Background

Or no. This was not the beginning. It all started on a farm on an island in the lovely archipelago in the southwestern part of Finland. I grew up there, and my childhood was fantastic. Gardening, building, spending lots of time in the sea, exploring the woods, climbing and poking and learning about life with more animals than people. Fruitful was also doing autopsys on snakes, cremating conedummies, drying birdwings and making pearl necklaces of moose excrement. (More about this some other night...) Now, putting it like this seems as if there was also a lot of discusting stuff going on. For a child that was hardly discusting, just endlessly fascinating. The feelings and the relationship that exploring gave birth to laid the foundation for my conception of the world.

At this point I see myself in the mirror of society, and feel that I´m supposed to be house-trained and that I should stop showing interest in self-evident, commonplace or ugly issues.
So, I´ve started this page for reflecting upon things that aren´t completely house-trained. Possibly and hopefully this could be a forum for discussion, mainly for and around matters concerning animals in human culture. I will use this as a visible process that anyone can take part in. I value your opinion and comment, whoever you are. Welcome to join in shedding skin.