrangements. </b></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #990000;">Volunteers Needed!<o:p></o:p></span></u></h4>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Volunteers are needed to staff
the FinNALA table in the Tori for FinnFest 2013. If you can give us an
hour or two just once or, hopefully, several shifts of an hour or two it would
be greatly appreciated. Responsibilities include telling people what
FinNALA’s all about, keeping track of books displayed and sold at our table,
being really nice and meeting just a whole bunch of people and possibly running
into someone you haven’t seen in years. If you can give us some help on
this please contact Beth at blvirtanen at gmail dot com. We’ll work out
the schedule. Thanks!!</span></h4>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Kippis! </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Contest Winners Announced</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our
fifth annual <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis!</i> literary contest
brought forth exciting entries ranging from the beautiful to the bizarre, with
all of them providing fascinating reading for the judges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worth noting, too, was the broad range of
experience of our entrants – a few emerging and even unpublished writers, and a
few with long lists of publishing credits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kelly Nelson’s two poems, “First Trip As
A Widow,” and “Blood Loss,” brought her into the winners circle with a first-place
award.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming in second was Gary V.
Anderson’s poem, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ruoantähteet.” </i>Rounding
out the group was Marlene Mattila Stoehr with her short story, “The Bells Of
Karstula.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The work of these winners as well as
other contest and non-contest submitters will be available in June both in
print and on the Kippis! website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The editors wish to extend a sincere
thanks to all those who entered the contest as well as those who sent in
regular submissions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We depend on your
work and hope that the home we provide for it is worthy of your efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Beth Virtanen
& G. K. Wuori<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Sirpa T.
Kaukinen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This
spring we are marking a most important anniversary date for all Finns and
Swedes and their descendants living in North America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was 375 years ago that a small group of
Swedes and Finns (Finland was then a Duchy of Sweden) first arrived at the mouth
of the Delaware River in early 1638.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
had taken three months for these twenty-six individuals to sail, first to
Holland, and then journey across the rough and wintry Atlantic Ocean in a small
sailing vessel called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kalmar Nyckel</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A leader for this crossing was Dutchman Peter
Minuit.1 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This May a replica of the original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kalmar Nyckel</i> arrived at the Fort
Christina Park (named after the then child-queen Christina of Sweden) in the
city of Wilmington, USA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aboard were the
Swedish King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia, as well as speaker of the Finnish
Parliament Eero Heinäluoma and Mrs. Heinäluoma.2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Finns of the early 1600’s were used
to living in forests and cutting trees into logs and using these logs to build
homes, some of which remain to this day, and which eventually became to be
known as the American log cabin.3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Finns
travelled to the New World throughout the 1800 and 1900’s and it is estimated
that some 750,000 Finnish immigrants and their descendents now live in the
United States.4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sources
– 1 & 3 - Engle, Eloise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finns in North America</i>, Leeward
Publications, Inc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">1975. </span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">2 & 4 - Niskakangas, Tuomas – Wilmington, USA – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">375 Vuotta Amerikassa</i> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">375 Years in America</i>, article in
Helsingin Sanomat, Ulkomaat, May 13, 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Sirpa Kaukinen named Assistant Editor </h3>
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to FinNALA Newsletter<o:p></o:p></h3>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U9DDwoFruw0/UaUyxkj5HZI/AAAAAAAAAIM/2h9yYxLeRHY/s1600/Sirpa+Photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U9DDwoFruw0/UaUyxkj5HZI/AAAAAAAAAIM/2h9yYxLeRHY/s1600/Sirpa+Photo.jpg" height="320" width="256" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Sirpa
Kaukinen, our assistant editor, lives in Ontario, Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was educated in both Finland and Canada,
and received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from York University in
Toronto.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She worked for 23 years at the
Toronto Hospital where her work centered on writing and producing small
publications and public relations documents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sirpa writes in English and Finnish languages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is the winner of several short story
writing competitions including a first place winner of the first issue of
Kippis with a short story – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">No Place for
a Woman</i> – and a second place winner of a North American short story
competition which stories were collected into a book - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lännen Kultaan Kurkottamassa</i> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Searching
for the Western Gold</i> - and published by Werner Söderström OY in Finland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sirpa says she enjoys reading and editing the
immigrant experience poetry and stories published in the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">FinNALA</i> Newsletter and the literary journal, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis</i>!</div>
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">She
says it’s interesting to note how strong the north south family connections of
the Finnish immigrants </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">who travelled to the USA prior to 1924 and to Canada thereafter
remain to this day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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Hekkanen and Margrith Schraner have recently finished publishing Vol. 16, No. 1
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Orphic Review</i>, the theme
of which is “Addicted to Story.” Hekkanen’s painting, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Time for Assassins</i>, graces the cover. A Sweet Sixteen Anniversary
Celebration was held for their magazine on May 17 at the Oxygen Art Centre in
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In sorrow I was happy, for in me you remain a
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As the first born to my parents in the
city of <i>Jyv</i></span><i><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">äskylä</span></i><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"> Finland, it was very exciting for me to run away from home almost as soon
as I was able to walk. I had a good home and loving parents but the excitement
of adventure was too much for me to resist. Even if my escapades were limited
to a few city blocks, I felt like a world explorer.</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To travel 225
km ( 140 mi )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mostly by train to the
family summer cottage in <i>Tuusniemi </i>was nothing short of euphoria.
Looking out from the train window the pristine landscapes with birch trees and
lakes formed a gliding panorama. It was the best movie of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Already with
my grandparents it had been a family tradition to stop in the city of <i>Kuopio</i>
to buy provisions for the time of stay in the cottage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will never forget one grocery item. It was
about a foot and a half long <i>salami </i>sausage. The high salt content would
preserve the <i>salami</i> without the need for refrigeration. There is nothing
like a buttered piece of hard tack-<i>näkkileipä</i> crowned with a slice of <i>salami</i>.
In culinary terms it is a jewel among many other delightful morcels in the
finnish diet.</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we arrived
to the cottage named <i>Koivuranta</i> it was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>a new world for me to discover. There was no end to the excitement. The
cottage, shed-<i>aitta</i> and the smoke- heat sauna-<i>savusauna</i> were all
made in a traditional way from pine logs. Many sauna experts maintain that the
soft heat of a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>savusauna</i> cannot
be matched<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by any other heat. I was
fortunte to experience that sweet heat at a very young age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <i>savusauna</i>
was only a few steps from the lake named <i>juojärvi</i> which covers 85 sq mi
( 220 sq km ). The water was crystal clear with plenty of fish like perch, pike
and roach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As I stood on
the steps of the <i>savusauna</i> my eyes could not escape a most beautiful
sight. It was my grandfather’s row-boat-<i>soutuvene</i>. In Finland with over
60 thousand lakes the wooden row-boat has been a mode of transportation since
time immemorial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Master boat builders were highly esteemed
species that were proud of their work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are two basic styles of Finnish
row-boats: the <i>savolais</i> and <i>h</i></span><i><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">ämäläis</span></i><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"> types. The first one is lower in height and it has a
sharper turning radius than the second one. Similar boat styles are used in
Karjala-<i>Karelia</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
boatbuilders would first choose a naturally curved tree from the forest and use
it for making the bow. It had to be strong like a trunk of a tree from which
the pine boards, like tree branches would be formed to complethe the boat. The
exterior was covered with a coat of tar to make the boat water repellent.
Tarring of the boat was like a joyful ritual repeated every spring. After a
long winter to tar a boat was a sign of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>much waited summer. </span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today the
master boat builders from the old school are rare to find in Finland.
Fortunately traditional row-boat building courses are given in Finnish community
colleges. This way the young people will learn to appreciate, perpetuate and
enjoy a tradition which has been a vital part of Finland for centuries. Janne
Vilkuna a professor in the University of <i>Jyväskylä</i> is one of the top
experts in the cultural history of wooden row-boats in Finland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While visiting
Finland years ago, to take a trip with my grandfather</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">’s row-boat was
something very special. The boat pierced the calm water like a knife made by <i>Iisakki
J</i></span><i><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">ärvenpää</span></i><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">. Even the smell of
tar eminating form every board of the boat was better than any perfume.</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lately
aluminum and fiberglass row-boats<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have
become popular in Finland, but for me there is nothing like a traditional
wooden row-boat.</span></div>
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row-boat for the first time I traveled widely to find and photograph more of
these jewels of Finland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">30 travel destination of hair
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Look!
A skimmer!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Haven’t
seen one in years.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Not
since we were</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">at
Aunt Elsa’s farm in ’49. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lot
at that butter churn!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Just
like Aunt Elsa’s!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
cream refused to turn to butter</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">till
she took over the churning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There’s
the whatchamacallit!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Grandpa
used one just like that</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
slice slats from pine logs</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
weave them into baskets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
aren’t those skis a hoot!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With
leather straps</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
slip over curly-toe boots.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
had a pair like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
God!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
just realized—</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">my
whole life is</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in
a museum!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Ghost Arms<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Lots
of good wind going to waste!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That’s
what he would have cried,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">my
greedy sailor, on a day like this,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when
the laundry flaps on the line,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">like
the luffing sails of his boat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
whipped to life by a strong breeze</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
sleeves of a shirt—not his—</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">fill
with air, puff out, and wave wildly,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">like
ghost arms, still reaching for me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from
beyond the grave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">My Yellow Rose<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Fran Wiideman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The sign said, “Yellow Roses 50 cents.”
They were thick, full, so yellow in the dimly lit case. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Why so cheap?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“They’ve opened too much. They won’t
last long anymore.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Oh.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Too full. Not buds anymore. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I’ll take one.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She wrapped it up in green paper,
stapled it and took my fifty cents plus tax and wished me a nice day. Then I
carried my long stemmed yellow rose all the way through the mall and out to the
parking lot. Then home. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At home I had to tear that green paper to
get my rose out. It lay there full, yellow, and alive. Thick petals curling up
and around the stamens in the center. Golden rods hidden in yellow velvet
petals. Fragrant. I picked it up to smell the fragrance. Like summertime. Like
sunshine. Full, fragrant, fragile. Not really fragile. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I found the little vase, the white one.
Ran some water into it. Then put it on the edge of the table and knelt down to
measure the rose against it. Up and down I moved the rose. How much should I
cut off? About there. It will be twice the height of the vase. Cut it right
now, with the knife. Then I pushed it gently into the vase. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The rose stood there, strong, straight,
full and yellow. I pushed away the other stuff that cluttered up the table,
always that clutter. Books. Papers. Onto the floor. The typewriter too. And the
napkin holder. Off to the counter. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There. Just the yellow rose in its vase
on the middle of the table. Yellow, like the sun. Warm. Fragrant. My yellow
rose for fifty cents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Prose and Poetry </span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By W. S.
Anderson</span><br />
<br />
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">FIRE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
first time I knew fire was, I think, a time before I remember. But I’ve heard
the story enough that I do.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was maybe three or four. My mother was
cleaning, as she always did. She had removed the metal grate from our furnace
and propped it against a wall in the living room. This grate was like any other
you might find covering the floor or wall vents of a house, where heat wafted
into rooms. Only it was much bigger than most, as it covered the only opening
that heated our entire downstairs. The grate covered a three-by-four-foot
hole in the floor where our furnace dropped into a metal encasement, which
fitted into the dirt cellar below. Feeding the furnace was a big tank of oil
behind our house. Wearing shoes or thick slippers to stand on top of that grate
in winter was the best way to get warm, as heat would blow directly onto your
legs and bum and entire body. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This morning Mom meant to snake the
vacuum hose around the furnace depths to clean out the soot. I was standing
nearby, and she commanded me to “stay put right there.” She got on her
knees. She turned on the vacuum. She looked at me, decided I was safe, and
began to concentrate on the task at hand. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That’s when I decided something else:
that this was way too interesting for me to remain a spectator -- and one
without even a good view. I moved closer. I crouched. I peered. My body
slackened, and the next thing I knew I was headed into the big hole that housed
our home’s burning heart. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mom was faster. She snatched me by the
back of my pajamas just as my hand brushed hot metal. I screamed, and she
rushed me to the kitchen and shoved my whole arm under cold water. She put
Vaseline on the giant blister that was forming -- folks did, with burns, in
those days. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To this day I have a barely discernible
scar on the back of my right hand -- not the mark of the devil, exactly, but
the mark of what my mom would come to call “that devilish Wendy Sue.” It became
a point of pride for Mom as years went on -- the time her curious little Wendy
took a tumble into the furnace, just to see what it was like, and her sainted
mother rescued her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;">
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border: currentColor; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gone Woods Queer</i>, a memoir-in-progress about growing up in a tiny
town of Swedish, Finnish, and French-Canadian immigrants in north-central
Maine.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b><br />
<br />
<h3 class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
Holding
On<o:p></o:p></h3>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
best friend, Vicki, is in our kitchen</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">playing
dolls. She yanks a sweater</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">over
Tressy’s big head and topples</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">her
Kool-Aid free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
mother is on her fast.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My God! I just
washed that floor an hour ago.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I told you to be
careful</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">with that drink</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
mother talks loud</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as
head of our Sunday School;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
in the choir she is the fiercest voice.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Just go outside!
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">she
shouts suddenly<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This instant!
Scoot! Scoot!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
her voice drops.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Better yet,
Vicki, you go back</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to your own
house.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let your own
mother</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">clean your
messes.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You can’t even
be trusted</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to play right in
other people’s homes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
mother doesn’t like Vicki’s mom,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">who
works in a tavern</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
the Greenville Road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
gets in Vicki’s face.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I know you’ll
end up</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a fat little
whore</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">just like her,</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">so why don’t you</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">go on home?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
only sound is the slamming door</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
Vicki’s shriek across our yard.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
run down behind the barn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
the garden, to my dad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The
First Summer<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Sirpa T.
Kaukinen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My first summer
at the boarding house, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hot water and
soap blister my hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The cook
urges:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Bring stew to the men. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Do the dishes
later whenever you can.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The kitchen
heats to a sauna on a summer day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I dry my sweaty
forehead with a towel astray. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The cook
snaps:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Take the pie to the table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wipe your face
on something when you’re able.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Walking home
tired in the evening breeze. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thinking about
the distance across the sea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My aunt sees the
teardrops on my face. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Why the
tears?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I washed dishes at the same
place.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sirpa T.
Kaukinen, from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finnish-Canadian <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Poetry Collection: Greetings from Canada</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">~~</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></i></div>
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Flying
to Marquette</h3>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Jane Piirto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Rise from the waters, mistress</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with your spirits” </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Runo 12</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, Kalevala<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Flying to Marquette, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">over Lake Michigan,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sunshine burnishing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ripples far below, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it bodes unwelcome,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in far depths of greatness;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lakes, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and a forlorn and deserted island</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">beneath a fluff of white,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the golden water gleaming</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as if it were not menace</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but beckon</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
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A Finnish Grandfather Remembered<o:p></o:p></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Diane
Dettmann<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A box of family pictures</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tucked in a trunk—forgotten.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A musty odor releases </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time gone by.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Embracing the tattered photo,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My grandfather’s hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clasps mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grandpa Kaurala’s wrinkled face,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weathered from wind and toil,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whispers, “Dinah.”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Memories of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Time together</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the barn, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The carpenter shop,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And distant potato fields</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Echo through my soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His smile pulls me back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To the Minnesota farm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cultivated with Finnish hands </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beyond his tattered pants</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And the manure stained boots,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His spirit shines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With pride and joy of family, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A Finnish heritage preserved, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And a life in America</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well lived. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My grandfather, Paul Kaurala, was
born in Kiuruvesi, Finland on October 1, 1888. He left his childhood home at
the age of twenty-five to build a new life in America. He arrived in Montreal,
Canada in 1913 with little more than the clothes on his back and his Finnish
leather boots on his feet. After spending a year in Montreal as a logger, in
late 1914, he left Canada. Working a variety of jobs, he arrived in Ely,
Minnesota and eventually found steady employment in the iron ore mines. In
1917, he married my grandmother, Hilja Lukkarila, a young woman from Simo,
Finland who he had met on the ship. In 1923, Paul and Hilja moved their growing
family to a piece of property in rural Babbitt, Minnesota that Paul Kaurala had
purchased several years earlier. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My family spent many summer
vacations on my grandparents’ farm in Babbitt, Minnesota in the 1950s. Many
years have passed, but the fond memories remain. The following poem is a
tribute my grandfather’s strength, courage and Finnish “sisu”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read about Diane’s Finnish family in
her book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam Daughter of Finnish
Immigrants </i>(Dettmann/Dloniak) at < </span><a href="http://www.outskirtspress.com/dianedettmann"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.outskirtspress.com/dianedettmann</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">> Also, Diane’s memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow’s Story of Love, Loss and Renewal </i>is
available at </span><a href="http://www.outskirtspress.com/snowangels"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.outskirtspress.com/snowangels</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong>SNAKES ALIVE!</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><strong><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</strong><span style="font-size: small;">By Hazel Lauttamus Birt</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
2013 is the Chinese Year of the Snake, which reminds me of the nice sunny day
my family and I were visiting the cemetery in our home place New Finland,
Saskatchewan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All of a sudden my sister Norma started
to scream hysterically. We all rushed over to see what was the matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“A snake, a snake!” she cried. “It was
at least three feet long and it ran over my bare feet!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
had forgotten that we Finns shared our New Finland Cemetery with garter snakes;
it was also called “Snake Hill”!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My sister Effie then recalled that when
she was a teenager she was visiting old Mrs. Rautio on the farm next to Snake
Hill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Make us some coffee (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">keitä kahvia</i>) ordered the old woman.
