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What does freedom mean to you?

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it is possible to get to that state with some imagination and effort. And to keep dreaming and making it living reality by truth and belief in the good nature of the World at it’s core. Face the fears and believe in your own power. Fight the system by small acts of rebellion.

Note: I live in Norway. I say just to provide some info on my situation if you are curious.

I remember one elections I must mention some funny things about. It was in 2019 during elections in September and I decided to vote before visiting the local store to shop food and drinks as well as a notebook and I had recently altered my dose of psych medications. So I went into the voting booth to choose my political party to put in the box after getting a stempel on the vote. When I came out of the booth they asked me if why I only had one vote in hand, and me being kind of distant in mind didn’t understand why they asked me about this. After coming home I late in the evening realise I didn’t vote in one of the local elections because I forgot to choose two votes! I call my mother to tell her about this event and after this I remember to choose in both votes so I can have influence in local political environment.

I hope this was interesting to you, and thank you for reading my blog ❤

I have spoken about this before, but I just want to say how much I enjoy celebration of Midsummer, in the context of Arctic location and culture.

I see it like the Light within us is especially visible during this particular holiday, the bonfire and grill/BBQ events around our area. People enjoying some mild alcohol-containing drinks like cider, alcopop/rusbrus or beer (I don’t like beer myself, but most other people here love it). The Light of the Midnight sun, the comfortable temperature outside, the feeling of community and our roots in both pagan and Christian traditions. The moments of spending time outside in awe of nature.

Can you tell I absolutely adore this holiday?

Thank you all for reading ❤

Daily writing prompt

Do you vote in political elections?

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yes, I vote in national and local elections. And since year 2021 I have voted in our Saami elections as well after grandmother and mother and myself also joined the samemanntallet. Being in samemanntallet means you get influence over who is elected in Sametinget located in Karasjok.

I focus on Sámi political elections because they are somewhat controversial in Norway especially among Norwegian identified right-wing Finnmark county natives. I think it’s actually hypocritical for opposition to Sametinget at same time supporting the centralised Stortinget in the Capital Oslo and the State policies. My opinion on the topic matters to me and family members as well as rest of society and for indigenous/basic human rights.

thank you for reading ❤

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What public figure do you disagree with the most?

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so I’m far-left and grew up with strong left-leaning family members. But Progress party politicians get on my nerves when they say stupid and mean spirited things.

in particular one of them is Sylvi Listhaug who is possibly controversial even among the fellow members of Fremskrittspartiet (or FrP), she is so forceful in her way of speaking.

but still we are all human beings together on Earth, we may not agree but all are welcome to share opinions. I’m not defending her positions at all, however.

As I’ve likely said many times earlier I truly have a habit of wearing my favourite hoodies along with jeans and last but not least my new Arctic seal hide tall boots; combined they express my identity strongly and it’s also very comfortable using during our winter season. I’m interested in different traditional clothing and in particular traditional shoes of different ethnicities but being mostly cultures of Northern/Arctic indigenous groups. Kind of a side note I also like Arctic dog breeds like the Lapphund, Samoyed, Siberian husky and Alaskan Malamute.

Thank you for reading ❤

I mentioned this poem on my other blog and I want to communicate my thoughts on it as of right now, present moment.

This quote from the poem;

‘Du må ikke tåle så inderlig vel, den urett som ikke rammer deg selv’

It’s about seeing others like yourself and compassion, doing the morally right thing in hard times. I think it’s very relevant to us in present environment even if our society has got much more digital than in 1930s including in Norway where the poet/writer Arnulf Øverland came from. This poem is well-known, and rightly is so.

And to close this post;

Du må ikke sove

Daily writing prompt

What is your career plan?

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I’m autistic and psychiatric conditions very strong, I’ve never had paid work and nearly never been at work in a common sense. I had a couple of days at a library organizing books and other activities, but that was part of something else. It’s still a useful experience of library life behind the scenes.

