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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...

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...