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Finnish People Manners and Habits

August 3, 2011

Finnish People Courtesies Finnish people generally have a relaxed attitude towards manners and dressing. A visitor is unlikely to offend them by accident. Common sense is quite enough in most situations, but a couple of things one should keep in mind: Finnish people are a famously taciturn people who have little time for small talk or social [...]

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Visually Impaired Cooking Class For Newbies

June 22, 2010

Visually Impaired Cooking   Now I had a chance do attemp some visually impaired cooking at Iiris.By my own choice I have remained pretty much aloof from the British crowd of Expats living in Helsinki and greater Finland.I have always chosen to venture alone,preferring to find my own way whether it be from awkward situations [...]

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Kahlil Gibran:On Pleasure

September 10, 2009

I find this a very meaningfull poem.I read this the first time when I was travelling on the ship from Stockholm,Seweden to Helsinki,Finland,in 1988.It meant a lot then and it still does today On Pleasure Kahlil Gibran Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it [...]

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Good and Evil

August 20, 2009

Readers!You may have noticed that I have posted some of the writings of Khalil Gibran.I shall carry  on for one reason.When I hit rock bottom 10 years ago,I had become someone totally obsessed with himself.I had become selfish,inpatient,intolerantn to others and generally a angry person. I have made reference to my alcohol dependance in earlier [...]

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Khalil Gibran on Friendship.If only more people read it

August 18, 2009

On Friendship Kahlil Gibran Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the [...]

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Khalil Gibran “On Freedom”

August 14, 2009

On Freedom And an orator said, “Speak to us of Freedom.” And he answered: At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom, Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them. Ay, in the grove of the temple [...]

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Khalil Gibran Biography

August 14, 2009

Khalil Gibran Biography Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, to the Maronite family of Gibran in Bsharri, a mountainous area in Northern Lebanon [Lebanon was a Turkish province part of Greater Syria (Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine) and subjugated to Ottoman dominion]. His mother Kamila Rahmeh was thirty when she begot Gibran from [...]

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