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Marjut Uotila's avatar

Oh, jäin ihan haukkomaan henkeä lukiessa. Ja pelkäsin että tässä on joku happy ending, kun oikeasti ei ole.

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Elina Haverinen's avatar

Jos kynä on ollut niin terävä, että jää haukkomaan henkeään, niin ei paljon paremmin voisi olla. Kiitos! Niin, ei siihen ainakaan helppoa loppua yleensä ole, vaikka sitä niin paljon myydään. Ja silti, jossain odottaa jotain muuta. Silti.

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Marjut Uotila's avatar

Ihan kuin olisit hetkisen vieraillut pääni sisällä. Paitsi että se on lammasfarmi.

Uskon että palaan tähän tekstiin vielä moneen kertaan.

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Elina Haverinen's avatar

Toivon, että se antaa tilaa jollekin sellaiselle äänelle, jonka täytyy tulla kuulluksi ❤️

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Lisa Bolin 🌸's avatar

Beautiful. I have tears. 💖 you’ve reached a heart place that’s familiar yet a little untended if late. Thank you, my friend 💟

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Elina Haverinen's avatar

Lisa, lovely you! That means the world to me! Thank you for reading with such a flucking full heart! ❤️❤️

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Maria Glymph's avatar

Loved the 'setting it down gently' and other imagery. I also applaud the place 'you are' as the between the old and 'the unnamed next.' You could have gone elsewhere, but the strength of the piece is in where you took it. And your offer is beautiful.

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Elina Haverinen's avatar

This was one of those pieces that almost wrote itself. I had the image of the soup scene and followed the fog from there. Even writing about these in-between places feels like naming the unnamed.

I’m so glad it spoke to you. Thank you for reading with such care!

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Kay Stratton's avatar

I needed to read this today, Elina -- I'm feeling in some weird middle place, it's either that or I'm at the end... a bit samey, circling, nothing exciting on the horizon, waking at 5 every morning with whirling thoughts (usually angry about something and then having a hundred conversations in my head, so no chance of sleep). But maybe it is just a waiting room... I'm a bit bored of it, though. They need better magazines, nice coffee machine. 😉

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Elina Haverinen's avatar

Ah Kay, you brought in the one thing that piece was missing—the boring. The fucking boring! The Pierces have a song called Boring. My life has never involved Dom Pérignon or Dolce & Gabbana (if you listen to the song, you'll know what I mean), but I used to listen to it on repeat. It really captured that feeling of nothing exciting on the horizon.

I’m so happy this touched you. Thank you ❤️❤️

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Kay Stratton's avatar

I’ll check it out. I’m sure it will speak to me ❤️

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Elina Haverinen's avatar

I hope it does 😊 Or you might end up thinking “What’s this shit Elina was listening to” 🤭😂 You never know, music is so personal!

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Kay Stratton's avatar

Haha. That’s so true. I do have odd tastes

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Elina Haverinen's avatar

Same here!

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Jayne Marshall's avatar

Lovely descriptions - your (multilingual) specialty. Cloudy and soupy, but with a clear views of hope 😊

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Elina Haverinen's avatar

Absolutely!

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Elina Haverinen's avatar

Thank you, Jayne! 🥰 Yes, there's hope, and there's always more, but I think the paradox of the middle land is that the less you lean on hope, and the more you accept the cloudy and soupy as it is, the sooner it disappears.

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Jayne Marshall's avatar

Very true, another of life's/our mind's neat little tricks…

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