Letters of the President
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...
December letter 2025
December letter 2025 There is rain, there is fog, there is sunshine some hours a day, and with sunshine temperature paradoxically falls below zero centigrade. This is November in Norway! We picked the remaining mushrooms from one of our favourite spots in the...
November letter 2025
November letter 2025 There is rain, there is fog, there is sunshine some hours a day, and with sunshine temperature paradoxically falls below zero centigrade. This is November in Norway! We picked the remaining mushrooms from one of our favourite spots in the...
October letter 2025
October letter 2025 Can you imagine a bonzai tree? Shaped by clever human hands and still rooted in and nurtured by the soil of global nature. Hence nature and culture combine in a construction where the one is as essential as the other. The tree is harnessed and...