If i could choose something that resonates with my perspective and drive, it would be deeply related to helping people like myself navigate the complex mental-health systems with very good support. I would also enjoy creative activities like producing music and to practice writing some types of poetry to learn something new.

what gives me direction in life.. well, it’s many aspects together and all are important parts of this experience of life.

I have my fighter spirits strong especially important in the harder times in life, we all get beaten up by life in some way and it’s so strange how we fight against each other rather than see our unity and compassion for others. Btw I’m not perfect and I know.

my activities give meaning to me, the music and writing are what I need to keep my mind in good working condition. I need creative work to deal with this reality of my true nature. Being schizoaffective and I know my psychiatric label isn’t actually all that I am, and also know it greatly affects me even though I’m taking two different antipsychotics currently. Asking about quetiapine next week in my doctors appointments opportunity to get this moving in the right direction.

the thought of my family and other people are important to me no matter how solitary my lifestyle is. We cannot do this all alone.

and last but not least this experience online is much more significant than I thought of in the beginning of my journey. So this community is part of something greater than just me writing into a void.

Note; not intended as complaint of my life, only the honest impression of my experiences with psychiatry and treatments for mental illness. And my passion for writing, change in perspective in psychiatry; both adult and youth type.

I got into youth psychiatry in 2007 at age 14, but I spent 6 years without real treatments, diagnosis or most importantly without any antipsychotics for psychosis after the introduction to psychiatry.

What I would have done differently would be to try push the youth psychiatry to really get more in-depth into why I came into the system in the first place. I could of course not ever be actually successful without the truly great efforts from my wonderful family, especially that of my dear mother.

So this is part if my experiences being without effective medications in the youth psychiatry settings. I began my treatments with medications at age 20 years old and I’m taking my medicine as I am supposed to. And I’m working on some type of creative writing to bring awareness to the about the role of patients in understanding mental-health conditions from different, from within, true perspectives that are valued as real.

Thank you all ❤

It’s one of my favourites and it’s special to our family as Kven people interested in learning the Kven language and history of our ethnic group. It’s not as well-known as Samefolkets dag but I celebrate both with enthusiastic feeling of belonging to something greater in meaning than just being Kven; it’s more about the community and humanity we all share.

When I was a child and teenager I had really long hair. It was the lenght to my hips and quite thick and coarse in texture, dark brown and nearly completely straight. My great-great grandfather (tippoldefar in Norwegian term) had raven black hair, he was of Sámi ethnicity. Btw I’m of strong Kven roots in addition to being Sámi plus Romani Traveller, and also of other Finnish ethnicity than Kven type (in particular Karelian and Savonian, in Eastern Finland) and this is relevant to my hair type features. I’m also very Norwegian of background I must admit, I love many aspects of Norwegian culture of my ancestors and close relatives, including our Northern Norwegian and Agder/Rogaland cultures.

Thank you for visiting my blog, fellow terrestrials/Earthlings ❤

Daily writing prompt

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

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Truly I believe in the message of this; we are not broken, so we don’t need to be ‘fixed’ in any way. Let people be who they are ❤

My Leo influence mostly comes from 12th house placements, my Mercury and Chiron plus my Sun are in very strong conjunction aspects opposite my Saturn in Aquarius in 6th house. I’m not of the outgoing/extroverted type at all and I’m on the autism spectrum as well, but I’m like a very introspective Leo in many ways.

I’m soon going to officially get my new name, I need to be prepared for challenge in this process of my identity and everyday life. I truly am an Ingvild inside and a Torunn of nature, and I want to be officially the person I feel like I am inside.

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What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?

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This day 6th of February is Samefolkets dag and it is important to me for several reasons, the Sámi culture is honored and there are a lot of Sámi related topics in the news. Sámi traditional food and traditional clothing are big part of the celebration as well as the Sámi languages and music. I feel like it’s about diversity as well as the unique features of Sámi culture.

