You are My Everyday

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #121, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new NordLetter will land in your inbox every Sunday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read previous editions here. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed. You can reach out to me by replying to this mail. I am also posting on Mastodon. Back when we were living in Matinkylä, the Iso Omena library was just across the road from us. The library was open on all days, including the weekends, though the opening hours were different. It was easy to get to the library. That meant I was there every week for one reason or the other. The closest public library we have here is the Arabianranta Library. It is closed on Sundays, and on Saturdays it closes at 16:00. It does not have any meeting rooms or spaces to sit either. It is beautiful, mind you. But it is also more than a kilometre from home. And it has just meant that I have…