4.6 Warmth, Light, and Freedom of Expression

Year 2022 — On a train — Warmth — Finland has two great festivals of light and warmth — Midsummer and Christmas — Human warmth is a miracle — The most difficult thing to get across in art — Harder than comedy — Everything needs to be just right — Sense of balance and lightness — The Finnish Christmas song “Varpunen jouluaamuna” (“Sparrow on Christmas Morning”) — Prose translation in the season 4 book — Upcoming books and updates — The season 3 book will be special — Now all episodes play on all devices — A lot of catching up — Several books in the first half of 2022 — Collection of short stories — Hardcovers — Excellent printing — A tremendous change — Avenues of expression — Before the Internet and social media — We used to live in a world of far more limited freedom — Trilingual (Finnish, Swedish, English) announcement (Orivesi) — Algorithms — Editorial process — Nobody was in control of their own words — People have largely forgotten this — The bad old days — Everything was controlled by gatekeepers — The freedom of expression we now have — Struggle of thousands of years — Any threat to this needs to be fought — Always have final cut (David Lynch) — The rest of my backlog — After that, whole new fresh projects — Creations from times of searching — Different and distinct — These times — Blind faith in life working out — Even when it makes no sense to believe that — Light on the horizon