3.12 Basic Human Truths, Healing, and an Art Evening

Good morning — Back at the lake — Some basic truths about healing and human life — Speaking from experience — Bad advice and good advice — Getting out of the house — Active outdoors — Nutrition — Health and happiness — Depressed, down in spirits, in despair — What will never help — When summer got here — Daily activity — You can’t get to a better place by only thinking — Choosing activities you enjoy — Moping around — Not making light of difficulties — The bottom line — Dwelling on past events — To do so for some time may be healthy — But only for some time — The first step — Admitting there is a problem — Endless things to choose from — We must use our bodies and full physique — Staying truthful — Things nearly all adults carry around with them every day and night — This shared human experience — You become part of the club — Incredible beauty — Incredible pain — Breaking the cycle — Rowing and swimming — Lakes — Blue-green algae — Some creative work every day — Towards a better, solid, happy future — Lake all to myself — “Mirror-calm” / “Peilityyni” — Art evening with filmmaker cousin Matti Harju and composer Jarmo Kämäräinen — Untangling knots — Art totally necessary for human existence — Exhibition (Ars 108) — Dance performance — Composition “Autuaita ovat autuaat” (“Blessed/Blissful Are the Blissful/Blessed”) on the accordion by composer, performing musician, visual artist, and organic farmer Kusti Vuorinen — Took me somewhere else — On Spotify and YouTube — An old factory converted into a performance and exhibition space — Old plushy chairs — Lovely-feeling place — Coming episodes — Empathy for anyone struggling with difficult emotions — The right balance — Positive but truthful — Destructive false positivity — Looking in the mirror — Never just others, never just you — Both — Floating on a pineapple