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Ensilumi

In Helsinki the first snow that stays usually comes around the 18th of November, but the false starts arrive earlier. A short letter about how even a thin first dusting...

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The City Gets One Step Quieter

In October the terrace tables in Helsinki go in, the clocks go back on the last Sunday of the month, and the street outside the shop grows quieter. A short...

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Korvapuusti 101: The Bun Called a Slapped Ear

In a Finnish café at four in the afternoon, the counter tells you what time of day it is. Filter coffee stands in a tall metal thermos. Beside it sits...

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The Valley That Was Born in a Year of War

Open the first page of a Moomin book — any of them — and you already know where you are. A round blue house. A garden that has gone slightly...

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Three Weeks of Red

The light in Helsinki changed this week. Not the temperature — that has been sliding for a while — but the angle. In August the sun comes into the shop...

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