Letters of the President
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
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...