Seasonal doings and thinkings
Budding
Last updated: 16 october 2025tags: personal
Watching the seasons go by is something i love, and feel a lot of things about. Instead of seeing the year as a strict schedule a river running one way, it can sometimes be refreshing to think of it as a constantly changing sea. Or something like that. Here are some of my thoughts and what I've done this season!
Autumn 2025
The maple outside my window has turned yellow, and there are heaps of colorful leaves on the ground. The days get shorter, the weather colder, and summer clothes get stuffed away to the back of the closet. Autumn can be a very bittersweet moment. While it is the end of the fleeting bright, warm months, I am trying to see it as a new beginning, too. While you can focus on that it’s becoming cold and rainy and dark, you can also turn that around to see warm handknitted gloves, and cozy evenings playing board games while the storm rages outside, and welcoming warm light shining from windows. All things have a light and a dark side, and that’s what I’m trying to learn to see.
School’s started up again, and while most of my brain is occupied by the thought of “can’t I get out of here soon”, I’m trying to enjoy my time as best as I can. Sometimes I don’t succeed and I have a bad day. But I suppose you need those too, otherwise you wouldn’t enjoy the good ones as much. I’ve gone to Tracon in Tampere. It was my first ever convention, and I had such a lovely time! Right now I have a lot of fun stuff in front of me, too. For example, I’ll be going to the book convention in Helsinki this year for the first time, and I’m really excited! I’ll also be at Kulturkarnevalen in November. Although it does kind of feel like I don’t really have any free weekends until winter. But hey, am I not writing this thing so that I wouldn’t look at each week and month individually?
I’ve been reading a lot. I’ve recently finished Howl’s moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones. I’ve also bought myself two more volumes of Delicious in Dungeon (I’m up to seven now), and the Nimona comic. I feel like I’ve really fallen back in love with reading this year. It’s wonderful to be able to get swallowed into a book. Speaking of books, I’ve also been thinking a lot about making my own story. But however much I try, my ideas seem to not fit me. I suppose I still have much time. Things don’t need to happen the moment I think of them.
Halloween’s coming up too! Spooky stuff. It gives me very nice feelings. Watching horror movies, dark evenings, candy… It’s nice. Even if I am very easily scared! I am still on my mission to be more in the moment. Maybe the new season can help me? We will only have to see. I do not have any pictures from anything i've done this season really. I've been taking less and less pictures. I simply say "oh, that's really pretty!" and then i keep it as a little treasure in my brain. I think that's a very nice thing to do to be more in the moment :)
Summer 2025
I’ve been very busy this summer. I often am. I’ve worked a lot, cause I’m moving out next summer and I want to have a little ground under my feet. I’ll of course have to get a job in the city once I get there, too, but it’s good to start in time. Also saving up for when I need to get a driver’s license, even if I’m going to wait with getting a car as long as I possibly can.
Other than the boring stuff, I’ve been to Norway for the first time in my life. I visited Oslo and Stavanger, both gorgeous cities. I loved the natural history museum in Oslo, that was definitely the best part of the trip to me. We traveled a lot with train. It was very surprising how many tunnels there were, and the landscapes were breathtaking. I was mostly inspired to visit Norway because of their walkable cities. And I must say they didn’t dissapoint! You could walk or cycle practically anywhere, there were trams and buses everywhere, and what made me squeal with excitement was a grassy house. Yes, it was on the outside of a shopping mall and I am not a fan of consumtion culture, but it was really cool.
I really appreciated Klimahuset at the natural history museum. I am a climate nerd so of course I did. But it really opened my eyes to what is happening and what will happen if we don’t stop this awful fenomena. It put it under a different light, to experience it first hand.
Also dinosaurs. And a lot of other critters. Everything was interesting there and I had the best sandwich I think I’ve ever eaten there. I really recommend it. Museums are wonderful.
I’ve also spent some time at our cottage. Really nice to get away from everything for a while. I really appreciate lakes and birch leaves and sunset. There’s something special about cooling off after a hot day in a car, washing off the dust of the road, feeling the water against your skin. Almost a religious experience. Really like it.
Although, this heat has been almost unbearable. Over a week of 32 degrees in the shade, no thanks. It’s not normal, and especially not normal for it to be this humid. But I’m not giving up hope. I believe we all have the powers within us to stand together in these hard times. I believe, even if that hope fades sometimes, that it will become better.
One thing I’m looking forward to is harvesting. Now in late summer and then in fall, everything gets harvested. The fields of barley and oat, blueberries, blackcurrant, apples, raspberries… The list goes on. Personally I love walking in the forest picking blueberries. It must be my favorite thing to do during the harvest season. Then we make jam and juice and fill the freezer with goods we enjoy all winter. It’s beautiful.
All in all, I’ve had a great summer. A good balance between taking it easy and doing things. Soon school is starting up again. That has of course both positive and negative sides. We will simply see where autumn takes me. Once it arrives, of course.