Effie went to the stove and started to scream, “snake, Snake!” (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Käärme, Käärme</i>!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Olle
hilja!”</i> (Shut up!) the woman said. “It won’t harm you. In fact I like them,
they eat rats and mice and other than drink milk from the pails at milking time
they do no harm.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We’ll be visiting the cemetery again
this summer but we’ll be sure to keep our shoes on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hazel Lauttamus Birt grew up on
her grandparents homestead in New Finland, Saskatchewan. She has written
several books on her Finnish heritage illustrated with award winning woodcut
prints. She lives in Winnipeg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~</span></span></b></div>
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Homeless
In My Own Country<o:p></o:p></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Anita
Erola<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Was I<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A lakeside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nordic
summer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Slate
steps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dewey with
moss<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wildflowers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adorn the
way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To the
sauna</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By the
water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
solitude</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By the
tranquil lake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Longing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not
belonging<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Homeless
in my own country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reflecting
on water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seeking
answers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Below the
surface</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fish dart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Too small
for grandmother’s soup</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With
potatoes and dill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I quietly
listen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hoping for
answers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contemplating</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Being<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Homeless
in my own country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pondering</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taking
steps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To the
water</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For a swim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Across the
lake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aspen
trees call<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
recollect them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By the
window<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their
distant welcome</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is not the
same<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reconciling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My
memories and being<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Homeless
in my own country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The sun
warms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The water glistens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A family
of swans</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Brings the
answer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
peaceful stride</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They glide</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Living in
peace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
harmony<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their
being<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How it is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is what it
is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
solitude</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I ponder
my own being<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Homeless
in my own country.</span></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
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Viola Turpeinen </h3>
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Musician,
1909-1958<o:p></o:p></h3>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">By Sheila Packa</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The pendulum of the clock swung –</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">the bodies in motion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Think of grandmother’s face</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">when she was young.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The accordions echo time and resistance</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">inebriate Prohibition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">go from straight to syncopation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">uneven rhyme. Close your eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The places her toes wore through</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">dancing shoes gave way</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">to the rise of smoke in neon haze</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">silver light on your mic.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Open the clasp on the case</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">spread the diamond, lift</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">the bellows, press the chords</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">open wide this gift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">The hellos of death, nothing can erase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">the bloom of birds in paradise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">No words can place the miles you ride</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">along the coast at sunset.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">You played the halls,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">emptying your chest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">In the velvet dark, sorrow</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">holds its breath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">Once you slid into the leather harness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">(no voice tomorrow)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">hands on the ivories and ebonies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">made the stars race in a steeplechase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">heedless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
View the video "Wildwood River" by Sheila Packa and Kathy McTavish<br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/64887018">http://vimeo.com/64887018</a><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><span style="font-size: large;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Two Poems <o:p></o:p></h3>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"></span></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";">by Michael King<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho";"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
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A Pause before Parting<o:p></o:p></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><o:p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Endowed with the
figure of Pallas, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">She ponders the grand Summer Palace, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">where pavilions applaud as She passes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Secured in glass cases, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">ancient works of exquisite art </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">glimmer in the glaze of Her brown eyes’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">brilliant rays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Classic curves </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">caress Miranda’s gossamer green </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">dress while gardens grow by Her grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Hand in hand, we climb Longevity Hill </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">and look out over Kunming Lake from the
top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Her charming chubby cheeks fill </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">the opulent imperial chalice before us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Below, lotus leaves and blossoms reach </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">upwards, revel in response to Her
resplendence, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">which reigns over Yíhé Yuán.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">On a ferry departing from beside </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">the Cloud-Dispelling Gate, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">She sits mulling over the deck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Her cheery cheeks have chilled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">All I can do is kneel at the bow </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">as Her surrendering frown and somber eyes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">obscure the once-blue sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Walking along the West Dyke, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">we see a flicker amongst flowers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">beneath willows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A dew-drinking </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">phoenix flushes, flashes its flames.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Blushing qilins approach and gently </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">paw Miranda’s puffy pink </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">cheeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While we rest at a stony beach,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Her mesmerizing smile returns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From atop </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">the Mirror Bridge, Her eyes beam </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">blessings to drifting dragon boats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Evening begins to engulf </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">the Garden of Nurtured Harmony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Towers and temples bow </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">their arching eaves as we walk </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">slowly down the Long Corridor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Miranda’s gauzy green dress </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">dances around Her classic contours, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">sways beside swirling shadows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Admiral (Plymouth, England, Winter 1982)</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Watch keeps me inside while tugs push </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">us upriver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After we dock </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">I sway on sea legs past RN <br />
sentries and take out fish and chips;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">immersed in vinegar, they burn <br />
my tongue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along a row of pubs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">an old man calls across the street. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Invited to a tiny house, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">I meet the missus and we drink </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">tea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Photos tell a World War tale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">The admiral talks of history,<br />
asks of storms I’ve weathered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We pause,<br />
regard our countries legacies<br />
before I’m taken on a tour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">His tiny sedan’s engine raps </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">and its gears whack as we sail<br />
past traffic and modern sprawl, which </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">surrounds an old cathedral, missed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">by blitz bombs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the Barbican,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">our journey’s end, the granite steps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">read, “Mayflower 1620.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">YOOPER TRIANGLE CLAIMS TAPIOLA MAN</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Terri Martin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Combining
the words “blaze orange” and “camouflage” creates an oxymoron. Camouflage (camo)
implies concealment and blaze orange (B.O.), on a clear day, is visible in
Canada. Wearing B.O. is nothing but a flagrant disregard of our national
security, leaving us vulnerable to attack by Canada. Secret sources indicate
the Canadians have been studying the feasibility of invading the U.S. via the
U.P. ever since the Mackinac Bridge was built. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And don’t think, for one minute, that
your “turkey hunting camos” are safe, either. It’s just foolhardy to wear that
neutral stuff. Take, for example, this heart-wrenching story that comes from
Mrs. Philomema Heikkinen of Tapiola. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It all started,” she reported to
the deputy sheriff, “when I sent my husband Bucky—well his real name’s Bill but
everyone calls him Bucky, for short—out to get the paper, which by the way, is
delivered to a box about a half mile down the road. He was wearing his camo
Carhartts and, well, I—I think that he just blended away into the scenery,” she
concluded with a trembling voice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The deputy taking her statement
nodded his head knowingly and muttered: “Had he been wearing B.O., I’d say the
Canadians got him, but since he was neutral, I’m afraid it’s another notch in
the tree for the (dramatic pause) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yooper
Triangle.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This made Mrs. Heikkinen gasp and
bury he face in her hands and sob: “No! No!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A helpful neighbor, Al, who they
call Porky for short, along with the deputy conducted a vigilant search but
eventually (after about twenty minutes) had to terminate the hunt, so to speak,
on account of darkness and also Porky’s wife told him to get in for supper or
she was feeding it to the dogs. The search did not resume the next day because
Porky said he wanted to get his fishing shanty on the bay before all the good
spots were taken. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The police, every duty-bound,
suggested that Mrs. Heikkinen put a fresh pasty out on the porch to see if her
husband might get good and hungry and be guided home by the smell. The
Heikkinens had been blessed with an excellent rutabaga crop that year and Mrs.
H. was able to put numerous odoriferous pasties on her porch for several weeks,
all of which disappeared. However, Bucky was never spotted and Mrs. Heikkinen
was beginning to run low on rutabagas. Police stepped up their efforts by
borrowing a live bear trap (the humane kind) from the DNR and suggested that
Mrs. Heikkinen put the pasty bait in the trap. Though this did not result in
the “capture” of her husband, she did successfully cage a large, grumpy black
bear that had apparently been lured out of hibernation by a warm spell and the
wafting aroma of Mrs. Heikkinen’s pasties. Mrs. H said that the bear, named
“Bucky 2” was not a whole lot different than having “Bucky 1” around, so she
let him (the bear) say “on a trial basis.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To make a long story short—well
maybe it’s too late for that—but anyway, you fellas can see the risks of
wearing camouflage. Yous may wander into the woods and come back to find a bear
in your recliner hogging the remote control. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Terri Martin, Editor-in-Chief<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><o:p><strong></strong></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Continue your connections and support FinNALA: renew your membership at our website at </span><a href="http://www.finnala.com/"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">www.finnala.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Membership is $20.00 (US) for 2013. You can renew by mail by sending your check or money order made payable to "FinNALA" to Beth Virtanen, President, FinNALA, P.O. Box 11, New Blaine AR 72851, or renew by PayPal by visiting </span><a href="http://www.finnala.com/"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">www.finnala.com</span></a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This
summer, several FinNALA members will be presenting at FinnFest from June 19 to
23 in Houghton and Hancock, Michigan. FinNALA members who will read from their
published works include <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lillian Lehto,
Lauri Anderson, Steve Lehto, Josef Aukee, Sheila Packa, Jane Piirto, Jerry
Wuori, Gary V. Anderson, Nancy Mattson, Scott Kaukonen, and Beth Virtanen. </b></span></div>
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prose readings, and writing workshops. It is an excellent opportunity to get to
meet your favorite Finnish-American writers and poets while sampling some of
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a reminder to members and friends of FinNALA that another gathering of the
Finns – FinnFest 2013 – will be taking place in Houghton/Hancock, Michigan on
June 19-23. Upwards of 5000-7000 people will be there, including FinNALA with a
booth in the tori, workshops and readings, a membership meeting, and lots of
fun fellowship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further information can
be found at the FinnFest 2013 website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do consider joining us in this beautiful part of the country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is the link:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://finnfestusa2013.org/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: #336699; font-size: small;">http://finnfestusa2013.org/</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As part of FinnFest 2013 FinNALA will be
hosting two meetings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One will be a
meeting of the Board of Advisors, and the other will be a general membership
meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we are beginning to
compile a list of agenda items for both of those meetings, please feel free to
offer suggestions for things that should be gone into at either of these
meetings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can be sent either to
blvirtanen at gmail dot com, or gkwuori at hotmail dot</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">com.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Michigan, and would like to sell copies of your book(s), then FinNALA has a
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exposure and to make some money. If
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<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Finnish North American Literature Association (FinNALA) is seeking advertisers interested in marketing their merchandise, publications, services, and more to a Finnish-North American literary audience and the community that supports them. We have advertising space available in <i>Kippis!</i> volume 6, Number 1, the FinnFest 2013 edition, which will be for sale at FinnFest 2013 in Houghton/Hancock, Michigan, and available in an online version on the FinNALA website at <a href="http://www.finnala.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">www.finnala.com</span></a>. Ad rates are modest and support the publication and dissemination of literary work by a multicultural and multinational group of poets and writers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Send your print-ready ad copy and contact information to Beth Virtanen, FinNALA President, at bethlvirtanen at yahoo dot com. </span></div>
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Finn</i> is March 6th. </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">We will be publishing on March 21.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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FinNALA President, Beth Virtanen, sent a query for persons interested in
helping with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">FinNALA Newsletter</i>,
Terri Martin expressed a willingness to get involved. Terri is pleased to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: small;">Terri has resided with her husband,
Wayne, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for over twelve years. She finds
inspiration from the north woods for writing and embraces the unembellished
U.P. lifestyle. Her middle-grade children’s book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Family Trait</i>, was published in 1999. She has written humor for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Porcupine Press</i> and several outdoor
articles for various publications, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Backpacker Magazine </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
Michigan Out-of-Doors, </i>and won second place in the third annual <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis!</i> writing contest.</span></div>
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Terri often finds herself immersed in the Finnish-American culture of the
Keweenaw Copper Country. She enjoys coordinating Finlandia’s Sibelius Academy
Music Festival and a Finnish-themed Road Scholar (Elderhostel) program. Terri
completed a master’s degree in English from Northern Michigan University in
spring of 2011, several decades after earning a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal
Studies from Western Michigan University. </span></div>
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future issues with the help of the editorial staff and, most importantly, the
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">The Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) program “Finnish America’s Copper Country and The Sibelius Academy Music Festival” will take place in the Copper Country of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula September 24-28, 2013. It is administered by Road Scholar and hosted by Finlandia University of Hancock, Michigan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Hidden in the scenic Copper Country of
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a flourishing Finnish-American community. Immerse
yourself in the Finnish-American influence of the area through hands-on
workshops, presentations and demonstrations, a field trip to an authentic
Finnish homestead, a mineral museum, an excursion up the Keweenaw Peninsula,
and the spectacular performances of musicians from the world-renowned Sibelius
Music Academy of Helsinki, Finland.</span></div>
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St. Urho’s Celebration is coming to Menahga, Minnesota, March 15 to 17, 2013!
Lots of fun activities will be included in the celebration sponsored by the Menahga
Civic & Commerce Association and other community organizations.</span></div>
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Friday night crowning of the new king and queen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A comedy-singing duo of “Tina and Lena” will entertain
the crowd on Friday evening! Saturday will consist of a parade and other fun
activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Sunday, there will be a
Mojakka Cook-Off Contest with great prizes and a silent auction. All profits
from this event will go to the</span> Menahga Area <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Historical Museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For further information, go to </span></span></span><a href="http://www.menahga.com/"><span style="color: #336699; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">www.menahga.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Knowing
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values of the meat or fish, varied vegetables, and spices we treasure.</span></div>
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brought from Finland the ability to survive on practically nothin’!</span></div>
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with a bunch of sisu, created what’s called “mojakka,” without any fat!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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later, mojakka has survived the test of time, and take heart,</span></div>
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now it has become a St. Urho’s legend contest and a tasty work of art!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Lush Situation</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">K. A. Laity<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">K.
A. Laity is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lush Situation</i></b>, the
second book in her <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chastity Flame </i>trilogy
from Tirgearr Publishing in Ireland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The thriller will be released on March
28, 2013. She will present a workshop "How to Keep Writing with a Full
Time Job" at the Berkshire Festival of Women Writers on March 25, 2013 and
will talk about Writers & Social Media at the Albany (NY) Public Library,
Main Branch on April 10, 2013. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Laity’s satirical essay "How to
Succeed in Academia" will appear in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">So
It Goes: A Tribute to Kurt Vonnegut</i> (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing)
and her academic essay, "Won't Somebody Please Think of the
Children!" on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tideland</i> will
appear in the collection <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Cinema of
Terry Gilliam: It's a Mad World</i> (Wall Flower/Columbia University Press). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ernest Hekkanen<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ernest
Hekkanen’s novel, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heretic Hill</i></b>, will be published in March, 2013. Aki Kyosolamaki,
special correspondent to The New York Times, attempts to keep his friend, Dr.
Sadhar Badhar, from being executed in a primitive, brutal fashion in an Islamic
country.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Send a cheque for $25.00 To New Orphic
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By <b>Stephen Kuusisto<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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published by Copper Canyon Press. Booklist writes: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Kuusisto’s
poems speak to Borges through evocative, otherworldly images: clouds inside
bone marrow, Paracelsus in the streets of New York peddling white flags with
blue crosses, the wet interior of a windowpane. Kuusisto’s affinity for Nordic
countries surfaces here in the form of Helsinki’s sheer blue sky, a topsy-turvy
Finnish waltz, wild grass occupied by orchestral crickets. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sirpa Kaukinen's short book of poetry, <i>Greetings
from Canada - Terveisiä</i> <i>Kanadasta</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">,</span> can be ordered directly from the author for $10.00 at strek at
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Life is an Amazing Song</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a memoir about growing up in Finland during the Finnish-Russian war from 1939 to 1945 and beyond. Described by a reader as“a humorous and serious tale…this book left me wanting for more.” This poignant story describes the experiences of a young boy living at his grandparents’ farm in Oulu, North Finland during the war. A thrilling memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life is an Amazing Song</i> is steeped in the tradition of <i>Angela’s Ashes,</i> <i>My Life as a Dog</i> (Swedish book) with a hint of <i>Tom Sawyer.</i></span><br />
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the break of a new day,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Share
the moments with others</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Before
your time slips away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Love Note</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our
hearts and lives</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Entwined.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Time
floated </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
wisps</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Of
celebration.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
angels danced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Above
the horizon,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Minutes
melted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Into
hours, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hours
into days,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Days
into years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Until—</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Translucent
angels</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Took
you away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Diane
Dettmann’s memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Twenty-Eight Snow
Angels: A Widow’s Story of Love, Loss and Renewal</i>, is her story of how she
found meaning in life after the sudden death of her loving husband. She is also
the coauthor of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Miriam Daughter of
Finnish Immigrants,</i> a story of her Finnish grandparents raising seven
children in Embarrass, Minnesota in the 1920s.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ms.
