My long-awaited book, NOTES FOR THE AURORA SOCIETY, was finally published.

Many of you have read excerpts from it over the past few years over at Dkos.  Those are located here and here and here.

The book can be purchased here.

Why Finland?  First, I married a Finn. My daughter was born in Finland.  I lived there from May 2001 - June 2004.  From May 1 to Sept. 14, 2003 I walked the length of Finland (see map below). It was a 1500-mile journey whose goal was to uncover, for myself, the Finnish connection to nature and my personal connection to a land that could not be more different than the one I grew up in - but that was now the homeland of my wife, the birthplace of my daughter and a place I had come to know and love...kind of.  The result, will be a book - due out in 2006 - based on that walk (yes, I will make a big annoucement when it is published and expect each and every one of you to buy 150 copies each) entitled NOTES FOR THE AURORA SOCIETY .  

HERE is an excerpt I posted a few weeks ago.

All photos mine unless otherwise noted - and if any of them are too large, let me know and I will rescale.

Enjoy.

G8 Gleneagles 2005 agreement

1. We face serious and linked challenges in tackling climate change, promoting
clean energy and achieving sustainable development globally.

This is rather long my friends, but worth the read.

There was a store at Juorkuna.  A square, yellow building with a sloping roof and newspapers in the windows.  Behind it was an abandoned wooden house painted a deep, rusty, red.  Buttercup and red clover came up through the cracks in the asphalt.  Geraniums grew in a long, white plastic window-box that hung just below the windows.  They blossomed a brilliant red.  The rye in the fields was not yet ripe.