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Advent Calendar 2024 – Day 8

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Day 8

In the lack of sunlight, may I offer you an artificial moon? My city of Turku has a light show called Path of Light that goes along the river. Today, Sunday is the last day. This moon is on one of the bridges. This bridge is close to the city theatre, and they will be having The Adams Family musical next year in the Autumn, so it’s part of the path. The moon showed shadow figures once in a while. The Path of Light was last year, too, but I missed it then. It was a lovely evening walk in these dark times. A shame they don’t keep it longer. It was only for 4 days. It won’t replace the sunlight, but it would have been a little lighter outside.

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Bloganuary: Dull family tree

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I’ve never done any family tree research. I haven’t had any contact with my relatives. My family tree is dull; that’s what I know. The relatives on my mother’s side were mostly money hungry and full of themselves. The relatives on my father’s side are better. About three years ago (or 4), I found out I have a cousin. She’s the only one I have any contact with. My cousin also has a sister, but she lives with her family in another city. My dad has a half-sister that he sometimes calls. She’s over 90 years old. It’s been a while since we met last. It was mostly because of covid.

That’s how far back my family tree can go, to the present. But I have photos of a tree. Enjoy the pictures of the tree in the front yard of my dad’s building. It was supposed to be taken down, but they haven’t yet.

Advent calendar Box 8

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advent calendar 8Today it was flag day for Finland’s most famous composer, Jean Sibelius. His most popular piece is Finlandia. It’s still varnish looking to this day and so is the monument in Helsinki. Even if I’ve been to the city a lot of times, I still haven’t seen it up close. We have driven past it but that’s all.

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Jean Sibelius Monument in Helsinki, Finland ©pixabay

It’s very popular among tourists and especially in the summer season. So if you ever visit the capital or Finland in general, that’s one thing to see. One of these days I will too.