Dettmann </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is a contributing author for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Women’s Voices for Change</i> website and
has presented her books at various venues including international conferences
in Finland and Canada. Information on website: </span><a href="http://www.outskirtspress.com/snowangels"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.outskirtspress.com/snowangels</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Email
ddettmann at q dot com</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">A Poem by Eero
Sorila<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Ritva My First
Love</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ritva,
a queen of women from Tampere Finland, was my first love.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
were nineteen; the miraculous match seemed to be from above.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After
eight months of dreamlike courtship, I had never held her hand.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
happened on a summer evening, almost too much for me to stand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our
hands touched when from Mt Royal we descended on a day so fine.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
if propelled by supernatural power I was immediately in cloud nine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
was the first time I touched my sweetheart’s tender and delicate hand,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Flirting
of any kind had been locked due to respect with an iron band.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Up
to that time a look into the eyes of Ritva had ignited my soul on fire.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We
were the happiest young people on earth, but all was soon to expire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One
day a lethal intruder, a thief spelled with a big C entered her life.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
queen of women, my first love left this earth as if cut off by knife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">After experiencing first love,
Eero Sorila traveled the world for forty years. His travel adventures are
published in <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Green Mattress under
the Stars.</span></i> Available from Xlibris, telephone: </span><a href="tel:1-888-795-4274" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1-888-795-4274</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> or Amazon.com
ISBN 978-1-4500-6033-5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Three Poems by
Charles Peltosalo</span></u></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Cars Don’t Count</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
ignore humans in their cars,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
ignore humans from my car.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
dare you to try this: you’ll go cross-eyed from the prying cords.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cars
don’t count.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
don’t have relationships with cars.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
deal with people as I cross their paths.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If
I have something to say, I’ll walk up to you;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You’re
welcome to do the same.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It’s
rude to stare either way.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
amount of psychic energy this saves for real life is incalculable.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
darting bluebird dances through a swallowtail kite’s shadow by a bamboo thicket
as you whistle </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> past.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
will not wave at your tinted screen, those safe Ray-bans, as you double the
speed down my peaceful </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> canopy road.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
spent 35 years on a tennis court, not blinking as rubber projectiles flashed
past my ears at 100 mph.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What
are the chances you’ll snag my attention in your speeding metal?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All
hips and shoulders, I’ll note the direction of your front axle;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe
to line up my shot on your rear axle.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">RSVPG-On
my planet, I’d be your speedbump.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
nightvision has flipped on during the day:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At
night one looks down to the right and away to neutralize the blinding glare of
headlights.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">During
the day, I now look either left or right and farther away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The S(c)ent<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Passing
through a village rare in</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dreams
of time gone by,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
wander by a spot most fair,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let
beauty catch my eye.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Flowers
lush, scented deep,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Moss
and grass, each throws of velvet,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Great
trees of ghostly green are rising all around me;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
know I’ve been that place before,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Same
sage old spirits tell me,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe
couldn’t leave, some others say, then</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Show
me an oasis lush sprung from barren fields surrounding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Magic
bloom on magic bloom,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Exotic
smells abounding,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But
I’m transfixed by a forest rose, thicket deep in time.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
circle it in some mind like a redtail loosed its’ keeper’s glove,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Radiate
and spin wingtips’ incline,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ride
its’ perfumed thermal while my sleeper’s body rests,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Before
my spirit reperches in my waking mind, its’ waking nest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All
past love in my small world once centered in a heartbeat there,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Rode
that misty beauty rising from its’ fathomed joy,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Now
a memory burnt by stars, a wish I’d never been,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
trail regrown by time.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
best I’ve kept is a dreamer’s stop, odd nights to and fro.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">More
than once I wander back by love’s first home,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Though
I know she’s flown for good.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Still
her scent is in the air,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
rose grows as it should.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Valentines<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Though
we are now miles apart by some kind reprieve or wise design,</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You’re
still the closest in my heart,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
sweetest, deepest valentine.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Decades
melding souls and minds,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Strange
minuets forever played by some violin’s faint, fickle lines</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Locked
us in this grand life’s dance,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Submerged
us in its’ trying times-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I’m
bound your bonded valentine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Though
wounds and words I’d vain decline in</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pierced
and fevered states of mind,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Death would never edge one inch aside</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Our
seasons’ long and deep entwine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Some
Mystery Hand guides the living lines;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
sharp curve, descent or hopeful climb:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
tragic loss, a sainted find-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
romance deeper than one another’s design did make us truly valentines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Charles Peltosalo, 1455 Bees Creek
Rd., Ridgeland, SC 29936<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Email cgpelt at embarqmail dot com,
tel:(843)-726-6253<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~</span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">A Poem by Anita
Erola<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The Letter</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dear
Lake Oksjärvi</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Do
you still remember me?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
will always remember you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
summer’s first glimpse</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">From
a footpath through the pines</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jewel-like
sparkles beckoned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Diamonds
in the sunlight</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
dance to summer’s midnight light</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brought
a child’s smile delight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
granite slope to water’s edge</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pressed
smooth by ice age past</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Familiar
under my bare feet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
water’s inviting waves</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Soothing
the rocks and shore</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
childhood playground.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At
elders’ words of caution</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
watched each step</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
learned things of nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Swimming,
pretend games, picking blueberries</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Raindrops
on the roof</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
was all there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
small cottage lakeside</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Filled
with grandma and comfort</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
place of belonging.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
recently saw your picture</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Is
that really you?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You
appear tired and old and so untended.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
wish I could be there</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To
care for you</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Both
of us are much older now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Two
Poems by Jane Piirto<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“I
vowed to go about like a cuckoo /to call out on knolls”—Runo 22, Kalevala<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">CEDAR WAXWINGS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On
the office landing</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">coming
up the stairs</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">March
5, I saw</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">through
the tinted window</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
the berry tree</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a
flock of migrating</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">cedar
waxwings having lunch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Inches
from me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">they
took </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">wrinkled
red berries into</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">—Ah!
Their curved beaks—</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">swallowed
them whole</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">with
gulps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
wind roughed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">their
perfect gray</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">short
feathered wings,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tossed
their tufts</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of
crowns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They
tipped</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">thin
branches,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">swayed
to fill</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">their
stomachs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then
they gathered</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
the maple tree,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">flew
off together</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">heading
north to nest</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in
pine forests</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">where
eyes will not violate</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">nor
poems record</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">their
name— </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hope
for Spring.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Be that as it may / I’ve skied a
trail for singers” Runo 50, Kalevala<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">CODA</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Skiing
in a dark forest</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">snow
blowing</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">wind
smarting</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">no
snakes here,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
find Eero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He
is standing </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">beneath
the shed light</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">leaning
on the wall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">His
hair rises in blond curls.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He
can play Metallica</span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
cello</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">like
Apocalyptica.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Skiing
in a dark forest,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">eerie
winds</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">struggling
against snows</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">no
snakes here</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in
the north when</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
darkness comes at three.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Boy from Karelia</span></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Kaarina
Brooks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Excerpt from
Chapter 1)</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Beginning of
the End<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Don’t get those wood chips all over the
floor, Juha!” Mom keeps nagging at me, though she can see I’m not making a
mess. Most of the chips fall on the sheet metal by the stove. I like sitting
here, whittling by the fire when it’s chilly and wet outside. Like today.
Though it’s only four o’clock, the sun has almost set.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There’s not much to do on a rainy
Sunday. I can’t go and play with my friend, Tuomo. And I can’t climb up on our
roof and see the golden, onion-shaped domes of the Vellamo Convent on a faraway
island in Lake Ladoga. </span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> I’ve done my homework. I even
helped Liisa with hers. She’s seven and just started grade one, but I'm in
grade three. I'm good in school, because I </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">work
hard. I don’t want to stand there and look dumb when the teacher asks me a
question.</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> So here I am, whittling and
trying to ignore Mom, when I hear heavy stomping and wheezing out in the porch.
I know that’s old Matias dropping by, because he always makes that noise. He’s
over eighty, and people say he spends all his days studying the Bible. He can
say the whole thing by heart, like me and the times tables. </span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> “Come on in, Matias,” Dad says
and gets out of his rocking chair. He knows Matias likes to sit in the rocker,
so he moves over to the long wooden bench by the table. Dad lights his pipe and
Mom puts the pot-bellied copper coffee pot on the stove. </span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Matias places his worn fur hat on
his knee and starts the rocker with a kick. "Listen here, Pekka,” he says.
"I was readin' in the Bible that the Devil is gonna let loose all his
powers in these here parts, and we’ll have to leave our lands. And that time is
almost nigh.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> “Well, Matias, I think you’re
just talking through your hat,” Dad says with a grin. He likes to tease the old
man. “You know the Bible isn’t always right.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> But Matias doesn’t get mad. “You
don’t have to believe me, Pekka, but when it all comes to pass, remember me
sayin' so.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Just
then the door opens and in comes my uncle Otto. He’s the police chief in our
parish of Impilahti, and lives in a village closer to the Russian border. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“So, what’s new?” he asks and sits on a
bench by the wall. Mom puts another coffee cup and saucer on the table. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> “Well,
Otto,” Dad<i> </i>says with a grin. “Matias here was telling us that Old Nick's
going to let loose all his powers, and destroy everything around here.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To my surprise, Uncle Otto doesn’t
laugh. “You know,” he says with a couple of nods. “They’ve started putting up
tank barricades over there in Kitelä. Digging up huge rocks and rolling them
onto the fields.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Boy from Karelia</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is a middle-grade historical fiction novel (60,500
words)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by Kaarina Brooks. It is based on
the boyhood memories (1939-1945) of the late Vaino Johannes Leskinen of
Vancouver, BC. The book is still in the submission phase and thus not yet
available. Brooks dot kaarina at gmail dot com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My Crafty Finnish Mummu</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Hazel Lauttamus Birt<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My Finnish Gramma was a crafter.
Mummu did all kinds of crafts like weaving and spinning wool but her favourite
was knitting. I mean she knit all the time. She would go walking and knitting
to the neighbouring farm looking at the clouds, checking the wild flowers,
listening to the birds. One day this habit nearly brought her to harm. She came
walking and knitting right through the open kitchen door. We heard a big ‘thump’
then Mummu’s angry voice: “Who left the cellar trap door open again?” Oh, my
God, we all rushed to look down. There she was standing at the bottom of the
shallow dug out with her knitting in her hands. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She had everyone knitting. When
Neighbor women came over for coffee Mummu would say, “You might as well be
knitting as just sitting there,” and she would pass around some knitting. She
taught all us children to knit. I remember being this little kid missing all my
first teeth and sitting in my little rocker beside Mummu knitting away. The
family would smile and say, “There’s our two Mummus knitting.” I’d be chatting
to her and she didn’t answer. I looked up and she seemed to be sleeping but she
still knitted away.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I turned out to be an art teacher
and craftsperson too. Mummu once helped me make an Easter banner for a church
in the Arctic. It was to be blue Inuit Slavic lettering on white, six feet
wide, saying <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hallelujah, Christ is risen</i>.
So we cut and we pasted. I was proud to show it to Moses, my Inuit friend, who
said, “Hazel, it doesn’t say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hallelujah,
Christ is risen</i>. You have the last symbol upside down. It says <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hallelujah Christ is dead</i>.” Like oops -
we had to fix it before we mailed it up to the Arctic.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When my children were small, we
arrived at the farm one cold day and I asked Mummu if she had any spare
mitts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mummu got up and said “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">tullka lapset</i> (come children)”. She
showed us a drawer full of mitts—at least fifty pairs—all with “idiot Strings”
attached so they wouldn’t be lost. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I taught all my family to knit and
do crafts. My granddaughter Anna took to finger knitting, making long colourful
ropes. She was like Mummu; she knit all the time. She and I would sit knitting
side by side and we’d plan what she could do with all her long colourful ropes.
“I know!” she’d say. “For my sister Kirsten’s birthday, let’s decorate the
house with streamers! Hang them from the ceiling! And Kissa our cat needs a new
collar. And I know, I won’t get lost in the park anymore. I’ll take my finger
knitting and leave a long trail of it so I can find my way back.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have no doubt that crafting in my
family will continue. Especially Anna will grow up to teach her children and
grand children to be crafty like our Finnish Mummu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hazel Lauttamus Birt grew up on her
grandfather's homestead in New Finland, Saskatchewan. She has written and
illustrated a number of books based on her Finnish</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She lives in Winnipeg. </span><a href="mailto:hgbirt@shaw.ca"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">hgbirt at shaw dot ca</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two Poems by K. Alma
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Revision</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Nothing precise about the flight </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">egrets make, coming into view right </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">or left, dangling legs, deciding </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">at the last moment where to land.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Silent as their snowy show </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">leaves the estuary, an erasure </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">of a page trying to capture perfectly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">the time-lapse details --- denser </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">grass, sunrise earlier by a minute,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">my eyes adjusting to new familiars. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Fledgling</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Already fearful of irrelevance,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">the new bird, possessing every feather,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">stands firmly on the thick book of days</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">that will define its significance </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">as news or newsprint fit only to shred</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">and fill the coop. Flying by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">is no accomplishment, easier </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">so many say, older now than family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">pianos. Trembling between low</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">and lower notes plucks time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">like it was meant to beam. Blown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">down soft to the lips last to speak</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">coldly of the wasted year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: xx-small; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><u>Two Poems by Arlene Sundquist Empie</u></span></div>
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From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Love Is A Place</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">: A collection of poetry</span></div>
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Spring Breaks</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">stark whiteness reaches to the horizon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">like a girl in a white gown arising</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">stretching after a long sleep</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">breaking the silence of winter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">angular patterns of cracking ice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">wild as the imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Spring’s Song</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Spring’s
song opens the mind to possibilities </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">swallows
return to rebuild their nest in a flurry of activity </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tractors
ply the fields turning over fallow soil </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">preparing
for new life to come forth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Released
from the long winter rainshadow, my mind jazz </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dances
to places charted on my journey, places yet to know,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">signposts
to follow. The fork in the path beckons like the rock </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
the beach with the perfect circle calls to be picked up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Places
summon in my dreams, places co-created in the divine plan await chance and
synchronicity. Love, the highest energy of all, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">surrounds
me like swirling water in a whirlpool, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">spilling
over me like a waterfall, yet I cannot quench my thirst.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sun
thoughts wander amidst stones and pine needles, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">silken
sea grass and thorny blackberry vines, sensing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
pull of the moon, the incoming and outgoing tides </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ever
seeking —one more undiscovered place of the heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Email: Sunnie1 at me dot com</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Brasilia: Capital Nonpareil!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Lisbeth Holt</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who
hasn’t envisioned Brazil as the counterweight to conformity and
convention?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an undeniable
seductiveness at the very mention of this land, as vast in landmass as the
continental United States!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And here in
its mysterious interior, travelers discover a realm of astonishing beauty in
the capital nonpareil, Brasilia!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the history buff, the architecture aficionado, this World Heritage site is a
perfect fit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brasilia evolved from a dream of sheer
bravado, that of building a city unlike any other on earth here in the
wilderness, empty of all human life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
idea of a centrally-located capital which would open up the interior to
economic prosperity and protect it from coastal invasion had been considered
for over a century by politicians and clergy alike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, the Italian bishop Dom Bosco had a
sublime vision in 1883 of a “land of milk and honey” to rise between the 15<sup>th</sup>
and 20<sup>th</sup> parallels in the New World.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fertile ideas of such a fabulous city began to germinate within the
national consciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Presidential
candidate Juscelino Kubitschek promised to fulfill this dream if he won.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became president, and the rest is
history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brasilia was inaugurated as the
new capital on April 21, 1960, some 700 miles northwest of Rio in the
geographical center of this immense country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
you step foot in Brasilia, it’s unlike anything you’d imagined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s more stunning, more dramatic, more
out-of-this-world!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You ask yourself, is
this city of visionaries real or a mirage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The iconic architecture unabashedly rises to meet the bluest and widest
of skies in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of these
monumental buildings were designed by that irrepressible genius of twentieth
century architecture, Oscar Niemeyer (1907 – 2012).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The famous dragonfly design of the city,
the brainchild of the ingenious urban planner Lucio Costa, set the stage for
breath-taking architecture and art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oscar Niemeyer’s Metropolitan Cathedral had no precedent in its bold
design of sixteen curving panels of white concrete like a colossal flower of
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gorgeous stained glass panels
designed by Marianne Peretti flood the interior with celestial light and
Alfredo Ceschiatti’s three angels of the Annunciation hover seemingly in
adoration over the altar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Here you find the brilliantly conceived
convex-concave National Congress and the grand Plaza of the Three Powers. The
25-foot sculpture by Bruno Georgi, the Pioneers/Warriors (“Os Candangos”),
commemorates the heroic spirit of those tens of thousands of workers who built
this singular city in forty-one months!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The glass-enclosed Itamaraty Palace (the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs), the very epitome of grace, seems to be floating
in a pool with water gardens designed by Roberto Burle Marx and the enigmatic
“Meteor” sculpture by Bruno Georgi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Within, exquisite sculptures, paintings and gardens designed by the
luminaries of the arts enchant the eye at every turn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second floor boasts regal dining rooms
representing the three capitals: Salvador (until 1763), Rio de Janeiro (until
1960) and now Brasilia, the most architecturally amazing city in the world!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">BRASILIA !</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By Lisbeth Holt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Born
from a near impossible dream,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brasilia!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Provocative, evocative,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This
miraculous flower of destiny, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Freeing
the creative spirits of fearless artists,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Capturing
the imagination of sweat-soaked workers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who
arrived to build the city of cities </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
the middle of nowhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nowhere?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not a chance!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Envisioned
in 1883 by saint Dom Bosco in Italy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
dawn of a new civilization near the 15th parallel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
the Americas…Is that nowhere?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
the state of Goias where a massive layer of crystal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yes!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crystal covers the earth with its luminosity;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Goias,
on the same parallel as western-lying Machu Picchu!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On
a gorgeous broad, oh so wide and sweeping, cerrado;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
savannah of exotics, flora, fauna, canyons, waterfalls,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
highlands welcoming the visionaries!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kubitschek,
the president!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Costa of the winged city
plan!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Niemeyer, the architect:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>soaring curves to meet the sky!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Burle
Marx: brilliant gardens delight the eye!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
destined to create beauty to live forever:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ceschiatti,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peretti, Di Cavalcanti, Bulcao, Georgi;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each
glorifying, magnifying, ever defying the naysayers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Who
believed this dream an impossibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fifty
years have passed since inauguration day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This
city, this incomprehensibly magnificent city,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brasilia,
stands, welcoming the world to come and see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To
partake of the dream, to celebrate humanity’s possibilities;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
new dawn of civilization, indeed, here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In
Brasilia!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~</span></b></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Two Poems by
Michael L. King<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Lao
Lao</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
only met my mother’s mother once;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">she
came to visit us in Heilongjiang</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">when
I was very young.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad said she </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">could
stay with us—and do some work—because </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that
way my mom would never leave to care</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for
her when she got old.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our village got </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">too
cold for her in winter, though, so she </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">went
back to Shandong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, her sons that
lived</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">there
never helped her when she got so sick </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">she
had to stay in bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She couldn’t walk </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">or
cook or even go to toilet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">went
there and cried when she saw Lao Lao’s bed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">so
nasty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lao Laos hair was all flat,
stuck </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mom stayed there with her three weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">While
Mom was gone my Dad got mad because </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">he
had to care for four kids, cook, and clean</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
house all by himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Mom got back </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">he
yelled and swore at her so loud the whole </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">countryside
heard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About two days before <br />
my mom came home we heard that Lao Lao died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Vanishing
Point Wrap<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Equations,
figures, conflicts, rule this time</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To find relief, I ride my bike</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
trails that wind through woods where light and dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">shadows
play on boulders, rotting logs, and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ferns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stop by fields to watch as kestrels</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">hover
over hay and dive-bomb down on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">mice
while woodchucks dig and watch from burrows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Deer
like swamps; they lift their tails and look, and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">stomp
their hoofs and snort, then bolt for cover</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">under
evergreens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I read the scenes and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">see
signs in great diverse designs that greet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">my
senses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thoughts and visions pedal far </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
ride where trails that run parallel meet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and
wrap together, past the world of math.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">A Poem by
Kirsten Dierking<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">IN EARLY EVENING</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Everything</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">around
the lake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">assents
to silence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All
birds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">agreed
to hush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All
feathers, all fur,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">felted
thick</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">with
fading light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
boat comes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to
a gentle rest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on
the blue cusp </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of
still water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Take
it with you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">this
interlude,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the
sweet middle eye</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of
the storm.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Yooper Guide to Fine Dining</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Yooper
cuisine has two claims to fame: Friday Fish Fry and the Pasty (rhymes with
nasty). It used to be that Catholics couldn’t eat meat on Friday, so <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">everyone</i> ate fish or tomato soup or
macaroni and cheese, even if they were Lutheran. However, some time in the last
millennium, the Vatican rescinded the no-meat-on-Friday mandate. However, up
here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, restaurateurs did not get the memo, so they
continue to offer up a gut bomb called the Friday Night Fish Fry—a practice
that really revs up during Lent. I’m pretty sure the sacrifice of meat on
Friday was not meant to be substituted with something that is deep fried and
served with tartar sauce, fries, slaw, and a couple of beers. Still, it’s a
good tradition, eh? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The pasty started back in the days
when there was no cafeteria or vending machines down in the copper mines.
