Thursday, February 6, 2020

Himalayandream in Februari 2020

Anna Kempe learned tibetan writing together with a young man. Together they translated the Bible and had their own christian magazine.  Anna would certainly had been on Instagram also had it been possible in her lifetime.

Anna started as a schoolteacker in Kronoby here on West Coast, Finland. But when she had worked as teacher for about seven years, she heard about Tibet in China from the priest at that that time in the Church of Kronoby.

She was not afraid to take on a new project and first thing she started with was applying for a missionary education programme, first in Helsingfors and then in London. The education period was around three years before she could travel to India. She could not travel all the way to Tibet, but in the region around Darjeeling in northern India, between Nepal and Bhutan, the people in the mountin villages used several languages, inclusive tibetan. The region vas a valley where people living in mountainvillages higher up in the Himalayas passed by with things they wanted to sell or had bought.

Himalayandream


Friday, January 24, 2020

Ocean colours

Anna Kempe travelled four times in her life over the Indian Ocean. That is why I have started thinking how she experienced the colours of the Sea. She writes she is reading and writes letters together with a friend on deck. But she must have lifted her eyes from the text in the book in beteween. I wish I could have been in her shoes, timetravelled a bit with her. And seen the colours of the sea. Aqaurelle painting was not her thing, I guess. But it is a hobby I have. Or  would like to start with again.

Thursday, January 16, 2020

The English Club

The English Club är ett skrivprojekt enligt Anna Kempes pedagogik. Handarbeta och prata på bara. Skriva brev hem till Finland. Det sistnämnda gjorde hon på svenska. Till tidskrifter och till familjen.

Learning languages is easy. Just chat while making handicraft, listen to music, read books.

Anna Kempe worked in India using mostly English and local languages. She wrote her letters to Finland in swedish to small christian magazines and her family.



Friday, December 20, 2019

Shangri-La

...existerar egentligen inte, det är drömmen om Himalaya, snarare än verklighet. Uttrycket har använts i en resenovell av en författare jag inte just nu minns namnet på, med det representerar musik, kläder, kultur, i en obestämd tid och plats. Inte i nutid, men kan användas ibland i klädsel av pop musiker eller sådana som studerar traditionell musik av olika slag. På Anna Kempes tid i Indien (slutet av 1940-talet, som även var de sista åren för hennes yrkesverksamma liv som missionär där) fick folk vid hovet och munk klostren ge sig på flykt från tibetanska kloster och palats. Om vi skulle prata om Shangri-La som en modetrend, så är det alltså fragment, minnen från den här tiden som inspirerat dagens Youtubare och musikstuderande. 

Shangri La som julpynt får vi väl ändå roa oss med en gråmulen Decemberdag, utan att det stör någon. En annan skapar i återanvänt läder eller syr i jeanstyg superprydliga make-up väskor. Lyckligtvis kan ingen anklaga oss som vill vara kreativa och leka de jobbar för franska modehus och planerar vad catwalk modellerna ska gå omkring i någon gång i april, maj...

Anna och hennes vän skulle förstås som vanligt bara funderat på sin tryckpress och sin bibelöversättning. Nästa nummer av lokalbladet. Kolumner och artiklar.


Making Christmas presents in various material here, since we have a really gray Decemberday here, after a short spell of sun yesterday. I try to finns the colours of Shangri-La in my wardrobe. Anna Kempe, I figure would have been busy with her newspaper press, and local news a day like this. In practise she was not only nurse and midwife, also a "sporty spice" kind of a woman and a reporter / journalist. English teacher. 

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Dooars

Anna Kempe och de finländska missionärerna mellan Nepal och Bhutan har fått en mening i Vagabond-tidningen. Det är stort tycker jag. Se Vagabond nr. 6/7 2019 s. 104

Monday, October 21, 2019

Monday, September 16, 2019

Caritas

Read in English about Caritas.org or about Libraries in Finland.

Read more about Anna Kempe.

Katia

(I will after all continue with a new-old hobby, knitting. My grandmother was always the expert, I was thinking mother also is so much better, that I will continue only as photographer of her work. But then I saw a for me new kind of yarn in a shop. Site is with langue change possibilities. For example English or Spanish)

Seems like a lesson or website that Anna Kempe could have planned had she been able to use internet in her days.