Flambé

Leevi visited us and we made Sunday pizzas of cold-risen dough and baked them on a steel stone. Flambéed bananas with vanilla ice cream for a dessert.

Sisu the Löwchen was picked up in the evening, he was a good boy and very enthusiastic and adaptive dog. And very small!  He poses in the extra shot.


Sisu is a Finnish concept described as stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience, and hardiness and is held by Finns themselves to express their national character. It is generally considered not to have a literal equivalent in English.Sisu is a grim, gritty, white-knuckle form of courage that is presented typically in situations where success is against the odds. It expresses itself in taking action against the odds and displaying courage and resoluteness in the face of adversity, in other words, deciding on a course of action and then sticking to that decision, even despite repeated failures. It is in some ways similar to equanimity, with the addition of a grim kind of stress management.

Sisu has been described as the word that explains Finland, and the Finns' favourite word—"the most wonderful of all our words. Sisu has been described as so essential to the Finnish national character that to be a real Finn you must have it: willpower, tenacity, persistency.



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