Immigrant miners worked long hours under difficult conditions and needed
something that would stick to their ribs. The Cornish people invented a dandy
little potpie that involved a lard-based crust, meat, veggies and the much-misunderstood
rutabaga. More recently, ketchup became the condiment of choice for enhancing
the pasty. (Note: there are no Cornish hens harmed in the making of a pasty.)
So anyway, the miners carried their pasty pie down into the cold, damp bowels
of the mineshaft to enjoy during their dinner breaks. The famed U.P. pasty
endures to this day and is served up with ketchup and a side of slaw. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Newsletter </i>editorial team. Our editor-in-chief will serve in an advisory
capacity and exercise final editorial control with our new managing editor,
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controlling the content and layout of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newsletter</i>
as well as establishing editorial policy. Our continuing assistant editor,
Sirpa Kaukinen, and our new blog specialist, Heather Dunne, will bring
specialized expertise to the endeavor. The team is thus:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FinNALA
is an organization of writers and lovers of literature who share a belief that
the literary culture of Finland is something worth highlighting and preserving,
whether the focus is on past and present Finnish writers, or on writers based
largely in North America who are of Finnish descent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FinNALA is an inclusive organization
open to anyone who writes or reads and who enjoys the uniqueness of the Finnish
experience.</span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FinNALA
works to define the depth, breadth, and contours of Finnish North American
Literature from its inception in the late nineteenth century to the present.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FinNALA
publishes the literary journal, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis, </i>to
help promote and publicize writers of all persuasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its content favors, but is not limited to,
the membership of FinNALA.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FinNALA
publishes a periodic newsletter, the purpose of which is to provide information
to the membership, and to provide an outlet for the creative efforts of its
members.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FinNALA
hosts a Facebook page open to members who wish to share information with the
membership, as well as promote their own work in other areas.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FinNALA,
as an important cultural bridge in international literature, makes every effort
to be represented at various Finnish festivals and events.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FinNALA
works to establish both personal and publication links between its North
American membership and interested parties in Finland.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b>President of Finger Lakes Finns Steps Down</b> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After three years of service, Lisa
daCunha-Koski has stepped down as President of the Finger Lakes Finns. She will
retain a position on the newsletter editorial board and chair the scholarships
awards committee. In addition, Lisa will serve as producer for the annual Quiz Program.
Last year, Lisa's poem, "Old Barns" was read on National Public
Radio. This past year, NPR archived her poem, "The House With No One In
It," on their </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">website. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Performer of the Year</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(PASADENA,
California – November 30, 2012) – Finlandia Foundation National (FFN), the
premier network of Finnish-American organizations in the United States, has
named Yvonne Lockwood of Southeast Michigan as its Lecturer of the Year for
2013. The former curator of folk life at the Michigan State University Museum
and author of the book <i>Finnish American Rag Rugs: Art, Tradition, &
Ethnic Continuity</i> will appear at events organized by FFN chapters across
the country to encourage appreciation of Finnish and Finnish-American talent,
culture and traditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lockwood presents her findings on the
history and traditions of handcrafted goods, skills and practices of her
Finnish-American heritage. She talks about elements of the material
culture---the weaving, woodworking, foods and other objects made by hand---and
their role in Finnish-America. She examines why some traditions survive while
others are lost and, occasionally, are revived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FFN also named Marja Kaisla, a pianist
who was born in Finland and now lives in Philadelphia as its Performer of the
Year. In addition to her solo piano performances she appears with the chamber
music ensemble Trio Excelsior! The musician is also involved in planning the
375<sup>th</sup> anniversary celebration of the arrival of Finnish and Swedish
immigrants in the Delaware Valley.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> About Finlandia
Foundation National </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finlandia Foundation National is the
premier network of Finnish-American organizations in the United States. Founded
in Pasadena, California in 1953, it administers grants, scholarships and
programs supporting and celebrating Finnish heritage and Finnish-American
culture and traditions. For more information about the 501 (c) (3)
organization: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;"><a href="http://www.finlandiafoundation.org/" target="_blank">http://www.finlandiafoundation.org/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finlandia
Foundation National</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">P.O.
Box 92298, Pasadena, California 91109-2298, United States</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Phone:
</span><a href="tel:%28626%29%20795-2081" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">(626) 795-2081</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Email:
</span><a href="mailto:office@finlandiafoundation.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">office@finlandiafoundation.org</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fifth Annual <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis!
</i>Contest is open!<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<span class="text"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Submissions are being accepted for</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span class="text"><b><i>Kippis! 6:1</i></b></span><br />
</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Published online and in
the FinnFest 2013 Edition of <i>Kippis!</i></span></b><span style="color: #990099; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Paper copies of this issue will be
available in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tori</i> at the FinNALA
booth. Send regular submissions by email to Associate Editor G.K. Wuori: gkwuori at hotmail dot com<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Submission Guidelines:</span></span><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Entry fee: $20. Pay by
PayPal <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">or</span> mail your check (20 US
dollars) made out to "FinNALA" to Beth Virtanen, President, FinNALA,
PO Box 11, New Blaine, AR 72851.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prizes: First place
$100, Second place $50; Third place $25</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1st, 2nd, & 3rd
place winners receive 5 paper copies of V. 6, No. 1 issue</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Submission deadline:
April 1, 2013</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Genres accepted:
fiction, nonfiction, poetry</span></div>
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required. Submit to gkwuori at hotmail dot com</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Authors – Sell Your Book(s) at FinnFest 2013!</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you’re going to be at FinnFest 2013 in Houghton/Hancock,
Michigan, and would like to sell copies of your book(s), then FinNALA has a
great opportunity for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For a modest $20.00
(U.S.) fee, FinNALA will:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Display your book on its
table in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tori </i>for the duration of
FinnFest,</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep a small reserve
supply to replace sold books,</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep an accounting of
the books sold so that sales monies can be given to each participating author,</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep you from having to
pay the $300 fee to rent and staff your own sale table,</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Staff the FinNALA table
during all regular <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tori</i> hours of the
FinnFest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We think this will be a great opportunity for our authors to gain
exposure and to make some money. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you’re interested in participating please contact Beth Virtanen as soon as
possible at blvirtanen at gmail dot com. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) program “Finnish America’s
Copper Country and The Sibelius Academy Music Festival” will take place in the
Copper Country of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula’s September 24-28, 2013. It is a</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dministered by
Road Scholar and hosted by Finlandia University of Hancock, Michigan.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hidden in the scenic Copper Country of
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a flourishing Finnish-American community. Immerse
yourself in the Finnish-American influence of the area through hands-on
workshops, presentations and demonstrations, a field trip to an authentic
Finnish homestead, a mineral museum, an excursion up the Keweenaw Peninsula, and
the spectacular performances of musicians from the world-renowned Sibelius
Music Academy of Helsinki, Finland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For more information visit the Road
Scholar web site </span><a href="http://www.roadscholar.com/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">www.roadscholar.com</span></span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> and enter
program # 20651RJH, or call Road Scholar at 1-800-454-5768.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">15<sup>th</sup> Annual Sibelius Academy Music
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dates have been set for The Sibelius
Academy Music Festival, which is sponsored by Finlandia University. Festival dates
are September 22-27, 2013 and will feature classical and folk musicians from
the esteemed Sibelius Academy of Helsinki, Finland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Concerts will take place at the Estonian
House near Chicago, Illinois, the historic Calumet Theatre of Calumet,
Michigan, and locations in Hancock, Michigan. Finalization of concerts and
other related events will be available early in 2013, and will be posted on the
Finlandia University website </span><a href="http://www.finlandia.edu/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #336699;">www.finlandia.edu</span></span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more information contact the festival
coordinator at terri dot martin at Finlandia dot edu or call 906-487-7512. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">By <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sirpa T. Kaukinen<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Kanadan-Suomalaisia
Runoja<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sirpa Kaukinen's short book of poetry, <i>Greetings
from Canada - Terveisiä</i> <i>Kanadasta</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">,</span> can be ordered directly from the author for $10.00 at strek at
rogers dot com. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Waino
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Finn, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">by Waino “Bill”
Korpela and edited by Ernest Korpela, is now available. The work is a
collection of pieces written by the author throughout his lifetime. It includes
poetry and prose works that reflect his Finnish sensibility. Within the covers
are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Song of Suomi</i>, an extended poem
that shares the history of Finland. Accompanying this poem are detailed
historical notes. In addition the book contains a critical article regarding
the different linguistic and genetic roots of the Finnish people, a lively folk
narrative regarding the origin of St. Urho, and occasional poems. It is the
culmination of Waino Korpela’s intellectual and literary life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">If
you identify with the struggles of the Finnish and other dominated people over
the centuries— their “sisu” and drive for independence, “Song of Suomi” is an
easy but excellent read backed up by factual notations.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Want
to know about the St. Urho Legend? </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Interested
in the origins of the Finnish Language? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
work, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finn</i>, is a collection of
writings by Waino W. Korpela which embodies a host of perceptions of his
father’s native land-its people, its history, its <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sisu</i>, its culture, its struggle for self-determination and its
perspective on life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Ernest Korpela,
Editor</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Waino
Korpela is a fine writer. His work brings the spirit of the Finns to life as he
shares his experiences as a Finnish-American and as a researcher and poet. His
poetry is grounded in the traditional verse of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kalevala</i>, and he makes<span style="color: black;"> available</span>
in his work the sources that influence his writing. </span><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Beth L. Virtanen, Ph.D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> President, FinNALA Editor, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">!<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Email
the editor at korpela at cheqnet dot net, call 715 742-3349 or 906 663-4862, or
write to Ernest Korpela, PO Box 273, Cornucopia, WI 54827 or Liola Korpela, PO
Box 163, Ramsay, MI 49959 to order your copy today. The cost is $24.95
(hardcover) or $14.95 (softcover), plus tax and shipping. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John (Juha) Raikkonen</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Life is an Amazing Song,</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a memoir about growing up in Finland during the
Finnish-Russian war from 1939 to 1945 and beyond. Described by a reader as “a
humorous and serious tale…this book left me wanting for more.” This poignant
story describes the experiences of a young boy living at his grandparents’ farm
in Oulu, North Finland during the war. A thrilling memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Life is an Amazing Song</i> is steeped in the tradition of <i>Angela’s
Ashes,</i> <i>My Life as a Dog</i> (Swedish book) with a hint of <i>Tom Sawyer.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For more information, </span><a href="http://www.lifesamazingsong.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #336699;">www.LifesAmazingSong.com</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> . </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISBN: 1453735100 300
pages. <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rated five stars in the National
Press. Edited by: Mike Valentino Reviewed by: Jean Purcell Siggy Buckley Laila
Sullivan and others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Creative Contributions<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Three Photographs</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br /></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yQUL61RFWMg/UMn0CJ87c6I/AAAAAAAAADY/ownYhKQmN9Y/s1600/canada.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yQUL61RFWMg/UMn0CJ87c6I/AAAAAAAAADY/ownYhKQmN9Y/s320/canada.jpg" height="320" width="241" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Text and photo
by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eero Sorila</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It
felt as if three black and white photographs descended from the wall and landed
in my heart to stay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One was of Niagara Falls embraced by frost
and icicles in mid winter. The second was of a deer’s head in which the sharply
focused eye engaged one in a visual dialogue. The third was of a rowboat
hugging a small dock and tossing reflections into a lake of utmost stillness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This visual impact took place in 1958 at
the home of a Finnish photographer Matti Petäinen in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After fifty years, I can still see the
three photographs vividly with the eye of my soul. Hands up, I was hooked into
photography for life, but without a camera.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Four years after seeing the three
photographs I was a high school student in Montreal, in need of a camera. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would get up at five every morning
before school to deliver eighty Montreal Gazette newspapers. Fortunately, I had
been initiated into the 30 degree minus winters in Finland during my childhood.
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earnings from the paper route, about five
dollars a week in 1962, enabled me after many months of saving to buy my first
camera. It was an East German Exa, single lens reflex camera. I was proud of my
new possession but did not know anything about photography. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fast forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1970 I opened my own photographic studio
in Vancouver, BC. I used a Hasselblad as my “work horse” a Swedish made medium
format camera. Eventually I purchased a USA made large format Crown Graflex camera
and specialized in landscape photography. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within thirty years, using sheet film, I
photographed every province and territory of Canada. It was easy to put up with
freezing temperatures, thunder storms and scorching heat when driven by
challenges and inner contentment. To wait for the right quality of light, took
hours or even days at times, but it was all worth it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Selected images of the ten provinces and
three territories have just been published in the USA into a photo book; <i>CANADA,
A Photographic Gallery of a Great Nation</i>. ISBN 978-1-4771-3693-5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With stunning photographs accompanied by
informative captions, the book is an ideal gift, an asset in every home.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all started with three photographs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A poem b</span><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">y <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sirpa T. Kaukinen</b> </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-mirror-indents: yes; text-align: center;">
<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Greetings from Canada<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">An Important Word <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">I’ve been looking for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">viliparu</i>
a long time. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">What could it be?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">An important word like that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Then I hear a neighbor say:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Put the wood in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">viliparu</i>” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And I see a wheelbarrow is <i>viliparu </i></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">in Finglish.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Like the wheel in history,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Important like I knew it would be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Two poems by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">M. L. King</b><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Changjiang Delta</i><br />
12/2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Sidecar
</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Outside a rec hall dance<br />
in Devon, a Brit invites this Yankee <br />
sailor in a Harley hat to drink</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">homemade rum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My hangover clears <br />
in winter air whipped by a Triumph’s <br />
rush through roads carved </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">into moors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an enclosed double-<br />
seater sidecar rocks my new <br />
friend’s wife and three daughters— </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">five, seven, and nine—café <br />
racers wheelie past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After <br />
kilometers, harried, the Scottish mom </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">punches Plexiglas; I’m obliged.<br />
Better than a tilt-a-whirl, the sidecar <br />
bucks while English uplands scroll </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">across windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The girls clamber <br />
front to back, climb their guest<br />
in a joyful rumble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a barn converted </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to a pub, we eat pasties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drink <br />
Guinness, then sleep beneath a quilt <br />
of kids when we cycle into dusk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">East College
Drop</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(Harbin,
Heilongjiang 2007)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She
steals two thousand kwai for love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Expelled<br />
when caught, she jumps from six floors up to end <br />
her shame.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her boyfriend’s tears dilute
the blood <br />
that stains her face, mangled on a sidewalk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">No
sirens wail as campus gossip spreads.<br />
“That girl’s poor parents would have beaten her.<br />
She make our college look bad; no one trust<br />
it now,” my spoken English classroom says.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Two poems by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arlene Sundquist Empie</b> from </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Love Is A Place: A collection of poetry</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ISBN
9781931025096. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love Is A Place</i> was
honored as Winner, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">General Poetry category, The 2012 USA Best Book Awards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Winter White Jul<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Outside . . . </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">ice on the pond </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">frost on the steps</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">snow on the path </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">trees draped in white</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">fog hovers </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">breath escapes </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">into whiteness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Inside . . . </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">white clapboard house</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">bland and blond </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">food and family</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">jul table like </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">snow white landscape </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">white damask cloth </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">lutfisk, white sauce</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">sprinkled with allspice </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">white potato flour lefse </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">white boiled russets</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">pickled herring.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">Ice crystals slide down </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-language: EN-US;">warm kitchen window.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Winter Solstice
Symphony<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
harmonic composition of</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ice
crystals earthbound </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">melding
together into</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">snowflakes
gently </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">falling,
drifting</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">disguise,
soothe</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">anxious
thoughts </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">like
snow covers </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">earth
blemishes </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">palpable
calmness </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">permeates
crisp air. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">No
need to guard solitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 1.5in 10pt 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">~~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Two poems by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Charles Peltosalo</b></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Originally
written in the 1980s and revised 3 Jun 2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Otter Pond</span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Otter
shrine knelt in pond prayer;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Immigrant
Japanese canoe-slide caretakers, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brackish
sidereal Chesapeake ice-skaters,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visit
frozen spirit.</span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oaks
old as Indians dead stand the daybreak watch,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Primal
bass survives, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Curves
through Shinto scrags,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Scoffs
lure-snagged wood.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fade-away
fins disappear in green-spring depths,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Circumnavigate
sleeping </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Winter
turtle dens</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That
support our planet on their diatomic shells,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2-headed
deep in the leaf-scattered sand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lord
Heron blasts blue wings;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Delicate
surge of brute flight by canoe slides spirit-ridden,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Circles
sunken temple.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Royal
feathers alight regal, dexterous, awesome</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">On
fallen trees bent reverently to</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
sleeping otter’s aqueous dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Sailing the
Geologic Sea<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Give
me a high plains sage, rolling a dusty green</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Up
and over a mountain range, sailing the geologic sea.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let
me ride the sandstone waves and</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Toss
and glide on the rubbly red scree;</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Send
me off where the canyons wind</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Through
granite boulders’ company.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Like
high desert fox in the breaks and draws</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dance
in and vanish without a trace,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Give
me the golden’s wings to disappear on</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Summer
winds above the prairie’s face.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Grant
me the hooves and the paws of the desert elite,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Antelope
and coyotes’ muscly feet,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
hawk’s sharp claws on the juniper’s branch,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
lizard’s horizon-long cactus retreat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Send
me away under warm Summer moons,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let
my spirit ride broad rolling silver-lit dunes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Jagged
heights of far ranges to a soul hold o mystery</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That
my far-roving mind cast adrift surely won’t see.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Let
the wide open plains forever beckon me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Far
from the shores of the crowding society,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">With
badger and eagle and mule deer please reckon me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Gone
sailing the geologic sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~~</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Two poems by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gary Anderson</b></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bunchgrass and Buttercups<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Onkalo</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> (Finnish for
hiding place)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Return to a place </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">once lived</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">find</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span class="apple-style-span">something </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">once lost.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Hold undamaged</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">parts of soul and self</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as dew settles</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on lowlands.</span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Go to a cedar stump,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">burned hollow,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pull the sword fern</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">door closed,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">dig for childish artifacts </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">buried there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Touch flat rocks</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from fast water,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">skyfixer</i>,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">say<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">
dreamstream</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Cry, finally cry,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">for the boy.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
</div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Dividing the
Farm <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You
take fences, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">tilled
fields, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">straight
lines, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">square
corners </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of
forty. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Give
me </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">meander
of </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">stream,
bank of </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">cattails,
willow. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You
take tree farm,<br />
clear cut.<br />
Give me<br />
tangle of swamp,<br />
knoll above marsh where </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">salt
meets fresh, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">vernal
pond where </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">salamanders
arrive<br />
one spring night from </span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">down
under woody debris. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">~~</span></div>
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Two Yooper Shorts by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Terri Martin</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Passing Lane<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.)
