Hello my fellow Montanan! How are things in your neck of the woods? :)

The perfect book experience? The book would not only have to entertain me and keep my interest, but would also have to teach me something. I want a book to open up new worlds, new ways of thinking and understandin​g. I have a thirst for knowledge and truth and books are just one medium of finding these.

please excuse me for the short message, i am still very sleepy (adjusting to a new work schedule that has me coming in at 7 am!) but felt compelled to reply to you as soon as possible. so, hello! you seem infinitely interesting!​ let's correspond!

That's where is gets a little interesting.​.. I've got support, great support and some guidance in what I've been doing... Where my problem sits is in myself.  I'm not totally convinced I'm really doing what I want yet.  I like what I do, I believe in it, I just doubt my abilities...​ but I feel this will change as I gain more experience.  It can't be scary new forever.

Hello,
Yeah, spokane's not my favorite place in the world, but I think it's where I need to be at the moment... I've got a great job (and a two year contract) here so I'm making the very best of it that I can.  Oh! And I'm loving the Trogdor quote!  Thanks for the note!

Hello Nathan, it's nice you wrote back.

What all are you growing in your garden? Our garden has suffered of cold times too, nothing much can be seen yet. I've also done very little for it, as i returned a week ago from a study exchange in Sweden and after a week i'll leave for a month-long journey in France and England (by train). It seems to be difficult for me to stay the short finnish summer in one place, close to the garden...

I didn't know that Ursula Le Guin's essays have also been published, i'd love to read! Obviously they aren't available in the selections of the finnish libraries, i should find out. It's hard to name one favourite among her books, but "The Dispossessed"​, which i read at first and later again, 765is somehow special for me and so are many short stories but i can't remember their names...

I hope to hear from you again when you have time, maybe some time we'll get to the environmenta​l issues going on. Take care!

Hello Nathan! Thank you for the message you left on my wall over three months ago. As you see i'm not frequent in any way, the least on this site. Anyway, it was nice to hear from you! Are you digging your garden plot these days? Please feel free to ask anything you might wonder about sustainabili​­ty movements in Finland and i'll tell you what i can. Often it really feels so frustratingl​­y little, the big lines are going so much against them. Sometimes i'd also just like to escape to my garden - and sometimes i feel like it's indded an escape and too small-scale to bring as urgent changes as needed. I'd be also very interested to hear about the good things going in USA you mentioned! It'd certainly be interesting to communicate more with you. It was also nice to notice you like books of Ursula Le Guin, is there any you like particularly​­ much? -Anni

Yes! I really, really like Woolf, although I hugely prefer her criticism to her fiction. Last autumn I read two volumes of Leonard Woolf's autobiograph​y, and found those to be v interesting too.

I'm reading a collection of philosophica​l essays by Alan Watts right now... and I'm about to start vol 1 of the Diary of Anais Nin. What about you?

Hey
I'm back. But only occasionally​. I won't check this every day, just so you know. :) Where in the States do you live?

(wow this is long)

my barn is only 30 mins away but it's very Montana-esqu​e. People ride to 7-11, ride on the Native American burial ground trails, etc. Malibu gets pretty rural as well, surprisingly​ enough. It's built up outside of CA to be this gross, high-end beach town, but it's actually very natural and undeveloped.​ When people build new houses they have to install pipes and electric, becasue most of the land hasn't even been developed, and it backs up to a state park.

That was lengthy, but there's a lot to say I guess. I could go on forever. In fact, I might be doing an independent study on it next year :)