Minutes.fi http://www.minutes.fi Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:17:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://www.minutes.fi/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cropped-minutes_favi-32x32.png Minutes.fi http://www.minutes.fi 32 32 La-di-da http://www.minutes.fi/themes/september/la-di-da/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:00:41 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=5478 I have a favorite beach. It’s located by the Adriatic Sea next to a mountain and a large national park. In summer, I visit weekly, and I always feel so vital after spending some time in the water. Like every cell in my body found its place and purpose. The summer ease. Our eternal craving […]

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]]> Grow Your Own http://www.minutes.fi/themes/september/grow-your-own/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:55:50 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=5486 It’s the most rewarding feeling to have something on your plate that you grew yourself. Even a few herb bushes can bring so much joy. The luxury is of country life is to pick veg from the garden for every mealtime. Things are different in the city, but I do have some herbs and leaves […]

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]]> The Good Oil http://www.minutes.fi/themes/little-luxuries/the-good-oil/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 07:00:46 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=4589 Pressing new oil is the highlight of late fall. With the seasonal ingredients becoming more substantial and dense, olives still carry the bright flavor of summer in them. Growing on a south-facing slope next to our house, our olives are usually harvested in November, depending on when they are ripe enough but not too. All […]

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]]> Never enough http://www.minutes.fi/themes/summer-ease/never-enough/ Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:00:52 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=3801 “We need the tonic of wildness… At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” – Henry David Thoreau in […]

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]]> Pantelleria http://www.minutes.fi/themes/sending-postcards/pantelleria/ Thu, 01 Jun 2017 04:58:31 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=3773 “We have come a long way south and it feels we are closer to Africa than Europe now. It is afternoon on the island of Pantelleria, and to be precise about the location, we are halfway between Sicily and Tunisia. Just back from Specchio di Venere, a crater lake, where made mud body masks and […]

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