Letters of the President
August Letter 2026
August letter 2026 It lights up at night From selected windows in a tall building in Oslo, the lights are on, and when darkness arrive, the word «TILLIT» stands out in all its splendour. TILLIT means TRUST. How extremely interesting then that this piece...
July letter 2026
July letter 2026 The Porto Proclamation Rights, justice and euphoria One may see these items as sides of the same issue, which I shall not dispute. Nevertheless, we must realize that rights are constructed through time consuming political and bureaucratic...
June letter 2026
June letter 2026 First part of the presidential talk EFS, LisbonWhen looking forward – Dear all! - and once again welcome to my June letter of 2026. A letter that is almost identical to the first stanzas of the presidential address I delivered in Lisbon at our 18th...
May Letter 2026
Im wunderschönen Monat Mai,Als alle Knospen sprangen,Da ist in meinem HerzenDie Liebe aufgegangen. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai,Als alle Vögel sangen,Da hab’ ich ihr gestandenMein Sehnen und Verlangen.In the wondrous month of May,When all the buds burst into bloom,Then...
April Letter 2026
April letter 2026 Once I had a conversation with the volcano Hekla at Island. The two of us compared strengths. In the beginning she found this utterly strange and said: I change the surface of the globe, by me the mountains disappear and hills arise where prior no...
March Letter 2026
March letter 2026 Maybe springtime is the most inspiring time of the year. Everything lights up, even our minds, if we let them.I walked to the harbour and listened to the birds cheering from the bushes by the sidewalk. There was sun, by the bay there was a breeze,...
February letter 2026
February letter 2026 Through my window I see a mixture of snow and rain falling almost vertically from the sky. It is time for rubber footwear to step safely into the mudlike mixture of snow, water and pollution. Winking though the falling drops and crystals is the...
January letter 2026
January letter 2026 First of all: Happy new year to all who read this letter! While winter is holding is white and frozen hand over all nature around us, we can imagine the majority of life on the Northern hemisphere are in different ways hibernating. It is like a...