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Have you ever been camping?

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I’ve written a bit about this school trip to high altitude location near mountains and the lake, this was in Northern Norway. But I thought to add a little something to it still.

As I forgot to mention last time we went on foot to the lake in rainfall and fog, yet I remember it not as pointless, but actually meaningful. I remember we had a bonfire and some food, I believe it was ‘grillpølser’ as we call them here.

We also played with laser lights and other very trippy stuff, pun intended. We were 13 and had no alcohol or anything, of course; just some Burn energy drinks that were legal (in Sweden). And I was okay waking up outside, it was an interesting experience out in our natural environments.

thanks for reading ❤

I’m really happy and enthusiastic about today right at this moment, I’m feeling better than usual and that I am genuinely thankful for.

Daily writing prompt

When do you feel most productive?

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I feel most productive during my waking nights, whether in our December winter during our darkest polar nights or the June Midnight sun Light of summer. During these nights I get so much done, feels like sometimes it’s kind of manic this thing. And I used to be a heavy user of energy drinks (three to four each day on average) but now I don’t drink every day because I’m not so dependent on them anymore.

I feel like night time is sacred to us on the neurodivergent/schizoaffective side, I’m also epileptic (temporal lobe epilepsy) so I need to be careful staying up all night for extended time. I enjoy an iPod session during the waking nights, playing some drum&bass music to get my energy in balance. Often I write quite a lot during these nights, blog or other media/forms including writing in physical notebooks. I like reading in different ways either a book or reading something on my electronic device. Sometimes I watch a great and interesting documentary of some kind, or old tv series from 1970s television (NRK).

There are a lot of activities to do during the nights in every season, but the Midnight sun presents special moments due to the all-day light. Enjoying a can of cider outside in the garden, watching our wonderful view in mindful state (or maybe slightly tipsy and affected by the different psychoactive beverages), it’s special. I really love our Arctic summers and the place I live is so magical, we get plenty of tourists wanting to experience our unique environment and culture.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog, it truly means a lot to me and I hope it was interesting to others reading. Have a wonderful day ❤

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What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?

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I’m from Norway and we celebrate Midsummer in late June, Sankthans. I like just walking outside watching people and the places the bonfire is and with the BBQ celebration. I choose sometimes to have several cans of cider being outside, and we live somewhere that’s close to nature so the view we have is absolutely wonderful.

Our summer is short and our winter is very long, so summer time is special to us in ways difficult to explain to even many Norwegian Southerners, they have true Sankthans as well but not Midnight sun like here and they have a slightly shorter winter.

so we have a mix of Christian and pagan tradition during Midsummer, people get together and light bonfires and grill/BBQ celebration outside. And often alcohol for the adults, people should not buy alcopop to underage teens, it’s illegal in Norway.

I’m looking forward to this holiday, thank you for reading this blog ❤ ❤

Daily writing prompt

What are your favorite brands and why?

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Topaz; I have two new pairs of seal hide boots with fur outside and wool inside, the tall boots are called Amundsen and regular boots are called Sami. They are pretty, warm in freezing cold and symbolic of my roots/ethnicity. I really love these shoes and therefore I like the Topaz brand as well, high quality boots.

English Tea shop: I really like the Earl Grey and they have a lot of very nice teas of different kinds both Earl Grey, oolong, herbal tea mixed, berry tea, good plain white tea etc/osv. The box is pretty and I enjoy drinking hot tea in morning and evening, afternoon or night.

Sloggi; I’m wearing Sloggi underwear mostly, I have some favourite models from this brand. They even have unique types for use during the womanhood curse (my own term for periods) and that is so useful to many of us. I have a top as well, it’s very comfortable wearing.

so those are some of my favourite brands, I hope this was useful/interesting to others. Thank you for reading and I wish you all a nice day ❤

I’m drinking this type of energy drink tomorrow morning, I like it a lot. The taste is not too sweet and not too sour either, and I like apples in general; especially our Norwegian kind that’s quite different from other types. I of course also love berries like cloudberry (in my blogs name as well, a strong symbol of my Saami and Kven heritage), raspberry and strawberry.