does not have many four-lane roads. It is a well-known fact that Yoopers (those
from the U.P.) drive at two speeds: very fast and very slow. It is inevitable
that the Very Fast will find themselves positioned behind the Very Slow. U.P.
traffic engineers, in all their wisdom, have found a solution: The Passing
Lane. This is when your one lane briefly turns into two, thus, theoretically,
enabling the Very Fast to zoom past the Very Slow. Except for some unknown
reason, this is when the Very Slow experiment with becoming the Very Fast. This
allows the Temporarily Very Fast and the Steadfastly Very Fast (now foaming
noticeably at the mouth) to engage in an exciting game of chicken to see who
will pull back before the two lanes merge back into one at which time the
Temporarily Very Fast, who inevitably wins the game of chicken, will retract
into his comfort zone and once again become the Very Slow. </span></div>
<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Women’s Work</span></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The male Yooper’s motto: “that’s
women’s work” applies to everything except activities involving a chain saw, a
gun, a knife, a fishhook, or a giant-screen television. Yooper men would never
dream of making their spouse (who is often referred to as “the wife”) engage in
something so feral as “dressing out” a deer. No, her job is to work one or two
jobs, keep up the house, raise the children, take care of his elderly parents,
and occasionally throw on something sexy, like a camouflage thong, to make him
feel like a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">man</i>. A Yooper man would
rather be hunched on an ice floe bearing the brunt of a frigid north wind than
be roped into doing women’s work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">FinNALA
Newsletter </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Editorial
Team:</span></div>
<br />
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Terri Martin, Managing Editor</span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sirpa Kaukinen, Assistant Editor</span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Heather Dunne, Blog Specialist</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Beth L. Virtanen, Editor-in-Chief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
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American Literature Association</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.finnala.com/">www.finnala.com</a> <span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FinNALA Reading and
Writing Workshop Series at FinnFest 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FinNALA is hosting a reading and writing workshop series at FinnFest 2013
in Hancock/Houghton, MI. If you want to participate in it, please copy the form
below, fill it out and send it in an email to bethlvirtanen at yahoo.com. FinNALA
President </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beth Virtanen will
forward our proposals as a group to the selection committee at FinnFest. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Presentations will last for 50 minutes.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Changes
On The Way<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">FinNALA
is currently undergoing a major self-examination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the past several months the
administrative team has raised a number of questions and concerns about the
future of the organization and how well-equipped we are to maintain our
structure and purpose in a fiercely-changing world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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major changes can be reported to the membership at the present time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">First,
the Board of Advisors has been restructured and enlarged to provide for a more
diverse range of ideas and opinions with respect to FinNALA’s activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While a number of former Advisors have agreed
to remain on the Board, they have been joined by some new faces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The
new Board of Advisors consists of:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beth
Virtanen (President of FinNALA), G. K. Wuori (vice-president of FinNALA),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Stotesbury, Fran Wiidman, Lauri
Anderson, Ernest Hekkanen, Josef Aukee, Kaarina Brooks, Stephen Kuusisto, Raija
Taramaa, Kate Laity, and Marianne Wargelin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Second,
the new Board of Advisors is already hard at work restructuring the FinNALA Mission
Statement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there was nothing wrong
with the old statement, it was basically a bit too lean and simply did not
cover some things we’ve been doing that we do, indeed, think we ought to be
doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The time table right now is for a
draft of a new statement to be presented to the Board for their comments and
amendments, with a final draft ultimately to be presented to the Board for a
vote.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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note that we are small enough that we welcome comments from anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The old mission statement is still on the
FinNALA website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feel free to take a
look at it and don’t hesitate to send any suggestions or ideas for the mission
statement to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">gkwuori at hotmail dot com.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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A. Laity</strong> has had a flurry of publications this quarter: <i>Chastity Flame</i>,
her sexy spy thriller novel and her dark fiction short story collection <i>Unquiet
Dreams</i>, both from Tirgearr Publishing. Her alternative history/speculative
fiction novel <i>Owl Stretching</i> is out from Immanion Press and she has
edited an anthology <i>Weird Noir</i> for Fox Spirit Books. See the complete
list of new publications at <a href="http://www.kalaity.com/" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts"><span style="color: blue;"><span id="lw_1351619498_0">www.kalaity.com</span></span></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has a new book, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Flesh and Spirit:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Rasputin
Meditations</i></b>, which was published in September.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fall issue of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The New Orphic Review</i></b>, of
which he is editor-in-chief, was published in early October.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nancy
Mattson</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> has two new books out, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>Finns and Amazons</i></b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>Lines from Karelia</i></b><i>. </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">You can read about them at the</span>
publisher’s website here: <a href="http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/finns.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/finns.html</span></a>
and here: <a href="http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/karelia.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/karelia.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nancy also has a website with
information about both books, including links to online reviews of <i>Finns and
Amazons : </i><a href="http://nancymattsonpoetry.blogspot.co.uk/p/finns-and-amazons.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://nancymattsonpoetry.blogspot.co.uk/p/finns-and-amazons.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lauri
Anderson</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">lectured<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>on<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Finnish-American
literature<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>and read from his own
work at a Roads Scholar<strong> </strong>meeting at the<strong>
Finnish-American Heritage Center at Finlandia University</strong> on Sept.
26-27. The following week he was a guest writer at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Iowa Wesleyan University</b> in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He visited
four different classes and at a forum spoke to the entire campus community
about his writing. He spent one day with a blind Nigerian Communications
professor and ate a Nigerian feast. Another day he met a "hippie professor"
(in his words) who had a PhD in literature but who had never
graduated with a Bachelor's Degree. The guy spoke eight languages
fluently, including Basque. Lauri just completed his ninth book, which will be published
in the spring or early summer, in time for FinnFest at Finlandia in Hancock,
Michigan in June. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Life is an Amazing Song </span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">is
an enchanting book about Finland and Sweden during and after the Russian war.
It is a wonderful memoir of a young boy's life until he arrives in America at
age 17. The book has earned 5-star ratings in several newspaper reviews. The South
Boston paper wrote that "the book is much better written than a
typical memoir." It is a perfect gift for the Holiday season and will be
treasured by family and friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Happy
holidays from the author, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John (Juha)
Raikkonen</b>. The book’s website is here: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.lifesamazingsong.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.lifesamazingsong.com/</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Rough
Beast<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Vetere Lannon<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">The ceremony of
innocence is drowned;</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">The best lack all
conviction, while the worst</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Are full of
passionate intensity.</span></span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Yeats, The Second Coming<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the
center cannot hold<span style="mso-tab-count: 6;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>cannot hold, the center<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">cannot
hold<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>mere<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>anarchy is loosed, on the loose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and
what rough beast, red-eyed and slavering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">slouches<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>crawls <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>marches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">to
be born?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast in San Francisco a half-century ago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>nightsticks <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and fire hoses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast in Birmingham a generation ago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and
in Vietnam<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>in Laos<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Cambodia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast last year<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and the
year before that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and
before that <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>in Iraq<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Afghanistan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast yesterday in Phoenix when the governor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>signed in blood<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>fangs dripping red<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast along the border<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ravenous<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>thirsty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>seeking the blood and meat of
children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast on television<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>laughing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ranting<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>screaming<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>praying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast in Berlin<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Moscow<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Washington<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Waco<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Wounded
Knee<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bisbee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>in
Tiananmen Square<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Lidice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dallas<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Memphis<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>L.A.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Golgotha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast in skins of silver<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>brown<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>black<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>scalps and tea bags<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>hanging from a crucifix<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I
saw the beast<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>in
your eyes<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and in my own<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>red-eyed
and slavering<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>staring at me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>in Zucotti Park, in
Oakland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">the
center cannot hold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>cannot hold, the center<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">cannot
hold<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>mere<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>anarchy is loosed, on the loose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and
that rough beast, red-eyed and slavering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">slouches<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>crawls <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>marches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">in
jackboots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">being
born<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Rough
Beast”</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> took first prize in poetry at the Society of
Southwestern Authors 2011 competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Albert Vetere Lannon will be organizing a Group Poem in the Finnish
tradition at the opening reception of FinnFest 2012 in Tucson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Writer's
Block</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lauri Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He put off writing his next book for so long that the characters
died of old age and neglect before he started. Then in the first sentence
he himself died in mid- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b> </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Trust in Your Experience (but
refill the prescription anyway)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jim
Heikkinen (09-27-2012)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pull down the bill of gray Nike baseball cap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Greasy sunlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Eyes on walking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <i>(Am I getting arthritis in my foot like the doctor
promised I would in 1986?)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While transversing a median, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">head strikes the steel crossbeam<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Of a highway sign that wasn’t there two day ago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> think;
thought; have thunk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Suicidal, again,</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Drunk, again,</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> a sun-bleached woman takes a running leap</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Off a mountainside, </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Falls, falls, falls</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Before landing in a bush</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">20 meters below.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What are dead cockroaches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Doing scattered across this bricked over shoreline?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A green ball bobs lazily on low tidewaters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Plastic jellyfish cling to partially exposed rocks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">this Arabian Gulf <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <i>A
few months later</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Semi-recovered,
again,</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The
woman passes by the same cliff edge spot<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> And
sees only a single bush below<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This
frame is empty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This
sign unfinished<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Winter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lisbeth Holt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There’s winter in my
soul of late<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I try to brush the
snowflakes aside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet as I gingerly step
over the permafrost,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I fear this winter is
here to stay:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There may not ever be
another spring for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I peer through
thickening cobwebs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or are they strings of
sleet, arrows of fate,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wisps of wind streaking
by?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My unsteady gait as I
hesitate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Takes me ever northward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Should I, dare I, will I
somehow embrace <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This solitary walk into
the Unknown? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I try to calm my
heartbeats <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hammering tinnily in my
chest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I apply makeup to my
pallid face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I smile like a mannequin
in my mirror <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And fail to pretend
nothing has changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This should be a song of
gratitude <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have no right to cry,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> To gnash my teeth
in silent fury. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve had the perfumed
splendor,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The babies soft and
tender<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve been able to
sweeten others’ lives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve voyaged far and
wide<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Through star-filled
skies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When one has done it
all, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The snowdrifts tall and
deep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Envelop the mortal
flesh;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The immortal soul flown:
a bird of paradise!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Song
of Equilibrium</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
--after Lars Gustafson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stephen Kuusisto<br />
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I often walk about saying I’m in equilibrium, saying that everything balances,<br />
and I have a little song on my lips, and though its imperfect<br />
it is mine--a forest ditty with words from the age of home made harps.<br />
Of my singing I can say very little, it’s a quiet means of standing<br />
and in this I am not joking. I whisper and murmur <br />
hold and guess, pause at windows<br />
trying a song of penitence before glass.<br />
If there was more to my life I would say so. <br />
I wake in the morning, sleep at night, my song unvarying.<br />
When neighbors come they do not hear my singing,<br />
but I’m working toward peace, softest words on my tongue, <br />
in equilibrium, letting the sadnesses drift<br />
and only I and the dogs can hear them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A poem by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sirpa T. Kaukinen </b>from her soon-to-be-published<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">poetry book <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Greetings
from Canada – Terveisiä Kanadasta</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;"><o:p>
</o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;"></span><br />
<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;"></span><br />
<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;"></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dancing</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
Sirpa Kaukinen<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
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<u1:p></u1:p>
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A long time ago,
at the Finn Hall, you asked me to dance. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></div>
I was unsure, but
you taught me to polka, waltz and tango,<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
And I showed you
how to rock ‘n’ roll. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
We
danced through our lives, <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
You leading, me
following, <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
Me talking, you
listening. <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
We are dancing
still, now slower, <u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
But we’ll dance
together to the end.<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p><br />
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<u1:p></u1:p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">Tanssimme</span></i></b></div>
<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;"> Sirpa Kaukinen</span><br />
<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;"></span><br />
<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;"> Kauan aikaa sitten,
Suomalaisella Haalilla, </span><br />
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">Pyysit minua tanssiin.</span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">Olin epävarma, mutta sinä opetit minulle
polkan, </span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">Valssin ja tangon, ja minä sinulle rock
‘n’roll. </span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;"></span><span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">Tanssimme läpi elämämme, </span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">Sinä vieden, minä seuraten, </span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">Minä puhuen, sinä kuunnellen. </span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">Tanssimme vieläkin, nyt hitaammin, </span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="mso-ansi-language: FI;">Mutta tanssimme yhdessä loppuun asti.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<u1:p></u1:p></span><br /></div>
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--<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p><strong>New Book of Poems and Watercolors out by Finnish Poet and Artist: </strong></o:p><strong></strong></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Akvarelleja ja runoja Lapista ja vaaramaisemista<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nauttia panoraamasta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kallion
kielekkeellä,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>niin laajasta,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">etten voi enää kosketella sitä<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To enjoy panorama, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so huge,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>upon the jutting
rock,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you can’t even touch it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nTOINzIdqng/UI2eUEz7VzI/AAAAAAAAAEE/K-21dTTDAWM/s1600/Kari%2527s+watercolor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="262" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nTOINzIdqng/UI2eUEz7VzI/AAAAAAAAAEE/K-21dTTDAWM/s1600/Kari%2527s+watercolor.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Watercolor by Kari Holma, used with permission<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></span></strong></td></tr>
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #4f81bd;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></span></strong> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Towards
the Autumn <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>Kari Holma</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Colours fall from the
height, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">as light as the leaves
of the autumn <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to float on the waves of
the lake. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The straight backs of
birches <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bow down to pick up, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the first snow always
surprises <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a wanderer of the fell. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shadows quickly shorten,
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">clouds fly like years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To our darkness we
obtain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">last rays of the light, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">springs of the fell
brooks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The colours of the
autumn <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are deep-rooted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></b> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Syksy</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ä Kohden
<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p>Kari Holma</o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Värit putoavat korkealta,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">keveinä syksyn lehdet <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">järven laineille kellumaan <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Koivujen suorat selät, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">kumartuen poimimaan, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ensilumi yllättää aina <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tunturin vaeltajan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Varjot lyhenevät nopeasti, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">pilvet kiitäen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">kuin vuodet <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kaamokseen ammennamme <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">valon viime säteistä,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tunturipuron lähteistä <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Syksyn värit <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">syöpyneet sisimpäämme <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Collapse</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">M. L. King<br />
Changjiang Delta<br />
10/27/2012<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My son’s tractor trailer truck,
rolling toward<br />
a turnpike, spouts a plume of burned fossils. <br />
Across the street a withered barn seems still,<br />
but a slight screech stops me in the driveway. <br />
I trudge on, but stop again when longer <br />
creaks reach my ears. While I watch no cars pass.<br />
I hear more groans before the structure lists <br />
slightly to the right. Then, pulled by timbers<br />
weighted with warped boards and split shingles, nails<br />
weak with age relinquish their holds; their screams <br />
yield to a whoosh as the descent quickens, <br />
crescendoes to the ground, which hurls up clouds <br />
of dust, hovering sullen, stubborn to <br />
reveal a hayfield felled beside streams past. <br />
Stricken with Alzheimer’s, my father tugs <br />
down a living room blind. My daughters run <br />
outside to stare at the ruin that’s done. <br />
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Manchurian Advance</b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">M. L. King<br />
Changjiang Delta<br />
10/27/2012<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I place a 10 Yuan Hendrix <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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From a summer of ’69 stage, Jimi <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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sizzle <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">through Marshall Amp sentries,
scorch <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of ‘07 Harbin apartment’s air. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Connections to the Past<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Diane Dettmann</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Perched on a boulder by the shore of Lake Superior, childhood
memories rumble through my mind. The fragments of rocks below my feet carry the
scent of moist sand—a memory of a nursery school sandbox so long ago. I
remember a room filled with children’s laughter, the sound of wooden puzzle
pieces clicking on the table, and an old man shuffling across the warped wooden
floor as his cigar smoke lingered in the air. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The
great lake’s moist touch triggers images of sunny afternoons adrift on Long
Lake in New Brighton, Minnesota with my father at the oars of a wooden boat
built by my Grandpa Kaurala’s skillful hands. Hours passed with my father and I
cradled in the rowboat, the lake disturbed only by the gentle breeze that
carried swimmers’ laughter along the water’s surface. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
remember clutching a fishing rod in my hands. As I stared at the red and white
bobber, I hoped a sunfish would cut through the water’s surface. In the still
summer heat, dragonflies swirled around my head, their wings echoing words of
favorite bedtime stories blended with my mother’s voice reciting the <i>Lord's
Prayer</i>. My mother, father and those who came before them are gone and so is
my childhood. All that remains is an album of black and white photos and the
memories I carry in my heart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">(<i>Front Left-Right</i>:) Hilja Lukkarila Kaurala, Paul Kaurala,
Miriam Dloniak Kaurala, Ora Folt Kaurala <i>Back:</i> Lauri Kaurala, Paul
Kaurala Esther Elleson Kaurala and Elsie Sarkela Kaurala)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Diane Dettmann’s the author of <i>Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A
Widow’s Story of Love, Loss and Renewal </i>and <i>Miriam Daughter of Finnish
Immigrants. </i>She has shared her writing at local author events, festivals
and international conferences in Finland and Canada. Diane’s website: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels</span></a><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">FinNALA Newsletter Editorial Team:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Beth L. Virtanen<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">Sirpa T. Kaukinen<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="FI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI;">G. K. Wuori.</span><span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Beth L. VIrtanen, Ph.D., Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05351765035952804525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398229515445143145.post-41527301387003186272012-06-22T18:59:00.002-07:002012-06-23T07:32:12.874-07:00<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">June
2012, Volume 5, Number 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis! Contest</i> has announced its winners. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Congratulations
to the prize winners! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> First place: Joanne Bergman, for “The
News from Nelmi: A Retrospective” (nonfiction)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Second
Place: Marlene Stoehr for “Death of a Sauna” (poem)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Third
Place: Elaine Moe for “Cleansing” (poem) <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their work is published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis! Vol. 5, No. 2, </i>and you can get to it here: <a href="http://www.finnala.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.finnala.com</span></a> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Planning for</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FinnFest 2013 is underway. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FinNALA
is having a membership meeting there, and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
G. K. Wuori </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Beth Virtanen </b>are
working with<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Hilary Virtanen </b>on the
Programming Committee to ensure maximum participation, especially from FinNALA
membership. Please click the link (<a href="http://www.finnala.com/">www.finnala.com</a>) to go to the Proposal form on the FinNALA
homepage. Use the form to submit your presentation idea so that you can ensure
an early acceptance. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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has two new books out from Arrowhead Press. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Penelope Shuttle characterizes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finns
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back through our fore-mothers, the female line. And in Finns and Amazons Nancy
Mattson thinks back. This rich and moving book explores the turmoil of the
twentieth century as it affects the individual and those who, much later, look back,
piecing together clues, retrieving what has survived. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These
poems have clarity and poise, conveying the power and fortitude of women as
‘Amazons’ , ensuring that one such woman who vanished into history did not
disappear without leaving a trace, but is given record and honour. This is a
true task of poetry, and it shines from these pages where we find the
‘simultané’ of life, one powerfully-articulated thread in the brutal tapestry
of the twentieth century.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Find out more about the poet and the book here: </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/finns.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/finns.html</span></a></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0xD6EIbIKZA/T-US1epupQI/AAAAAAAAACc/MLPO2_4s2fg/s1600/Matson-Lines+from+karelia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0xD6EIbIKZA/T-US1epupQI/AAAAAAAAACc/MLPO2_4s2fg/s320/Matson-Lines+from+karelia.jpg" width="220" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The other new work by Nancy is titled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lines from Karelia.</i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Thousands of North American
Finns, gripped by “Karelian Fever”, moved to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to
help build a socialist utopia. Nancy Mattson’s search for meaning and motive in
that doomed project began with a personal search for her great-aunt Lisi, lost
in Karelia in 1939, and went on to generate poems based on history, family
letters and an autumn train journey to Karelia to meet her Russian step-kin.
