Good forest walk today 💚 #nature #forest #winter #finland #photography

I was a bit sad yesterday. I thought I’d left my favorite scarf in the bus and it was lost. Today I decided to go for a walk, and there my scarf was, hanging on a traffic sign! I was so happy I shed a little tear 🥲 thanks kind stranger who picked it from the ground and left it for me to find ❤️

I’ve been swimming 3-4 days a week for 6 weeks. Started at 1k, and now I’m doing 1,2k. I’ve had 50 % less migraine, and could decrease the use of triptans. My 11 year old just told me I look ”maybe a bit thinner and much more energetic”. I guess I have to keep this up now for the rest of my life 😅

#finland in November. Waiting for my daughter to finish her training. Tuesday evening is becoming my favorite: I get 2 hours alone time in the swimming centre. Today I did 1200 m 💪 A bit eventful tonight: a lady had a nosebleed in the showers, and just when I got in the pool the fire alarm started..

Vituttaa vanhat ja narsistiset papat fantasioimassa ydinkokeista, idässä ja lännessä.

Listening to streamed seminars is a perfect time for me to paint 😅 Connects well to the topic today: Life requires art (Elämä vaatii taidetta), a book release seminar by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland. Very interesting book, and I’m waiting for my copies to arrive on mail soon. #art #painting

The power of visualisation.

Roligt att se alla tre lättlästa böcker som jag formgivit under den senaste tiden samlade i årets Bokkatalog: slfinland.prenly.com/p/bokkatalog... #lattlast #bokkultur #bokdesign #finlandssvenskabocker #bokkatalogen2025 #illustration #grafiskdesign

Love that my kids have started collecting #LP #records 🖤 Today we visited an international record fair in #turku Funny that it’s mostly older men at the event. My son said maybe they are looking for rock mostly. He joked that his taste is more non-binary 😆 (we bought Melvins, Kraftwerk and Gorillaz)

Happy birthday to my beautiful, sweet mom today ❤️ these old pictures are so wonderful, taken by my dad in the 1980s when we lived on the west coast of Sweden.

Late October 🧡 #autumn #october #turku #finland #photography #photowalk

October is rhinestone month 💎 once again I’m gluing thousands of these on my daughter’s gymnastics costume, so that the whole troupe shines on the mat. On Saturday the competition season starts. And these are a nice #visualstim too.. rhinestone #asmr 💎😁 #crafts #costume

Snabbt besök på #helsingforsbokmassa idag. Ett supertrevligt Prata bok med @henrikaandersson.bsky.social och eleverna från Kervo 🧡 De var verkligen superduktiga intervjuare! Och jag hittade den senaste lättlästa boken som jag formgivit för S&S: Norrskenet ser på oss 🩷

I have a group exhibition coming up in January, and about 5-6 paintings that are all half done but potential candidates for the exhibition. Took some closeups of parts that I like about them today to sort of remind myself what I want to do.. we’ll see how they end up! #painting #workinprogress #art

What a superduper day and it’s only 14.42. The morning was frosty and I went swimming 1k. After that a visit to a book release at Mökkigalleria in Kaarina. The feeling there is always so warm and welcoming 🧡 Now I’m hanging out with the fam the rest of the day ❤️

This rainbow is telling me that going to the swimming pool after work today was a great idea. The post-swim euphoria also says so 💪🥰🌈 Also there was a really nice community feeling in there today. People were nice and polite. Even some words exchanged with strangers 🩵

Climbed up the little hill in the forest today. But since I still have trouble walking (now my heel), I decided to get a 4 month swimming+gym card to get enough exercise. I love swimming, but don’t love all the hassle with getting there, locker rooms, crowded lanes, ill fitting swim wear etc.

Nästa vecka 23.10 kl. 12 blir @henrikaandersson.bsky.social och jag intervjuade av elever från Svenskbacka skola i Kervo. Vi ska prata om boken Alldeles lysande som samskapades med 272 barn i språköskolor runt om i Finland! Kom och lyssna 📚#helsingforsbokmässa2025 #barnböcker #illustration

I think October might be my favorite month, when it comes to nature and light. #autumn #october #nature #trees #finland #turku

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microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents? me: save to desktop microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures? me: save to desktop microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads? me: desktop

I have to go out and work in cafés more. So much better focus, creative thinking and clarity. Perfect amount of stimulation for my brain. I’ve been reading up on narrative analysis methodology, and it feels like I made some good connections to my material. Anyway, a moment when writing felt easy.

Powerful article. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Haven’t posted #knitting or #crafts in a long while, but I’ve been mostly working on this huge blanket while watching all the Vikings series. It needs about 50 cm more to cover a bed. My 17 year old already reserved it for her room ☺️😍

An inspiring second day of the #cultureandhealthforum #turku Our presentation went well and it was especially nice with positive feedback after, and exciting new contacts in the arts and wellbeing sector 🙏

First day of Culture and Health Forum in Turku started with magical circus performances 🤸‍♂️ Tomorrow my collaborator and I are having our research and demo presentation about a drama workshop with teens. We’ll be acting a bit too 😅 #cultureandhealthforum #turku

Life is lifing hard with too much work eternally behind on housework still a persistent cough from the flu that started 3 weeks ago. But I stopped a moment and took a picture of this light cloud to send to my son who is back on the 3,5 hour bus trip to school again. He appreciates good #clouds