I want to read both non-fiction and fantasy, about genealogy, ethnic minorities and astrology. Collections of poetry, in any language. I enjoy reading a lot and I truly want to write something about my experiences and perspective, maybe some of my creative writing as well.

Sun + Moon + Rising/Ascendant in Leo. I want to know what it feels like being so regal and proud, mystical in a true Leo way. I also want to live a day as Björk who is a triple Scorpio, I love her music as well with that special voice and way of being. Btw my astrology interest goes much deeper and into the many details than it can look like from this post.

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What topics do you like to discuss?

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these two topics go well together and I like that. Genealogy and ethnicities have been some of my autistic passions over the years and still strong today. I don’t have narrow interests; many neurotypical people like speaking with me about my topics of interest. And I’m useful to my family members in this way, I know a lot about our ancestry and in these times also our genetic ethnicities estimates from DNA-testing like MyHeritage and 23andMe.

School for me was quite difficult and I had enuresis (often day, and nearly every night) so I happen to have accidents quite often. This made me very anxious and nervous, and bullies like that feeling in the victims so they can inflict more shame and make people break down in tears. I got some help when I needed it most, thank goodness for Norwegian health-care.

Sorry this isn’t at all happy, sometimes I just cannot express my sense of humor.

But on the bright side I have a blog and I know the World has beautiful aspects hidden in the deep Darkness and everything makes sense in nature of the spirits world. We can grow to be stronger and more compassionate human beings, that’s very important.

Thanks for reading ❤

I enjoy online shops from Cubus, Sunkost and the pharmacy. So I sometimes go on an online shopping spree and buy both very useful and not so necessary things, and spend a lot of money on this. Recently I bought another pair of jeans, had to buy a smaller size than usual and it fit me much better. But clothes are quite expensive sometimes, I also love shoes and I have a pair of wonderful boots thst cost me 5000 Norwegian kroner and I absolutely adore them, seal hide tall boots with fur outside and wool inside they are called Amundsen and it’s Topaz brand. I’m rambling now maybe?

But I think many things are worth the risk, and same with life in general. I blog and write about dark topics every day and it’s risk involved there too. and I choose to blog and be authentic as I feel. We need to be open about mental-health conditions and adversity plus minority groups topics, plus political themes of interest to the identity and community.

Thank you for visiting my blog and happy Friday! ❤ ❤

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I vote in general elections, on the national level and local politicians. I also importantly can vote in Sámi elections as I’m a member of samemanntallet, we get some influence on what is decided in Sametinget. I’m not saying voting is the answer but I personally vote in the elections I have right to vote in.

thank you for reading ❤

Note: I know this sounds strange, but I am certain I won’t regret this choice at all. And I’m not in transition of gender, I’m only getting new name that match my identity.

Ingvild stays up all day, all night

Torunn, the Leo rebel Queen

My official offline name will soon change to match what I feel like is my identity, I’ve already gotten some experience with using my chosen name in real life. And it’s certainly a risk, and a big change that I will likely still be surprised by. But it will be so worth it ❤

I don’t like having limited time getting something done well, I need the time necessary to do it with skill and faith in the results. So a deadline is often an unwelcome aspect of these types of tasks.

Daily writing prompt

Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.

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I am a psychiatric patient and I have been in psychiatry since 2007 at 14 years old. I’ve learned through many experiences that asking the doctors important questions from a place of my own confident nature has great value to my recovery and treatments. I don’t like authoritarian doctors at all, and I never give in to them; I fight strong for my rights and value in my own lived experiences. These doctors have not experiences with psychiatry the same way I have taking medications and healing from years of untreated psychotic condition, even moderate-severe overdose of a powerful medicine in a desperate moment. So I don’t regret this risk and I keep moving forward with this mindset and fighter spirits.

don’t be afraid to speak your mind and you deserve respect as a human being ❤ ❤

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When do you feel most productive?

