Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Son

"...
I was born at the time of snow, My name-
It was Miats Ta-weet Tu-eka-kas,
The son of my father Tu-eka-kas.
But not my true name. Only after ten snows
Was I, a boy, ready to climb
Alone to the mountain, to lie with no motion
On the stone-bed I made, no food, no water, heart open
To vision. To float as in vision and see
At last, at last, my Guardian Spirit
Come to protect me and give forth my true name.
..."

Robert Penn Warren




Named after his great-grandfathers, with a modern twist, to Veikka.
Named after someone who climbed K2 in summer of 1994 and Mount Everest in spring 1997 (without bottled oxygen).

He is five years old.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Fire in ice



At this moment it is amazing 66ºF or 19ºC and we can't believe it.
It will pass, but it will also return.

(Blogger has been translated to Finnish. I can live with that, but the spellchecking is also Finnish...)

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Saturday, April 7, 2007