![]() ![]() ![]() It reminded me of a time when I spent a couple 10-day periods on Whidbey Island on Puget Sound for graduate school residencies. ![]() Isn’t that the longing of each day? Particularly in these days of Covid stress and fear and grief, these days of political angst, of economic angst, of division. This word, or to be more honest, this definition, has been rolling around in my mind ever since I heard it. Ratiljóst, enough light to find your way by. Or “lagom,” the Swedish word for “not too much, not too little just right.” Or “sisu,” Finnish for grit in the face of great adversity. Like “hygge,” the Danish word for coziness. He told us it means having “enough light to find your way by.” He likened it to other words from Northern Europe that have served a good purpose among us in recent years in terms of expanding our sense of how to live. In his sermon a few weeks ago, which my husband and I watched on YouTube, the minister of our church spoke of an Icelandic term that I’d never heard before. ![]()
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