Letters of the President
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...
September letter 2025
September letter 2025 We are in a month of change. Green turns to almost all colors of the rainbow. The maple tree in our garden is like a bouquet of exploding shades of red, yellow, orange and green. Multiple mushroom of multiple colors shoot out from the...
December Letter
December letter Texcoco, Mexico Jan 7th 2025 By Dec. 31st, 2024 became part of history. 2025 Is still newborn. In the immediate...
November Letter
November letter In my childhood we had a song for each month of the year, and I am certain that this is a more or less worldwide phenomenon. The Norwegian November song in my English translation goes like this: November is so sad and grey, but useful...
October letter
October letter Norway, November 5th 2024 October has come to its conclusion, winter is budding on the Northern hemisphere, strong winds are roaring the West- and North coast of Norway, and in Spain rain falls like rivers to the ground, causing hundreds of...
September letter
September letter Norway, October 7th 2024 In a time of increasing violence where aggression is hard to separate from defense, it feels like many ideals are put aside to the benefit of more primitive instincts in the human psyche. We know from widespread...
August letter
August letter Norway, August 28th 2024 We are leaving behind the month of softness in the Northern Hemisphere and a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. Much is in the air, though not all of it brings joy and relief. We are approaching September...