A beautiful card from Finland comes with good advice:
"It took a long time to understand how how easy it is to improve the world: to remember something and forget something, to smile like a child, and not to be afraid to love." - Tommy Tabermann[corrected after soubriquet's comment, thank you, soubriquet]
The original in Finnish is a poem. Tommy Tabermann was known, among other things, for writing love poetry. He died last year at the age of 62.
Gosh, that is quite touching. I really like that!
ReplyDelete"It took a long time to understand how easy it is to improve the world: to remember something and forget something, to smile like a child, and not to be afraid to love."
ReplyDelete"kuinka helppoa" = how easy.
ReplyDeleteGo to the forest
ReplyDeleteGo to the mountains
Go to the far off sea
Let loneliness
Caress you
Until your skin is thin enough
So thin that your heart
Sees me though it
That I was the one
Who caressed you,
Who caresses you
Go, go.
Tommy Tabermann
@Emm, I love it!
ReplyDelete@Soubriquet, sorry, I mis-typed it. I was sent the translation but didn't manage to convey it to the blog correctly. I'll change it now.
At least, I will when I stop reading and re-reading the poem.....
A very lovely card....and words...
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