ISLAND DIARY 2003
Heinola Finland
The reason for there being
NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO
is that one is already there
(c) Hannu & Kiti & Ida & Milli

DAY THREE

On an island the morning paper is important - but it comes after noon, because you have to wake up, go swimming, make your body & soul wake up with breakfast, row to mainland, drive 5 km to the mailbox, drive back, row back...
That's when you realize that you will be making millions by starting a summer business delivering both the retsina and the paper to people on vacation...

...and after that life is just sunshine on the leaves...
...till it's time to do this: you start enjoying grilled Lappish cheese covered with wild strawberries picked five steps away from the house (though you would be willing to walk more for those)...
...but by the time your body is content, the mysteries of nature start acting on their own, and you are left awesomely goggle-eyed to see this...
...just to realise that it's all because of this...
...accompanied by the sounds of a trio. There are two tenors, a black-throated diver calling it's own name, "kuikka", an owl with a longing howl, and the barytone, a red-necked grebe, who is just longing to want, and wanting to long for...
[Day Four]

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