5 and 7 trying to not cough every 30 seconds, and when will this flu end, I’m really fed up with it now 🫩

I’ve had a sore throat since Saturday and also constant violent cough for 3 days, failed to deliver for several deadlines and had to cancel many meetings because talking hurts, and everything sucks. But at least I got a pic of a morning moon when driving my kid to her bus for school 🌖

Today 3.17 in the morning marked 20 years of parenthood for me. My boy is no longer a teen. Time is strange. Love is bliss and fear. Being a parent doesn’t end when the child becomes an adult. But the relationship changes ofc. You let go and give support, but he’s one of my best friends too now ❤️

Monet ongelmat nykypäivänä johtuvat mielestäni siitä että yhteys itseen, toisiin ja ympäristöön on katkennut. Salonen: Aineettomat asiat, kuten yhteys toisiin ihmisiin, ystävyys, yhteisöllisyys, kulttuuri ja taide, ovat elämän mielekkyyden ja tyytyväisyyden kannalta ratkaisevia.

Onko suomalaiset muuten Golf-virran pysähdyttyä "elintasopakolaisia" vai "maahantunkeutujia" jos lähtevät asumaan vähän lämpimämpään maahan? Tarvitseeko paikallisten asukkaiden ottaa vastaan? Saako paikallinen kylähullu prime timessa kertoa, että "suomalaiset ovat sikoja ja verilöylyn aiheuttajia"?

"New analysis examined models that were run for longer, to 2300 and 2500. These show the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades, but that the collapse itself may not happen until 50 to 100 years later" 1/n

Vilka är era bästa exempel på saker som slutade vara allmänt okej efter andra världskriget men som kommit tillbaka? Nazism, öppet svaghetsförakt, eugenik, visst, men mer?

I wish I had more animals close to me. There’s wild hares, foxes, birds, squirrels around. But I want to see more cats. I love to greet neighborhood dogs. I’d like to have pets, but can’t afford it. How can I get closer to animals in my everyday life? I feel like it would improve my life a lot! 🥺

The forest was lovely today #nature #berries #naturephotography #photography #photowalk #finland #latesummer

Plantkiller strikes again 🥲 I have no idea why these two didn’t make it. Not enough light? Too much water? They went really fast too.. I’m starting to learn which plants are easy to care for: they are the ones that survive more than a year in my house 😂

Home after a great two days of staff seminars in Vaasa! My colleague Heidi and I presented our current project and we heard other interesting lectures for example about ”menopause friendly workplace” and Novia’s sustainability strategy. Now I’m all peopled out but very pleased with my inspiring job.

En påminnelse om att upphettningen har gått mycket snabbare än vi trodde för bara tio år sedan. #klimat

Lukusuositus: miksi meillä ei ole varaa taloudelliseen eriarvoisuuteen eikä rikkaisiin. "As environmental, social and humanitarian crises escalate, the world can no longer afford two things: first, the costs of economic inequality; and second, the rich."

I got lucky today and was joined by this fellow when having breakfast 🩶 our eyes met and it started to wash itself and sat there for 5 minutes 🐱 #cat

Hoivaa voi verrata teihin ja sähköverkkoon: se on perusinfrastruktuuria. Työntekijät eivät voi olla työpaikalla, jos lapset, vanhukset tai sairaat läheiset jäävät ilman tukea. Sikai hoiva ei ole vain yksityinen asia – se on poliittinen ja taloudellinen kysymys. www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

Driving my boy to a new city and school where he’ll be studying media and film ❤️ hopefully he’ll like it there 🙏

So nice to have a deep discussion at the office morning coffee about the meaning of AI for knowledge workers like us, and for wellbeing of children&youth. I’ve been a bit socially isolated during my holiday, so a nice perk with a work community are the coffee breaks and intelligent discussions ☕️💙

My inside herb garden is doing well again 💚 I totally suck at caring for plants (I simply forget about them with so much else on my mind) but this thing really works for me and I have fresh basil, parsley and watercress.

Last day of vacation. I feel very ready to get back to work. In June I had 15 migraine days, and in July only 8 (most in the beginning + flu), so it's evident that a less hectic life would help.. The challenge is to find a good worklife balance, and reduce stress every day, not just once a year :/

Finished the series Dark (Netflix). We binged it in a few days, so it's magnetic once you get into it. Third season lost a bit of steam though, but it wasn't bad. I was most impressed with how they managed to keep a story that complex understandable. I liked the ending, especially the last scene.

Found an interesting composer on Tiktok, Gabríel Ólafs, and felt inspired to match his ”The Lily” to some video material: #flowers at the #botanicalgarden in #turku. My vacation has done it’s job now, as I can’t stop myself from wanting to create and posting on TT and here so much 😅🌺🐝 #creativity

I saw a tiktok video of a person talking about how they read: writing in the margins and debating with the author, adding post-it summaries etc. I've done that since forever, but hearing someone talk about it felt so validating and inspiring that now I want to desperately READ ALL THE BOOKS NOW.

#Perustulo tulisi varmasti halvemmaksi kuin Stasi-koneiston pyörittäminen. Vapaa ihminen on luova ja aktiivinen, kyttäys ja vaino tappaa ihmisen sisältä. Nykytyöelämä on yhä pirstaleisempaa, usein ainoa tapa on koota toimeentulo useista lähteistä. Hallitus elää menneisyydessä eikä luota ihmisiin.