Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Returning from Finland I had to pay ~75€ for overweight luggage, not in small part due to the various books I received as gifts from Finnish authors I'd translated into English in recent years 070 7
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Photos I took with a film camera I found at our cabin and that probably hadn't been touched since the 90's 1523 52
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Walking around Manhattan with Reverdy & Rimbaud in my bag, translating Finnish poetry from an unpublished manuscript and enjoying the spring weather; all and all what I consider a productive day 1140 14
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025youtu.be/tuUNHUvvb44?...youtu.beViolin Sonata No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016: III. Adagio ma non tantoYouTube video by Giuliano Carmignola - Topic 040 4
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Happy Valentine's Day! Schubert played by a husband and wife duo youtu.be/fv0uDH0XCrU?...youtu.beSchubert: Fantasien D.934 András Schiff and Yuuko ShiokawaYouTube video by amadeus 030 3
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Been enjoying Carmignola's Bach recently m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...m.youtube.comBach: 6 Suites a Violoncello Solo Senza Basso - YouTube 060 6
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Reading about Tibetan lojong practice, seems highly worthwhile 130 3
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Been finding it very useful to read several translations of the same poem. The differences become a sort of koan that stays with me, even and perhaps especially if I can also read the original 1130 13
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025youtu.be/bxQSECCetoQ?...youtu.beDebussy: 2 Arabesques, CD 74: No. 2, Allegretto scherzandoYouTube video by Angela Hewitt - Topic 030 3
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025It's about this much snow here but it's sticking and boosting the little light that we get. Walks hit many times harder than they would otherwise in terms of energy and sheer awakeness provided 0111 11
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025The lion was saving him from the pillar that was being placed right where he was napping when the volcano suddenly erupted and covered all 2241 24
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024My landlord's cat likes to come hang out in my room. Here he's trying to make me sleepy while I was reading 090 9
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024"It's remarkable. When I told you how little time I had to write & that I should change my life in order to write more, I was nonetheless writing all the time; now that I have designed my life around writing, I barely write at all; in fact this letter already is the most I've written since I moved. 190 9
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The disciple walked out to the verandah and found the master eating rice shaped exactly like in sashimi but without the fish. What is this, a new exercise in austerity, the disciple asked. The master pointed at the nearby temple cat who was in the process of gulping down the last piece of salmon 0333 33
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024youtu.be/STugQ0X1NoI?...youtu.be10cc - I'm Not In LoveYouTube video by 10ccVEVO 040 4
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024From the diary of a Finnish poet: “We’re adrift in time, especially when anchored in place. At the bus stop I travel in childhood, in the future, in the words my friend said last week. The bus is late; time dilates, expands in all directions; my raft wanders in the cross tide. 181 8
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024A photo I took through the window of my family's sauna in Finland c. 2018 1302 30
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 12/02/2024The white burns the eyes. For the third week in a row Jim Halpert, now 50, is mapping out routes of ascend in his mind, stroking his graying beard. Sometimes he wonders whether Gangkhar Puensum, his decade-long obsession, even really exists. Perhaps it is every hill we die on 0110 11
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 10/02/2024I open the door for you at the mall, but notice it's raining outside. Full of worry for you despite your being a stranger I close the door in your face, pleading, "don't go out, no, no, no, please, you'll get wet, for heaven's sake", determined to keep the door shut until it has stopped raining 180 8
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 17/01/2024A great commotion: the bocce court is iced over, the balls are sliding all over the place. "What is this, curling?" the count is shouting. Giant cauldrons in the kitchen are boiling water to bring to thaw the ice, but impatiently the game proceeds in a hopeless, escalating mess as tensions rise 0140 14
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 03/01/2024Spitting facts like a cowboy into a saloon spittoon 080 8
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 31/12/2023The butterfly in the new logo is an homage to a butterfly that was found frozen in the orbit during routine maintenance on the ISS. It landed on the elbow of a Lithuanian astronaut. The butterfly was named Icarus, for having ventured too far into the blue sky like its mythological counterpart 1273 27
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 28/12/2023open.spotify.com/album/0M3Szx...open.spotify.com二鴨田 潤 · Ep · 2020 · 6 songs. 030 3
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 18/12/2023The disciple decided to get the master's take on a classic. He filled a cup half way with tea, held it up to the master and asked whether it was half full or half empty. "It's full enough," said the master, took it and started sipping 060 6
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 15/12/2023A Finnish poet to his translator in a letter: "I bought a mechanical keyboard. I researched it for months, reading reviews, endless reddit threads. The guilt about the cost held me back until now, but I decided it'd be worth it to buy it to finally be free of this obsession." 1110 11
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 14/12/2023Today at 4:20PM EST you're allowed to stand 5 minutes by the window to admire the evening light on the buildings and branches 1131 13
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 08/12/2023If the tribe tried to do this to me I'd simply run off into the jungle with my torch ablaze and start my own civilization 040 4
Härkönen @yokaihainen.bsky.social · 01/12/2023The mold from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind probably smells really good 160 6
