Awaken us with unease, impatience and demands!

By Freddy Fjellheim / This essay was first published in the Norwegian periodical Vinduet No. 1/2014.

This is probably a helpless attempt. I am admittedly no spring chicken, and I neither speak nor write in the language of youth. My children claim that I would choose to speak latin if I could (the truth is that I couldn’t if I wanted to). I like to speak to young people, but preferably to those who speak up against me, who can handle being listened to and who ask the open-hearted questions.

Because?

Big things are happening. In the next four, five years the world and our homesteads will be in need of ingenuity, deep seeded humbleness and poignant courage. We who use the freedom of speech have to think new thoughts and bring more warmth into our languages.

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