HELLO

written Sat. 22nd of January 2011 in Finland

It’s Saturday evening. My husband is watching the French news and the kids are off on a dream-ride for the night. I am awake after being almost asleep already on the couch when we watched the Finnish news. Funny they call it the news, because there seems to never be really anything new… how about the oldies!

So it happens that I feel like writing and it feels kind of nice to have the thought of a blog where to “send” these letters and thoughts. I’m only wondering if I should tell some people that I’ve started a blog!? ;-) That should be handy and give an objective to my writing, wouldn’t it, ha-haa..
I would like to think my purpose in writing is to give something to think about to others as I think about a lot of things. Well, as we all do. At least I would like to believe so that as humans we’re not passing our life’s journey without realizing all (or at least some) of what it beholds. At least seeking to find the truth of ourselves. So many given days are ours but what is the true value we give to them and ourselves is often hidden in our hearts.

Silence makes us stop but many of us find that uncomfortable. Do you?

Writing makes me stop physically and move internally in stillness. I know that by now, that it is something definitely good for me. What’s the rush. I feel today’s world is a battlefield of our attention and people including myself get so easily taken away and losing track of our own inner voice. After losing the track, we lose our faith. After losing our faith, we lose purpose. After losing purpose, we lose ourselves. Good thing is that our inner labyrinth has no dead-ends and I believe, one can always find the way back home inside.

What we say to ourselves is so important.

The picture of me. Above. That’s me and a picture taken on a course of empowering photography. What you know about me is that I enjoy writing. What you don’t know is that I haven’t shared much of my writing to others and in which I harbor some insecurity. The purpose of the picture of empowerment is to imagine what kind of picture you would like to have of yourself, where and how, and how it would be strengthening something in you. So, as usually a photographer is the one who has the control of the event, here it is the one being photographed who gives the guidelines as to what kind of picture should be taken. I wanted to take myself outside, somewhere in the wide open with a desk, chair and do what I love to do: write. I wanted to feel free, and help myself feel free to express out in the open, sure of myself. It was winter so I got this thought to go out on the frozen lake as we did, and this picture “the place of my strength” was taken. The picture means a lot to me, and with every word I dare to write from my heart, I know the river within me grows stronger.
(This method has a kind of a philosophy of it’s own and the method has been created by a finnish photographer Miina Savolainen. Check this out: http://www.voimauttavavalokuva.net/english/index.htm) Where is your place of strength?
I’m reeeeally tired now. So good night. Sleep well, sleep tight.
Rina