This pamphlet contains a few of those poems along with all of Lisi’s surviving
letters and some historical photographs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The work is
powerful. You can find out more about it here: <a href="http://arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/karelia.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/karelia.html</span></a>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill Vartnaw readings </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>coming up in the not too distant
future. On July 12th, at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, he will be
reading with two former Sonoma County Laureates, Mike Tuggle & Gwynn
O'Gara, plus Patti Trimble to celebrate Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who is having an
art exhibition, Cross Pollination, at the Museum. Here is the url, </span><a href="http://www.svma.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.svma.org/</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
but the readings are not listed yet. Also, he is reading at the Petaluma
Poetry Walk at noon on September 16th at the River Front Art Gallery with David
Beckman and Ron Salisbury. Here is a schedule of the Walk's readings: </span><a href="http://petalumapoetrywalk.org/2012%20Poetry%20Walk%20Schedule.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: blue;">http://petalumapoetrywalk.org/2012%20Poetry%20Walk%20Schedule.html</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Some readings happen so quickly there is no time to give notice.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ernest Hekkanen will be reading </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">at
the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></b><span style="color: black;">inaugural Elephant Mountain Literary Festival in Nelson, British
Columbia, on July 12, 2012. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be sure to
join him if you are in the area. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Steve Lehto</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> has a new book, <em><strong>Drawn to Injustice</strong>,</em> that came out last week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not “Finnish” but it is of importance
to everyone in this country. What happened to Tim Masters could happen to
anyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1987, a woman named Peggy Hettrick was brutally murdered in Colorado and her
body was dumped in a field behind Timothy Masters’ house. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Masters was 15 years old. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He walked by her body in the pre-dawn darkness
the next day but did not report it to the police because he was unsure if the
body was real. The police seized on this to accuse Masters of the crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no evidence linking him to the
crime and there was evidence pointing to others. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless, the police hounded Masters for
years and eventually he was arrested and convicted, based upon the sketchiest
evidence and psychological profiling. He spent 10 years in prison. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He eventually proved his innocence and after
he was released from prison, he proved he was framed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He sued the police and the prosecutors and won
$10 million in settlements. The lead detective is now on trial for perjury and
faces going to prison himself<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for what
he did to Masters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The killer still has
not been arrested. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Drawn to Injustice</i> is the true story of Masters’ ordeal, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">co-written by me based upon Masters’ story, which he recorded in
journals along the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book was released by Berkley in June
2012. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Find the
book here: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Injustice-Wrongful-Conviction%20Timothy/dp/0425247929/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317986345&sr=1-1"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.amazon.com/Drawn-Injustice-Wrongful-Conviction
Timothy/dp/0425247929/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317986345&sr=1-1</span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">K. A. Laity</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is currently on a
Fulbright in Ireland which had given her the elbow room to be very productive. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Her most recent publications</b> include
the following:<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rook Chant: Collected Writings on Witchcraft and Paganism.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Women’s League of Ale Drinkers, June 2012.<br />
“Twitter Wedding.” Poem. <i>Asinine Poetry</i> (Summer 2012).<br />
“Just Waiting.” Short story. <i>Near to the Knuckle</i>, 5 June 2012.<br />
“On seeking a place for a picnic.” Poem. <i>Short Humour</i>, 22 May 2012.<br />
“Wasting Time in a Writer’s Colony.” Clarion Foundation blog: 14 May 2012.<br />
“Biscuits.” Flash fiction. <i>Short Humour</i>, May 2012. Also available at <i>Postcard
Shorts</i>, May 2012.<br />
“Chickens.” Short story. <i>ACTION: Pulse Pounding Tales Vol 1</i>. Ed. Matt
Hilton: May 2012.<br />
“Horse Clock.” Short story. <i>Burning Bridges: A Renegade Fiction Anthology</i>
ed. Heath Lowrance.<br />
“Bill is Dead.” Flash fiction. <i>Pulp Metal Magazine, </i>Spring 2012.<br />
“It’s a Curse.” Short story. <i>Drunk on the Moon: A Roman Dalton Anthology</i>.
Ed. Paul D. Brazill. Dark Valentine Press, April 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stephen Kuusisto</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> has a new book of
poems forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press on October<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15 entitled <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i>Letters to Borges</i>.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is already listed with Amazon. His previous books include <em>Planet of the Blind, Eavesdropping</em>, and <em>Only Bread, Only Light: Poems. </em></span><br />
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recently bought a horse for his wife Connie. The horse's name is
Luigi! Stephen holds the post of Professor and serves as director of the
Renée Crown University Honors Program at Syracuse University. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RlKqs_mizQ4/T-XTQw62W0I/AAAAAAAAADQ/uwluptJnJEk/s1600/life+sma+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RlKqs_mizQ4/T-XTQw62W0I/AAAAAAAAADQ/uwluptJnJEk/s200/life+sma+cover.jpg" width="136" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">John (Juha) Raikkonen</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> has written an immigrant’s story title, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;">Life
is an Amazing Song </span></i></b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">. It</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is a wonderful book of a young boy's life
during the war times in Finland at his </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">grandparents
in Oulu, North Finland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later he was
sent to Orsa in the Dalarna region of Sweden. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After several years with foster parents in
Sweden, he finally returned back to Finland to his mother, sister and brother
in Hameenlinna South Finland; it was a </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">happy
homecoming after some seven years absence, but it was a shock. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He found </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">his family's life to be hard and raw. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Food was scarce. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They lived in a tiny firetrap apartment
building. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mother worked as a prison
guard and with her meager salary was barely able to support the family. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His father returned from the war and </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">immediately announced that he wanted a divorce
from mother. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that he disappeared
from their life without any financial support. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not long after their misery, there was a
change when mother regained her old position at the Internationally famous
Hotel Aulanko.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family moved to the
hotel's premises, into a solid large log cabin. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now life turned out for the better. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hotel years were exciting and uplifting.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">Life was beautiful again. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">A "miracle" happened to the boy, at
age seventeen, when he received an invitation </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">to America, with
all travel and living expenses paid, plus schooling in Philadelphia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He embraced his new life in America with vigor
- in the land of opportunity-becoming a successful business man years later. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He now lives in South Carolina with his wife,
close to their grandchildren.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You can obtain a copy of the book by visiting <a href="http://www.lifesamazingsong.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">www.LifesAmazingSong.com</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> ISBN:
1453735100 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The author will autograph each book ordered through the web site.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kenneth Lundstrom’s</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> latest book, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Return to the Land of My Fathers,</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>is available. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a fictional story, which follows a
family's struggle from the time before World War Two to the middle of the
1990s.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times-Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Times-Roman;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">World War II destroyed
much of Europe, killing hundreds of thousands and changing the lives of those
caught in its path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Return to the Land of my Fathers</i>” tells
a story of a family’s evacuation from war-torn Karelia and their lives after
the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ilmari, the father, travels to
USA and becomes a well-known artist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aleksi, the son is
imprisoned in Siberia and becomes a member of the Soviet Intelligence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He trains to be an athlete, representing the
Soviets in the 1952 Olympics, where he defects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Later he becomes a literature professor, specializing in Russian Literature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ilmari, returns to the “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Land of My Fathers</i>” in his old age, with his children and
grand-children, but is left to question the emotional reality of his return. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Return to the Land of My Fathers</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> (ISBN: 978-1-61897-347-4) is now available for $25.50 and can be ordered
through the publisher’s website: </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">http://sbpra.com/KennethLundstrom </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">or at </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">www.amazon.com </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">or </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">www.barnesandnoble.com</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Author </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kenneth Lundstrom</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> has a Ph.D. in molecular biology and is involved in cancer
research and therapy. Originally from Helsinki, Finland, he has resided in
Switzerland for the last 20 years and holds dual Finnish-Swiss citizenship. He
previously published <i>Taxi Trips to</i> <i>Remember or Forget</i>, a travel memoir,
and is now writing his next book. He frequently returns to the land of his fathers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Donna Salli's</b> play, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rock Farm</i>, centered around her Finnish-American heritage and produced (you may recall) a number of times already, including in Finland, was given a staged reading and panel critique at the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha at the end of May. Her script was one of 35 selected from over 640 scripts submitted. She spent a week there, and says it was amazing. The conference was a play development conference, and it taught her so much. She has since revised The Rock Farm, again, and is very happy with where the script is now. If anyone in the FinNALA world is interested in taking a look, she is looking for opportunities to see the play produced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The link for the conference is <a href="http://www.mccneb.edu/gptc/"></a><a href="http://www.mccneb.edu/gptc/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.mccneb.edu/gptc/</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">By
Jim Heikkinen<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Come
to life the Morton Salt Girl steps out of the pantry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Umbrella
tilted coyly and wearing a cryptic smile, she drawls, <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“When
it rains it pours.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Reaching
for an aerosol can of whipped cream, I smile back <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Then
fill my mouth to capacity with sweet foam <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Until
a great cloudburst of wet fluffy matter covers the girl<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Her
umbrella proves inadequate, her bare legs unprotected <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
must get more sleep.</span> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jim
Heikkinen</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> is
living in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on the Arabian (Persian) Gulf with
his wife and 16 month old daughter, and teaching Royal Saudi Navy cadets
English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very hot and getting
hotter (112 F humidity 45%). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says,
“Here is a salt (not ‘bath salts’ gosh—America is getting weirder by the day)
poem”: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by Michael L. King<br />
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peaks of ancient voices, <br />
meter melts from glaciers of epic <br />
verses. The trickles carve cadence <br />
into slopes, join streams<br />
that water lyric meadows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">New
Day</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
by Michael L. King<br />
(Jiangsu, 6/16/2012)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Aurora’s
splendid chariot ignites<br />
the blushing morning sky with rosy-red<br />
and purple flames from flying wheels that chase <br />
the night’s opaque and drowsy veil away.<br />
We wake, embrace, and taste our hearts’ delights.<br />
We kiss, caress, rejoice, and bless our bed.<br />
The sun ascends and warms our sacred space.<br />
We pray at purity’s altar and lay <br />
our fruits together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wrapped in silken
sheets,<br />
we nurture life with love’s ambrosial treats.<br />
We sing in bliss of future days when cribs<br />
get built and friends present their bottles, bibs<br />
and tiny clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A gleam engulfs our
eyes;<br />
we touch, delay, and rise exchanging sighs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Urgency<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
by Michael L. King<br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">(Jiangsu, 6/16/2012)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">(Inspired by Cao Zhi’s “Quatrain of Seven Steps,” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">first draft written in Harbin in February of ’07)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">A lyric written in the time it took </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">to take no more than seven steps might prove </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">that urgency motivates minds to work </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">efficiently, especially when told </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">to poetize or die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like lightning, thoughts <br />
appear in flashes, fade fast; I have lost <br />
a lot before my hand could write them down, <br />
as I have also typed a panicked verse <br />
or two in just a few minutes before <br />
a task was due.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But after endless hours<br />
in search of how ideas want to flow,<br />
I found, to find what lines are meant to be, <br />
that diligence works best, at least for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Hazel Birt</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> from Winnipeg writes
about her beloved Finnish Mummu. She</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is preparing for a
show at the Winnipeg Library of her woodcut illustrations from her children's
books: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Festivals of Finland'</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">'Flikka and the Magic Bear'</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">My Crafty Finnish Mummu<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By Hazel Birt<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In New
Finland, Saskatchewan, my Finnish Gramma Mummu was a crafter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">She did
all kinds of crafts like weaving and spinning wool but her favorite was
knitting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I
mean she knit all the time. She would go walking and knitting to the neighbors
for coffee,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">looking
at the clouds, checking the wild flowers, listening to the birds. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But one
day this habit nearly brought her to harm. She came walking and knitting right<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">through
the open kitchen door. We heard a big ‘thump’ then Mummu’s angry voice,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">‘Who left the cellar trap door open again?’</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><o:p>"</o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Oh,
my God,’ we all rushed to look down. There she was standing at the bottom of</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the
shallow dug out with her knitting in her hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">She
had everyone knitting. When Neighbor women came over for coffee Mummu<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">would
say, ‘You might as well be knitting as just sitting there.’ And she would pass
around<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">some
knitting.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> She taught all us children to knit. I remember
being this little kid missing all my first<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">teeth
and sitting in my little rocker beside Mummu knitting. The family would smile
and </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> say,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
T<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">here’s our two Mummus knitting’. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I’d be
chatting to her and she didn’t answer. I looked up and she seemed to be
sleeping <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">but she was
still knitting away...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I turned out to be an art teacher and craftsperson.
Mummu once helped me make a an </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Easter banner </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">for a church in the
Arctic. It was to be in blue Inuit Slavic Lettering on white 6 feet </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> wide
to say, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">‘Hallelujah, Christ is Risen.’ So we cut and we pasted. I
was proud to show it to Moses, </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> my Inuit </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">friend. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">He said,
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> ‘But Hazel, it doesn’t say ‘Hallelujah, Christ is risen.’ You have the
last symbol upside down. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> says </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">‘Hallelujah
dead.’ Like oops - we had to fix it before we mailed it up there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Then
when my children were small one cold day we arrived at the farm. I said, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">‘Mummu,
It’s really got cold out. Do you have any spare mitts?’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mummu
got up slowly and said, ‘Tulla Lapset’ (Come children). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">She
showed us a drawer full of mitts. There was at least 50 pairs, all with what
the kids </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> called<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">‘Idiot
Strings’ attached so they wouldn’t lose them. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I taught
all my family to knit and do crafts. My grand daughter Anna took to
finger </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> knitting,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">making
long colorful ropes . She was like Mummu she knit all the time. She and <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I would
sit knitting side by side and we’d plan what she could do with all her long
ropes. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"I
know!’, she’d say, ‘For my sister Kirsten’s Birthday, let’s decorate the house
with </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> streamers! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hang
them from the ceiling! And Kissa our cat needs a new collar. And I know,
I won’t </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> get lost in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">park
anymore - I’ll take my finger knitting and leave a long trail of it so I can
find my </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> way back.’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I have
no doubt that crafting in my family will continue to the next generation.