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I just recently writing about difficult topics so I wanted to talk about tea now.

We are heading for the brighter parts of the year, Midnight sun is soon back again from end May to end July. And I love my Earl Grey a lot, the English Tea Shop one is the best according to my perspective. So it doesn’t get dark at night in June but I take my sleeping pills when it’s difficult to fall asleep naturally. And dark curtains are a big help in the all-day light if you have a room where it’s sun on it at nighttime.

I feel more productive after a cup of Earl Grey and I’m present within the moment, more aware of my mind and surroundings.

And I wish to thank every reader for your time and quiet support. I wish you all well ❤

Det er vanskelig for meg å skrive om enkelte tema på mitt eget morsmål, det er mye lettere å skrive på engelsk om problemene jeg hadde på skolen. Men noen ganger er det nyttig å øve på å virkelig være åpen med seg selv og andre på morsmålet. Så her er en tekst jeg strevde med å få sagt.

Jeg ble mobbet mye i barneskolen og på ungdomsskolen, jeg hadde udiagnostisert Asperger syndrom og psykotisk lidelse i tillegg. De stjal tingene mine, truet med å legge ut bilder av meg da de så hva jeg hadde på under jeansen. Trengte bleier fordi jeg ellers hadde tissa i buksa samtidig som den månedlige syklusen, jeg takker Gud for at jeg brukte dem likevel. Jeg hadde sengevæting også, så jeg brukte dem også da. Jeg mener det virkelig, det er mye vanskeligere å faktisk si dette på norsk. Jeg var i BUP systemet et par år og de gjorde ingen utredning for å finne hva jeg egentlig hadde slags diagnose, dessverre maste vi ikke om å få ordentlig utredning på tidspunktet.

Sosionomen jeg snakket med fra BUP visste ikke at jeg ble mobbet fordi jeg ikke hadde fortalt han det før jeg brøt sammen i gråt etter en helt ekstrem episode i Sverige på klassetur. Han ble ganske frustrert av at jeg ikke hadde sagt dette før, men det er ikke lett å innrømme at man ikke strekker til sosialt med jevnaldrende som utnytter svakheter og annerledeshet til noe de kan heve sin egen status med i gruppen.

Jeg skulle ha snakket med noen om dette, og fortalt dem om symptomer på psykose og bipolar lidelse. Jeg hadde fortalt dem om mobbingen jeg strevde med, og livet generelt med en fraværende far som var rusavhengig og ustabil.

Klarer ikke skrive mer, beklager. Jeg er takknemlig for at dere leser bloggen min, det betyr mye for meg ❤

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What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?

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Note: some text in Norwegian language

because our Arctic winters are so long, we really appreciate the Arctic summer even when it’s far from warm: I feel good in summer time even at 10°C and rainfall. We have the all-day light during our summer holiday; the Midnight sun and it’s magical really we are so used to it but it’s still wonderful to experience.

Norwegian; Jeg gleder meg sånn til sommerferien i år, jeg skal være mye ute i hagen og drikke kald energidrikk sammen med kald rusbrus og pærecider rundt midnatt i det vidunderlige solskinnet og den magiske stemningen vi opplever rundt det. Å bli litt solbrun fra å være ute i solskinnet og få nok D-vitamin fra naturen, jeg tar D-vitamin (kosttilskudd) hele året fordi jeg alltid ligger lavt i nivå på blodprøver. Ha på musikk på iPod og noen ganger koble den til høyttaler når jeg trenger en oppmuntring.

so summer holiday is my favourite because it’s wonderful spending time together outside in the garden or walking to local store or visiting family and drinking cold drinks together in the summer warmth, or just being by myself contemplating the meaning of this joy and being happy for what is good for our family, and also for our society as a whole. We all deserve peace ☮️💜

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Have you ever been camping?

