Jansson

I went to see the Tove Jansson exhibition at the Ateneum Art Museum.

Did you know that Tove Jansson is not only mother of the Moomin, but also a extremely gifted artist?

Swedish-speaking Finnish author Tove Jansson was the creator of the Moomins, troll creatures which resemble hippos. The first Moomin book appeared in 1945.

Many Japanese like Sweden and Finland because of Tove Jansson, the Swede-Finn writer of the Moomintroll fantasy books.

I still want to see Sweden and Finland, as one of my favourite fantasy authors is Tove Jansson of Moomintroll fame. It fascinates me that as a Germanic tongue, Swedish has tones and has syllables ending with voiced plosives, as the word "god" for "good." Written Finnish is reminiscent of Japanese in Roman letters.

In the grey-sky morning of the 24th of March of 2023, Greg and I, both Filipinos, discussed some matters at the teahouse, whilst I had a cold Strawberry Oat Matcha Latte, and Greg had his coffee with cream and sugar in a big white mug and a croissant on a little plate. The athletic-looking, head-shaven Filipino, Rodney, was eating a sandwich at a table near a window. Chen, the military-looking, stocky Chinese was sitting by the counter. From my red Eddie Bauer waist pack, I took out and showed Greg my two mini dictionaries of Esperanto and Tagalog. We talked about a lot of things, including my predilection for the Finnish language and the Swede-Finn writer Tove Jansson, languages including Spanish that we learned in school, mestizos like Boris Yeltsin in Eastern Europe, Tibetans, and Elon Musk's vision for Mars as a second home for humanity.