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Oh, to be in Finland, now December’s there

Posted on 19 December 2018 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

It’s too warm. It should be colder – a lot colder. It’s unseasonable. It’s beautiful, delightful, but it all feels wrong. It’s just all a bit too much, not cosy enough, not delicate enough, perhaps? Things should be the same,…

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Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again

Posted on 5 December 2018 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

A hundred years since Lithuania regained independence, all too briefly. Something to celebrate. I passed through in the summer, over sea and land from Helsinki to Warsaw and south-westwards. We didn’t stay long. I wish I had. My Polish grandmother…

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