Especially <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Anna
will grow up to teach her children and grand children to be crafty like our
Finnish </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Mummu.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">--<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Tax Day</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">By
Albert Vetere Lannon<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I awoke this tax day morning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>happy<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">sun was bright in a cloudless spring sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>quail
were calling and doves were<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">cooing and a red cardinal <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">was singing at the edge of
our patio<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">dogs barked in the distance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and
a woodpecker staked out his territory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">on our satellite dish<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>the last spring wild<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">flowers sparked red and purple and yellow and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">white and gold<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>our
treasures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>I
filled the bird feeders<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">fed the cat<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>
brushed the dog<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">started<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the coffee and<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">made our Sunday breakfast<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">a ham and cheese oven pancake<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">bananas and melon on the side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">we sat in companionable silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>occasionally
bursting into silly song<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>laughing<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>then<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">back to eating<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>scanning
the paper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>full
of tax stories of course<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>actually reading a story now and
then<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and
I saw this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>for
every American combat death<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">in Afghanistan<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>there are<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>twenty-five suicides<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">and on theirs<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>April
15, 2012<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span> <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>and continuing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong>Less is More</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;"><strong>Underwear
in a Camera</strong> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">By Eero Sorila<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;">Too many buttons in a camera and
too much luggage to carry on a trip? <o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You are not alone if you have
been burdened by such frustrating reality. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I reached a point where I had to
do something radical to simplify my life on the road. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">You may not go to the extreme I
did. But I feel that we can all discover the wonderful </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">reality that, less is
more. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I ended up designing a home-made
camera as seen in the photo. It is basically an </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">aluminum box that floats in the
water and has a simple lens. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There is only one button to
click. The lens opening and shutter speed are easily adjusted by a manual
lever. Without batteries the camera is totally reliable. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The back of the camera is
removable. Why waste space while on the road. I fill the<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“ box” with extra pair of socks and
underwear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of my luggage fits
into a small </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">backpack. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eureka ! For me, a fossil from
the Kalevala times, less is more. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KtG1tRjh7N8/T-UTI0QUeAI/AAAAAAAAACk/gqoCqGXAu_0/s1600/Eero+with+camera2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KtG1tRjh7N8/T-UTI0QUeAI/AAAAAAAAACk/gqoCqGXAu_0/s200/Eero+with+camera2.jpg" width="142" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eero Sorila</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">With his simple camera and a
small backpack <strong>Eero Sorila</strong> has travelled the globe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">He has just completed a photo
book of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">25</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancient and Modern Landmarks</i>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Available from Xlibris Tel:
1-888-795-4274<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ISBN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>978-1-4691-113341<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Finnish
Farm </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">by Diane Dettmann<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the dusty barn,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U1kgm9XIX3U/T-UTbs58R9I/AAAAAAAAAC0/-uazmMCsHPI/s1600/Dettmann+at+bookstore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="296" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U1kgm9XIX3U/T-UTbs58R9I/AAAAAAAAAC0/-uazmMCsHPI/s320/Dettmann+at+bookstore.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diane Dettmann</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The loom in silence<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Waits to weave<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Strips of rags <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Into rugs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The sawdust
covered <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Workshop longs<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the Finnish
carpenter's <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weathered hands <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To spin <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A wooden plate <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At dusk, Finnish
voices <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hum in the kitchen,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While birch bark
crackles<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the sauna stove,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Calling bathers to an<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Evening of <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rest and peace. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hummingbirds, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rutted gravel roads<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lilac bushes, and<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The crow's caw at dawn.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UYPnhGoC0ZY/T-UTkK8AwoI/AAAAAAAAAC8/8myAp9HPTVg/s1600/Lisbeth+at+home.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="176" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UYPnhGoC0ZY/T-UTkK8AwoI/AAAAAAAAAC8/8myAp9HPTVg/s200/Lisbeth+at+home.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lisbeth Holt</td></tr>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Kaupunki Koti <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
by Lisbeth Holt<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FI" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: FI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kaupunki
koti! </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">City home!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mother’s kaupunki koti
offered comfort yet sophistication,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Furnished with colorful
rugs, paintings and books -<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A private yet welcoming
home in which she feted family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I see her little
desk even now on which she wrote her poems and stories<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In her bold
inimitable handwriting, totally absorbed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She always wanted to
live in a city home, a kaupunki koti.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She loved the sound of
traffic rushing by the windows.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She loved to be in a
charmed circle of events.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She loved to briskly
walk downtown with her regal posture<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To the grocery store,
the post office, her daily routine <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the quaint seaside
city of Lake Worth.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now when I wander room
to room in my city home, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I catch myself saying,
“kaupunki koti…”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She never did see this
city home of mine.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But of course she sees
it now and I know she approves.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We lounge in the living
room and sip a glass of wine or two,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reminisce and ponder and
tell riddles, too, with endless laughter!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We always understand
each other, don’t we?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Together, then and
now…in our kaupunki koti.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Newsletter editorial team:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beth L. Virtanen, Sirpa T. Kaukinen,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>G. K. Wuori.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>Beth L. VIrtanen, Ph.D., Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05351765035952804525noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398229515445143145.post-54468715551283912242012-02-19T14:15:00.001-08:002012-02-19T14:23:10.308-08:00FinNALA Newsletter: March 2012, Vol. 5, No. 1<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: left;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Kippis! </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Is Online </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The all-new Kippis! – Kippis! Online – is now up and running in its first edition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kippis! is the literary journal published by FinNALA, and is open to both members and non-members alike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By moving from a print journal to an online journal we’re now able to do much more with formatting, art work, and photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This first edition features poetry by Jim Heikkinen, JoEllyn Belka, and Joanne Bergman;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a great and true modern-day love story set in China; our first-ever book review (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Death’s Door, </i>by Steve Lehto), and much, much more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting there is easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just go to <a href="http://www.finnala.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.finnala.com</span></a> and click on the Kippis! link.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For the writers among us:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kippis! reads submissions all year long, and we love to see work from both beginners and more experienced writers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the present time the only compensation we are able to offer is great exposure to an appreciative audience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We want to hear from you! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis! </i>submission guidelines are <a href="http://finnala.com/Kippis_subs.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He becomes yet another Finn-Estonian-American to be so honored, accompanying Sheila Packa, Poet Laureate of Duluth, to name another Poet Laureate of Finnish heritage to be so recognized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"Bill Vartnaw [ The Estonian version being Vaartnou. ] was born and raised in Petaluma, next door to his grandmother Elmi, and her sauna, although it wasn't used much by the grandkids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Aunt Hilma who took the bus up from the city [San Francisco] and read his fortune from tea leaves when he was a kid, kept in touch with the "old country."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took his first sauna in Finland [at Aunt Sylvi's in Sysma] in 1970 and has returned a couple of times since then to share his cousins saunas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He established Taurean Horn Press in San Francisco in 1974, which has published 14 books of poetry, including his own' <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In Concern for Angels</i></b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(1984).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Vartnaw has had two<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>publications come out in 2009: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suburbs of My Childhood</i></b> from Beatitude Press in Berkeley, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Postcards</i></b> from Round Barn Press in Santa Rosa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He can be found online at the Red Room:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>>><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>http//www.redroom.com/author/bill-vartnaw<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><< "<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Finnish American Poetry by Rauhala, Vartnaw Hagelberg</i></b> [UFKB&S; Berkeley CA; 2010] p 23.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">He was published in the Winter 2010 issue of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis, A Literary Journal 2:1 (</i></b>p50,). Bill was also a founding member of The Bay Area Poets' Coalition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This is a wonderful book of a young boy’s life during the war times in Finland at his grandparents in Oulu, North Finland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later he was sent to Orsa in the Dalama region of Sweden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After several years with foster parents in Sweden, he finally returned back to Finland to his mother, sister and brother in South Finland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a happy homecoming after some seven years absence, but it was a shock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He found his family’s life to be hard and raw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Food was scarce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They lived in a tiny firetrap apartment building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mother worked as a prison guard and with her meager salary was barely able to support the family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His father returned from the war and immediately announced that he wanted a divorce from mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that he disappeared from their life without any financial support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not long after their misery, there was a change when mother regained her old position at the Internationally famous Hotel Aulanko.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family moved to the hotel’s premises, into a solid large log cabin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now life turned out for the better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hotel years were exciting and uplifting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life was beautiful again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A “miracle” happened to the boy, at age seventeen, when he received an invitation to America, with all travel and living expenses paid, plus schooling in Philadelphia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He embraced his new life in America with vigor – in the land of opportunity – becoming a successful business man years later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She was tall and well built, about thirty and on the zaftig side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her long black curly hair streamed down her back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her skirt was short, above her knees, showing off shapely legs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her blouse was fashionably tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it was her face and body language that were so arresting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has classic features and smooth olive skin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her large brown eyes were half-closed as she swayed in time to some inner music only she could hear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her voice was soft and low and seemed to be echoing the words of the sermon underway, the priest’s voice piped into the cozy chapel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were only about fifty of us there – stragglers who came late for the Sunday service, or those with small children who were free to wander, ask questions and even cry a little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest were probably those who liked to leave early, and beat the crowd out of the parking lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In short, there were no apparent mystics present. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">She stood at the front of the little chapel, alone, lost in her own reverie and her own form of worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was place of prayer and relative privacy as compared to the large formal church in front of us, visible behind closed, glassed-in doors, which seated over nine hundred people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some in the chapel seemed oblivious to the whole thing, noses buried in prayer books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others stared straight ahead, either lost in their own thoughts, or determined to ignore unusual behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A number looked up, apparently embarrassed, and then looked quickly away, uncertain of what to do perhaps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One always thinks that one will do the right thing in any circumstance, particularly the unusual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you are young, you believe you will save the people from the burning building, or snatch the baby from the railroad trestle in the nick of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What you find out as you live life is that mostly you and others are frozen in place, glued into immobility by the unusual, uncertain as to what to do for hear that it will be the wrong thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not imminent danger that frightens us off – I think it is more insecurity about our misreading of the circumstances that stops us from doing something, heroic or otherwise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The priest, speaking from the lectern on the altar, had his back to us, but was visible through the closed glass doors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he continued his sermon, the beautiful girl danced, swayed and began to chant a little, her voice a little louder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I was sitting next to an acquaintance of mine, an artist whom I knew was a member of a lay order of religious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She moved with a special mission through the world, most of her work anonymous, her goodness and kindness the only clues that she was a member of a religious order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She met my nervous glance calmly and mouthed the words, “Pray for her.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought, how lovely, and how could one go wrong doing that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The girl wasn’t really disturbing anyone, the baby I the rear corner was fussy and making a lot more noise and creating a much bigger distraction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As I mentioned, the chapel also served as a “crying room” for very small worshipers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today there was a bumper crop, always true the last Sunday of the month when baptisms were performed after this service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The small ones ranged from a docile, beautifully dressed little girl of about four down to the crying baby mentioned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In between were another five or six small children of varying ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the “star” was a very small boy of about two and half, a silent fellow, dressed in a miniature guayabera white shirt, dress khakis and brand new shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had obviously been told by his handsome young father, who never took his eyes off him, that he could go up to the doors, but not beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he tried his boundaries, on our side of the chapel, over and over again, his huge blue eyes checking on the “parental electric fence” every few seconds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Until <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the beautiful girl began to chant and sway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That caught his delighted attention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mojakka, what is it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People ask in a curious way, and you laugh, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The values of the meat or fish, varied vegetables, and spices we treasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So all the praise has been going to the boys again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“You know, Urho and I did things together, like a team of oxen!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But he was married to the shy young maiden, Sinikka, the love of his life!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Why Sinikka did all those things that Urho didn’t have the time to! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And when they were ripened, Sinikka would call all their twelve kids, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Then Sinikka would heat up the sauna fire, so it was good and hot, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And threw in the twelve children, bare naked, all in one lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Now, stomp, jump, and play on those purple grapes, big as figs!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sinikka told all the twelve children, from the little one to the big!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To store the juice ‘til she could make it into jellies and jam!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So the family could eat with rye bread, pottuja and mojakka all winter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To buy the yard goods and shoe leather, as they cost money!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And keep them in good condition for the whole family to use. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So, you see, while St. Urho has been getting all the glory for so many years, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And it was said by many that maybe Sinikka was the real sainted hero!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And give sainthood to someone whose name started with “Sin!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drizzle moistens an overgrown New England field, where hoof imprints in leaves that brown black soil between rocks cross a dirt bike trail and lead me into briars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I push through the brambles, duck under saplings until I emerge onto a carpet of red spills darkened by a roof of green atop white pines, thick with age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along the deer trail, as I inspect dew-claw dented scrapes below rubs, chickadees that flit from twig to twig brush their wings beside my eyelashes, peck my jacket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Late autumn breezes wave shadows through sunbeams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stop, light a cigarette to check the wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Resting on a blow-down, I absorb the woods, toned in variegated drabs and intermittent chirps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interrupting, a clink follows a stiff gust; I twist my neck to look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enshrouded by and suspended from a branch, a chain swings rust in a frosty swirl of smoke. <br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I start toward a stone wall, but a rush of paws and dart of grey freeze my feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A timber fox flees over the boundary while steady patter descends a hillside ahead. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tipped with black, ash, almost silver, hairs swish by sparse understory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another canine, resembling a German shepherd, approaches quickly, halts when binocular sights meet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acquired during migration, wolf genes bolster the bristled figure and sharpen the glinted stare of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canis latrans</i>,</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kippis! </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">would like to be a suitable and comfortable home for your work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With this in mind, please read the following guidelines so that you can better understand the kind of writing we are looking for and how we would like you to present it to us.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kippis! </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">welcomes submissions of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, photos, and art work from both emerging and unpublished writers as well as more experienced writers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While we are open to any style and subject matter of material sent to us, we do have a strong bias in favor of work that stresses the increasingly cross-cultural nature of the human experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The immigrant/emigrant experience, strangers in strange lands, language barriers, unique foods, music, social practices – all of these and more are part of the forces that can either unite us or divide us as a species, and these kinds of themes are what we love to present in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Regardless of subject matter, however, make sure the work you send us is your best:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>revised, corrected, proofread, all those good things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We do not consider genre work such as children’s literature, westerns, romance, horror, or science fiction, nor do we consider unsolicited book reviews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis! </i>does not consider previously published (whether in print or online) material. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fiction can range from being very short (500 words) to longer (3,000-5,000 words).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same is true for creative nonfiction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we try to present a variety of pieces in any one issue, anything longer than 5,000 words may have difficulty being accepted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For poetry, a submission of three to five pages containing one or more poems would be the norm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All submissions should be typewritten, double-spaced (poetry can be single-spaced), and in a standard font such as Times New Roman, 12-point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Electronic submissions:<span style="mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span>Postal submissions:</i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The FinNALA Newsletter </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">is the quarterly newsletter of the Finnish North American Literature Association. It accepts news items of interest to its membership, to authors and poets whose work is placed in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis!</i>, FinNALA's literary journal, and to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kippis!</i> readers. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Newsletter </i>reads submissions of short works of prose and poetry year round. Send submissions to admin at finnala dot com. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Beth L. Virtanen </span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;"><em>from all of us at FinNALA and Kippis!</em></span></strong></div>
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<strong>Suzanne Matson</strong> received a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. The novel she was writing (and read from at a previous FinNALA event at FinnFest in Minneapolis) concerning Finns has morphed and shape-changed so that it's a wider picture now, but it still has some of the Montana/Finnish immigrant "DNA" in it. An excerpt from that manuscript was what she applied with to the NEA. <span class="yiv1300796272Apple-style-span ms__id5451" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here’s a link to the release:</span></span><span class="yiv1300796272Apple-style-span ms__id5452" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span class="yiv1300796272Apple-style-span ms__id5453" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://arts.gov/news/news11/ArtworksI-GrantAnnounce.html">http://arts.gov/news/news11/ArtworksI-GrantAnnounce.html</a> </span></div>
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<strong>A Poem by Sheila Packa </strong>(It is also in the anthology noted above):<br />
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Memory / The Mine<br />
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I return but it’s all excavation — me<br />
an employee of the organization.<br />
I remember a long road past a gate,<br />