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I remember we were at very first weeks of 8th grade we went to stay the night in tents with sleeping bags on high altitude close to the mountain and a lake. When we need to be relieved it was a kind of latrine outside so it was hardcore trip. We also had a lot of fun being together at night time, some of the other youths had bought energy drinks in Sweden (living right next to border with Northern Sweden, Norrbotten county) and I got a sip/taste of one, Burn brand in particular. And I prepared well for the trip ahead so I didn’t have to worry about wetting the sleeping bag at night. We were singing sad/deep lyrics songs at night, and my classmates were quite nice to each other right then.

I’m strongly interested in our natural environments and I feel connection with the World around me in this situation of sleeping outside in a tent.

thanks for reading ❤

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What makes you nervous?

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1 teenagers;

Teenagers scare me because of my negative experiences with them as a teenager and they are unpredictable in general, my heart starts racing when I see them and this used to be much worse when I was younger before getting on my antipsychotics and SSRI.

2 unexpected questions;

Unexpected questions make me nervous because I’m not prepared to answer correctly in a confident way.

3 rejection;

This is a major issues I have and many people fear rejection also, btw I have Saturn in Aquarius so it’s also a big part of my astrology.

4 paranoid delusions and voices in public spaces;

I have schizoaffective condition and I don’t like being outside when I have my more psychotic days, it’s very difficult to deal with this when I’m not in a very familiar setting.

5 being outside during rush hour;

This is especially difficult if I also experience the other things that make me nervous.

6 anxiety and obsessive thoughts;

I have anxiety and OCD, and I fear being nervous with others even though I have nothing to hide.

I truly wish I had a close relationship with another woman, a kind of romantic type at the core. I’m a lesbian and I’ve known about my preferred direction since at the earlier parts during late childhood and later in my teens more in-depth and with intensity. I’m if you don’t know me from before an autistic/Aspie woman turning 32 this late summer and I’m from Northern Scandinavian region with strong Finnish roots.

Despite my conditions and deep insecurity I wish to connect with someone on a deep level that I’ve never experienced before.

And thank you so much for reading my blog ❤

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What topics do you like to discuss?

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I’m on the far-left side politically and my family in general is socialist-leaning or even communist in the older generation. We are all passionate about our natural environment and importantly in actions as well as words. I’m the only anarchist in my family but I like speaking with my political left side family members, we have some strong right wing members as well but we don’t bother with much politically charged arguments as we know we don’t mutually understand the others perspective.

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How do you unwind after a demanding day?

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after a long day on errands and visits to other people I need to just unwind in my own way, and in the summer the natural conditions are different from other times. I also spend time listening to music I enjoy after coming home again after hectic errands and other activities involving many people together. This is completely necessary if my well-being is to be good.

about our summers it’s very prescious to the local people because our winters are very long. On very warm days it’s like 30°C outside and sunny so hot tea is not ideal right then, luckily I always try having some type of iced tea. My favourite brand/type is either the peach black tea or the wonderful white tea isTe types. I just love chill tea in summer season ❤

Note: I know this particular example in title isn’t really a physical book, but I search online for different names (often Norse origin ones) on that website very, very often these days. I think that website is very interesting and I use it to get deep understanding of the meaning and statistics, like how many got the name in a particular year.

I love learning about names and the statistics involved, it also relates to my interests in genealogy and ethnicities. I’m from Norway and I like Norse origin names especially, also because many of my family members have quite strong Norse influence in given/first names.

So a good book about names, including last names/surnames also, will be a very well-read book on my shelf ❤

(About my favourite emojis, dailyprompt)

❄️🌨💙🇫🇮 + 👌💗💕 + 🤔🇧🇻🌞😂 + ♀️💜♀️

buorre eahket, buorre idja, buorre iđit, buorre beaivi

good evening, good night, good morning, good day

And this, in Finnish: Hyviä aikoja toivottaen!

Norwegian language text:

Monster-E og en cider, hipster-karsk; eple alt sammen som jeg skrev på andre bloggen i dag. Say it ain’t so og effektiv smertestillende for Chiari type 1 (Chiari malformation) og de hjelper meg faktisk med mange symptomer i tillegg til sterke fysiske smerter. Og jeg hører på musikk ❤

English summary: alcohol-containing cider and energy drinks with apple flavour, the band Weezer and their track ‘Say it ain’t so’ and the painkillers that help. And I’m listening to music ❤

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How do you use social media?

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I’m not on any other social media currently, but I have a online family tree as well. I read and post, like searching for my favourite music from my youth years on YouTube. I write different kinds of texts, whether creative or plain. I enjoy the community here a lot as well. My news come from (far-left) left side political themes and I like what resonates with me and stir my emotions, poems or creative acts of kindness. I could not easily go back to life before blogging, it’s become a big part of my everyday life actually and I think it’s better in many ways.

thank you for listening ❤

In 2016 going on our summer holiday to Kristiansand in Agder county we actually took the train from Oslo to Kristiansand, we don’t have any railroads in Finnmark county and in general Northern Norway doesn’t have railway except some places in Nordland county.

And while me and my mother were talking we saw a young man in front decided to speak with him and this conversation was so interesting, he was a Southern student on one of the schools in the region. He had curly hair and he was listening to us, two Northern women on summer holiday seeing our close Agder family and visit our memories of Kristiansand as a city. And I had gotten on quite effective psych medications so I was much more outgoing/social in general.

We were talking for at least an hour according to my memory and perception of time, many different topics and his accent/dialect was so unique and he told us where he was from during the conversation we had.

Btw I love far-Southern culture in general and the people are so kind in a quiet way at the same time being honest and good sense of humor.

I’m so thankful and happy we got to speak with someone we never would have met staying home, and I hope he thought it was interesting as well.

Thanks for reading ❤

Daily writing prompt

Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.

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it’s raining, or rather right now something Norwegians call ‘sludd’ a mixture of rain and snow. So the winter is soon to leave, but we live here in the Arctic location so snow can often happen unexpected.

Note: this is kind of different from the question. But it was the first thing I thought of apart from that I mentioned on other blog.

Our school trip to the Mountain lake was as usual very much an escape from the adversity I often experienced, but I had an inner adversary as well; the voices in my head. I sat alone on a rock cover with moss and then a dark hair foreign student joined me, she was actually from (Iraqi) Kurdistan. We got along so well that day and soon after we were best friends, it was so worth the trip and being apart spending time with an outsider kind of similar to myself in many ways.

Love your random encounter with future friends, it saved my school years from being worse.

Thank you for reading ❤

Note: this is mostly about the Kven language and culture.

I’m of Kven ancestry and our family culture is very strong in Kven influence. The Kven people are kind of like an old diaspora from Northern Finland going often centuries back, living in Northern Norway and speaking the Kven language that is quite similar to the Finnish language. I’m a proud Kven ❤

If my ancestors had been able to keep the native languages we had likely spoken Kven and North Sámi as well as Norwegian. There are forced assimilation policies mostly in the past but make no mistake it’s actually still somewhat of a problem especially for Kven people due to the perception we are just really immigrants and not ‘urfolk/indigenous’ to Northern Norway, no such prejudice toward the Sámi as they/we are already recognized as indigenous/urfolk in Norway.

Me and my maternal grandmother have strong attempted to learn the Kven language from language course and we are passionate members of the local Kven group and the national ‘Norske Kveners Forbund’ that fight for Kven topics in general and awareness of our culture, including the languages. I also want to learn North Sámi language and standard Finnish as well.

Honestly I still am not fluent in Kven language, but I truly am going to practice a lot with my Kven identified family members to know more, and not to mention it’s also fun ❤

Thanks for listening ❤