a dead landscape.<br />
Dust. Noise. First the crusher and then <br />
where I worked, the agglomerator<br />
with conveyors to the trains.<br />
First stop, the dry.<br />
A sink like a Roman fountain. <br />
Clothes blackened by taconite, yellow and white<br />
hard hats, coveralls, steel toed boots,<br />
safety glasses, the whistle <br />
starting and stopping each shift. <br />
For this, I’d propped myself on a ledge <br />
for the paycheck. <br />
Steel beams, high voltage. Dripping grease. <br />
One of the crew leaning on high pressure <br />
water hoses, blowing dust out of the nose<br />
into a handkerchief, pushing spillage <br />
down the sloping concrete floors <br />
below rolling furnaces, <br />
swallowing salt tablets from dispensers. <br />
On a swing shift, counting <br />
days till the long weekend<br />
taking smoke breaks, and calculating<br />
what falling asleep on graveyards might cost.<br />
All night and day the trains came to load<br />
and carry to the ore docks. <br />
In the lunch room I took from my lunch pail<br />
a paperback. Kept myself awake <br />
with coffee from my thermos<br />
avoided pellets and their third degree burns<br />
stared into the middle distance <br />
not the ends but the means —<br />
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<strong>Diane Dettmann </strong>has a new work in print. <em>Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widows Story of Love, Loss, and Renewal</em> is available from Outskirts Press. Find it here at <a href="http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels">http://outskirtspress.com/snowangels</a> and find Diane's blog at <a href="http://quillandthought.blogspot.com/">http://quillandthought.blogspot.com/</a> <br />
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Times", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">chess with my wife, talk to cassettes</span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why foolishly rail against our common fate? </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It is unpretentious beauty that endures after all:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Newsletter Editorial Team:<br />
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Beth L. Virtanen<br />
G. K. Wuori<br />
Sirpa Kaukinen<br />
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(c) 2011 </div>Beth L. VIrtanen, Ph.D., Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05351765035952804525noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3398229515445143145.post-35829563121069424172010-10-20T18:42:00.000-07:002010-10-28T13:50:41.215-07:00FinNALA News Fall 2010<span style="color: #cc0000;">Welcome to the new <em>FinNALA Newsletter</em>! </span><br />
I am tremendously excited to start a new phase of our publishing history, and I think this online version without the pdf files will be much more attractive. In addition, it allows us a bit more flexibility in terms of visuals. Visit our homepage at <a href="http://www.finnala.com/">http://www.finnala.com/</a>. <br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Kippis! Contest</span></em><br />
This year, we host our creative writing contest again--our third annual <em>Kippis! </em>contest. Send your short fiction (up to 3,000 words), poetry (three poems up to six double-spaced pages), and nonfiction (up to 3,000 words) with genre clearly identified along with the $25 entry fee (check or money order made out to <em>Kippis!</em>) by the deadline of December 15, 2010, to the address below. Include your physical mailing address and your email address with your submission. Multiple submissions welcome, but be sure to include a $25 fee with each entry.<br />
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Kippis!<br />
Beth Virtanen, Editor<br />
47283 Huron Street <br />
Atlantic Mine, MI 49905<br />
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We will award first, second, and third prizes of $100, $50, and $25 respectively. We will also make note of a number of worthy Honorable Mentions. <br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">FinNALA at FinnGrandFest in July/August</span></em><br />
FinNALA members showed up in force at FinnGrandFest is Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, for planned readings and writing workshops. Nancy Mattson, Sheila Packa and Kathy McTavish, Josef Aukee, Kaarina Brooks, Beth Virtanen, Ernest Hekkanen, John Byk, and Lauri Anderson all presented. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wAWJiH7T-VY/TLNAMYP8BqI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Zaeco-TaxE8/s1600/Josef+and+Nancy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wAWJiH7T-VY/TLNAMYP8BqI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Zaeco-TaxE8/s200/Josef+and+Nancy.jpg" width="200" /></a>FinNALA Members Josef Aukee and Nancy Mattson (pictured at left) met for the first time between events at FinnGrandFest 2010. Nancy is author of numerous works of poetry, including <em>Maria Breaks her Silence</em> (Coteau Books, 1989) and most recently <em>Writing with Mercury</em> (Flambard Press, 2006) Josef's <em>Town and Country: Poems </em>appeared in 2009 from Partial View. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dBPXdb_XBGY/TL-bR6i3EKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/zac_3mIDf4s/s1600/echo_lightning_front_cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_dBPXdb_XBGY/TL-bR6i3EKI/AAAAAAAAAAM/zac_3mIDf4s/s200/echo_lightning_front_cover.jpg" width="140" /></a><em>Echo & Lightning</em> (expanded edition) is about migration and change. The poems are created for oral storytelling. This book is an expanded version of a chapbook of the same title; also included are many poems from the audio CD, <i>Undertow</i>, and the chapbook, <i>Fearful Journey</i>. <i>The Kalevala</i> is the grandmother of this work; the middle section of the book (<i>Undertow)</i> explores the experience of the Water Mother. </div><br />
It is inspired by a Finnish poet, Helvi Juvonen, Walt Whitman, W.B. Yeats, and the Gnostic text, <i>Thunder, Perfect Mind</i>. The poems consider intersections with the divine in the Greek Myth of Leda and the Swan, The Bible (Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Lot’s Wife) and the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydyce.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><i>A RASCAL’S CRAFT</i> CAPTURES TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">IMMIGRANT LIFE</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px Times New Roman; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Unique poetry book depicts experience of moving from Finland to America</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px Times New Roman; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">ROYAL OAK, Mich., July 26, 2010 – The poetry of Eelu Kiviranta, who emigrated from Finland to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan at the turn of the 20</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> century to seek a better life, has been compiled and translated into English in a newly released book, <i>A Rascal’s Craft: Musings of a Finnish-American Immigrant</i>. </span></div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This one-of-a-kind book, presented in both Finnish and English, offers a glimpse into the immigrant experience through the Finnish storytelling tradition of <i>arkkiveisu</i>. Kiviranta’s engaging poetry describes a variety of contemporary events – from what it was like to work in Michigan’s copper mines, to the Temperance Movement, to commentary on America’s new-found obsession with the horseless carriage.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This book marks the first time Kiviranta’s poems have been translated into English. His granddaughter, Lillian Lehto, took up the challenge as a labor of love after professional translators said it would be too daunting a task. Her translations remain true to the poems’ style and enchanting rhyme, providing for a unique and enjoyable cultural experience.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br />
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A travel book by Eric (Eero ) Sorila-Rothberg of crazy adventures on a shoestring budget in 30 destinations including, Antarctica,North Korea, Easter Island and Mongolia has just been released.<br />
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Gary Kaunonen's book Challenge Accepted received an award from the Historical Society of Michigan in its commercial and university press publications category.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wAWJiH7T-VY/TLNOPyrg8fI/AAAAAAAAAAU/c6VqCwioEYU/s1600/Sirpa+and+Kaarina.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wAWJiH7T-VY/TLNOPyrg8fI/AAAAAAAAAAU/c6VqCwioEYU/s320/Sirpa+and+Kaarina.jpg" width="320" /></a>Kaarina's latest translation, <em>Th</em><em>e Kalevala: Tales of Magic and Adventure</em>, was on sale at the booth, and Kaarina was gracious enough to autograph copies that were purchased. Sirpa, of course, contributes to our FinNALA editorial team, and has also published a 2011 calendar which was available at the booth. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Aspasia Books Announces </span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Three New Publications</span></em></div><div>Appearing in Summer 2010 in the Soo are:</div><div><br />
1. Varpu Lindström: <i>"I Won't Be a Slave!" Selected Articles on Finnish Canadian Women's History</i>. 152 pages. $25 retail.</div><div><br />
2. Börje Vähämäki, ed. and transl., <i>A Treasury of Finnish Love Poems</i>, 128 pages. Bilingual edition. Hard cover. Retail $15. <br />
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3. <i>Diamonds of the North - Songs from Scandinavia</i>, CD. Performed byCindy Koistinen, soprano & Heidi Saario, Piano. Retail $17.</div><div><br />
These and other products can be ordered by email <a href="mailto:aspasia@aspasiabooks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:aspasia@aspasiabooks.com"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1287623996_2">aspasia@aspasiabooks.com</span></a> and after FinnGrandFest 2010 online <a href="http://www.aspasiabooks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1287623996_3">www.aspasiabooks.com</span></a>.</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dBPXdb_XBGY/TL-eGyGbIvI/AAAAAAAAAAk/0ZcnGyS5OfE/s1600/jerry.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_dBPXdb_XBGY/TL-eGyGbIvI/AAAAAAAAAAk/0ZcnGyS5OfE/s200/jerry.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>No rants, ravings, or contumely this month - just a kinder, gentler Cold Iron musing on a small part of life as it is lived today. Enlightenment awaits you at <a href="http://members2.authorsguild.net/gkwuori/newsletter.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1287623214_0">http://members2.authorsguild.net/gkwuori/newsletter.htm</span></a> He is pictured here as he read at FinnGrandFest 2010 in Sault Ste. Marie. <br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Finnish-American Poets to Perform in Berkeley on 24 October</span></em><br />
Open Microphone Follows on Sunday, October 24-Finnish-American Poetry by: <br />
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Paula Erkkila, Johanna Rauhala, Bill Vartnaw, Don Hagelberg, read in English, with hosts Gina Hansen & Harry Siitonen. Lisa daCunha-Koski will also read. <br />
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FREE ADMISSION & FREE BOWL OF SALAD Other Refreshments For Sale <br />
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Find us in the Basement [Enter from the North] of the Finnish Kaleva Hall, 1970 Chestnut Street at University, Berkeley CA 94702 <br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The New Chapbook: Finnish-American Poetry by Rauhala, Vartnaw, Hagelberg <br />
57 pages long, with biographical shorts and after thought: </span></span></span><br />
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The Finnish Kalevala Hall, <br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>The Finns of New Finland, w</em></span><em>ritten and illustrated in photos, sketches and woodcut prints </em></span><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Hazel Lauttamus Birt is available now</span>A look at the poignant efforts of the first Finnish settlers on the Canadian Prairies to survive the harsh conditions of their new home by reaching back to their ancient customs, mythology and folklore.<br />
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Available from Hazlyn Press, 705-610 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg R3c 0G5.<u> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hgbirt@shaw.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:hgbirt@shaw.ca"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1287789717_0">hgbirt@shaw.ca</span></a></u> <br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Writer, Poet, Editor, Artist, etc., Ernest Hekkanen Pictured with Wuori and Virtanen at FinnFest</span></em><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dBPXdb_XBGY/TL-dzJ6JL9I/AAAAAAAAAAU/a7WpEkx0VpI/s1600/ernest_bet_jerry.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dBPXdb_XBGY/TL-dzJ6JL9I/AAAAAAAAAAU/a7WpEkx0VpI/s320/ernest_bet_jerry.JPG" width="320" /></a>The members of FinNALA had opportunity for the first time to become acquainted at FinnGrandFest in Sault Ste. Marie. Here, Virtanen, Wuori and Hekkanen visit outside the conference rooms at the Delta Hotel where the lectures, readings and writing workshops were presented. <br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jasmín, the Dancer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em><span style="color: #e06666;">by Anita Erola</span></em></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Part One</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Jasmín met a fella,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So dashing and so keen,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">He even called her Bella,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Who knew he could also be mean.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Together they went dancing,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In hot spots ‘round our bay,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The salsa, meringue, and the swing,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They danced the night away.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In May sometime later,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">He took her far away,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And that’s what really made her,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Scheme a brilliant getaway.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">No one ever said much although they all knew,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Jasmín left the fella for a clown who never made her blue.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Part Two</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">You’ve heard the story of Jasmín</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Our heroine brave and fair,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">She danced, romanced, then blew the scene,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">With hibiscus in her hair.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">When intuition told her,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">To pack her bags post haste,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">And leave sooner than later,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">There wasn’t a minute to waste.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">And how it really happened,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">The circus rolled into town,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Jasmín seized the moment,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Unabashed, she winked at the clown.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Life can bring many surprises at just about any age,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">And Jasmín always knew she was destined to be center stage.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Part Three</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">So Jasmín joined the circus,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">And a clown named Pierre,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Her new life had new purpose,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Including a trapeze in the air.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">From town to town they traveled,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">With caravans filled with surprise,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">The town-folk were always delighted,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">And Jasmín was a sight for sore eyes.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">The nomadic life had its dangers,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Including the trapeze sans net,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">They avoided unscrupulous strangers,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">The lion was not anyone’s pet.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">Thus their saga continued with spotlights and happiness for the rest of their lives,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 294.0pt;">And it seemed that in no time at all, Pierre Junior was adept at playing with knives.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">A Snippet from <em>Pelzmantel</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><em>by K. A. Laity</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Times;">The lad below us offers his hand up to help Hallgerd step out from the hollow of the tree. She clutches me tight. I get only the briefest glimpse of the lords and ladies gathered below, arrayed in their bright hunting clothes, before Hallgerd turns and makes her slow way down the trunk of the tree behind the nimble youngster. Reaching the soft ground, the princess faces the curious crowd, chin in the air and arms wrapped possessively around me.<br />
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“Well, well, quite a wily prey we have caught today, eh friends? Pray tell, Karl, what do we call such a creature? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a pelt as this!” The smiling king reaches out to Hallgerd’s mantel and strokes the soft fur. I growl as menacingly as I can and he pulls his hand back nervously.<br />
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“Goodness! Perhaps we should let the huntsmen take care of that creature for you, little one.”<br />
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“Never! You shall not touch her—him!”<br />
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Fortunately, the young king finds amusement in this sharp girl. “Do you know who you address, my fine lady?” He turns to the hunting party with a sizable grin. They take their cue and titter appreciatively as he continues to scold Hallgerd, who remains sullenly—and wisely—silent. “Why, I am the king. You do not wish to displease the king, now do you my dear?” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Times;">Hallgerd takes another tack. “This fox saved my lfe. I owe it protection.”<br />
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That really makes the king guffaw. “Such a noble lady! Whom do I have the honor to address?”<br />
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“I am no one of any importance…your majesty,” Hallgerd adds with distaste. She casts a discerning eye over his own wardrobe, an excess of finery seldom seen in her more practical world.<br />
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“No one of importance? Yet you are dressed so well. I do not recognize the cut of your coat, but it is a very fine mantel—surely you come from a dukedom nearby? Perhaps to the south, where they get more of the sun?” He brushes a very pale hand against her soot-blackened cheek. A couple of the ladies shriek with laughter at that, waving their handkerchiefs at his recklessness.<br />
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“I am no one and nothing but a poor kitchen maid,” Hallgerd replies through clenched teeth, “this cloak my only treasure.”<br />
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“But what are you doing in the woods, child? So far from home?”<br />
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“I—I ran away,” Hallgerd says and I see the gleam of the story-teller in her eye. Go with it, my girl!<br />
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“Ran away? Dear me!”<br />
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“My parents wanted me to marry a warty old man and I couldn’t bear it because he was so unkind. So I ran away—many days—until I was nearly captured by evil robbers, but this fox—he saved me…”<br />
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“How did he do that?” the king asks breathlessly.<br />
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“He—he ran at them, barking and growling. They thought it was a wolf, I believe, and they were quite frightened.”<br />
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The king steps a little closer but keeps away from my muzzle. “And this fox? Why do<br />
you think it helped you, child? Do you enchant animals regularly?” More laughter from the lords and ladies follows this suggestion.<br />
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“No, I do not. But he is one of the animals whose pelt is sewn into this cloak so we have special bond. We must protect each other.”<br />
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“Fascinating! What shall we call you, my child?”<br />
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“They call me Pelzmantel for my coat of many furs,” Hallgerd replies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hospital Clock</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #e06666; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><em>by Eero Sorila</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A night in hospital, the clock handles are ticking in the autumn of the year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">They are announcing the times of death without forgiveness to hear.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the palliative Unit today the clock of death announces the end of time for two.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the morning hours I hear a cry of death, the clock is ticking, this time for who.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The wheezing sound<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the oxygen hoses join the ticking sound of the clock.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The concert of death pushes the dying to eternity, without a word of talk.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ambulance Sirens overshadow the subdued sounds in the palliative care.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Many have died again when new morning comes, as life deems<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fair.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On the outside of the hospital the faith of our temporal presence is the same.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This is a pilgrimage of life, in the valley of death just once, but not again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It is the requiem of humanity, blessed is the one whose trust is in the Lord.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Time will come when the clock in the hospital will stop, and death will be no more.</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><em><span style="color: #cc0000;">I Hear Songbirds<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at Bedtime.</span></em></div><div><span style="color: #cc0000;">by Burt Rairamo</span></div><div><span style="color: black;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">At bedtime when I turn my eyes away</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">From the din and dust of the passing day</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I summon pleasing images to mind</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">By the visions of my inner eye.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Now once again I smell the sweet fragrance</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Of just cut hay</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">From the stalks the reaper left to lay.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I observe no color was ever seen </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Of grass, the thicket, and the tree.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">As lovely as the color green.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I hear the echo of distant cowbells reigning</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">From the host of cattle in the shallows wading.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I observe dappled horses eyeing me</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Over post and fence </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Cheeks full of grass in a blissful trance.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I hear a songbird which thicket hides</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And the babble of brook as over stones it rides.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I hear the lapping of waves upon the shore</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And splash of returning fisherman’s steady oar.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I hear the rustle of the reeds and rushes</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And the swoosh of bow when the ground</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it touches.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The sight of the bluest lake is mine to keep</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">And those white clouds that look like sheep.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">This place of mine is pure and sweet,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The purest that I will ever meet.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Thus, I make these visions kind</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">To lull me to slumber and to peace of mind.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">Goshawk</span></em><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">by M. L. King</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Stepping along a trail, I hear a squeal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a wet, low area to my right, two big blue-grey wings—in slow motion—sweep away leaf litter, spread about four feet, and flap only twice before they fold in a fat old oak, which I proceed to and stand directly beneath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>About thirty feet up, above a large nest, an abruptly hooked beak tears into an unlucky snowshoe hare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An auburn eye stares downward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brief, sharp syllables—like fingernails on a blackboard—pierce the late spring woods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scir! Scir! Scir!</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I watch a while and then I climb atop a favorite rock ledge, where I stand with my back to the hawk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scents of pine and skunk sting my nose, malt liquor cools my throat, and the shaded scene soothes my dilating pupils, until a sudden silence twitches my spine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I turn around and see the raptor swooping down on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just before it strikes, I drop to my knees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adrenaline peaks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the hawk circles for another run, I flee over a sea of fallen trees and look back to gauge when to cower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three attacks later I reach a single track and stop, but the fury speeds in again, so I splash into a blueberry swamp and thrash my way through. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scir! Scir! Scir!</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m dive bombed repeatedly as I pant, and pound through the pucker brush, for a mile. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once on blacktop, I slow, gasp, and listen to shrieks from the woods. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Back at home I read that goshawks are fiercely aggressive, especially when nesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">As trees lose their colorful leaves</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Slowly, silently without a noticeable sigh</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">We accept the threat, winter is nigh.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The long, lazy, lacy branches</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Point or hang, silently, darkly</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Without admitting to undress.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Are these skeleton-like, dark forms,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ugly, or powerfully waiting?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">What wonderful discoveries;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Scraggly, leafy squirrels’ nests, now showing</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Birds’ nests, carefully constructed of dried grasses,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Old by half a year,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Surprisingly, now appear!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">There’s a definite cool promise, of</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Winter to come.</div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Why Wars?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></em><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;"><em>Lisa daCunha-Koski</em></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A convenient way to waste resources?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Provide employment for the jobless?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Make the stock market rise in the military-industrial sector?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">What if all the families said, “Oh, Hector!”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Then raised their families, their crops, traded peacefully,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Shared their abundance as they used their resources wisely.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Never again, the knock on the door</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The formal, fanciful burial</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">To receive a flag instead of a child</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Square, cold, calm, hard words of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“not died in vain”,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Along with courage, freedom, liberty, democracy –</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">To comfort those assembled</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">For all the days of their lives</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Without their child, the husband,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The father, sister, mother, brother.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Why wars?</div></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -0.25in 0pt; text-align: justify;"> </div></div>Beth L. VIrtanen, Ph.D., Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05351765035952804525noreply@blogger.com5