On his sailing trip, Leo the little wanderer arrives at a rocky bay and disembarks on a deserted pier. It belongs to two towns that are feuding furiously with one another.
The angry mayors won’t allow the traveler inside their stone walls. But luckily for Leo, between the two towns lies a piece of land that nobody owns. It is just big enough for his neat little cabin and garden, where many flowers bloom and the beautiful sounds of his violin fill the air.
On warm nights, people climb onto the walls together to admire the view and listen to the music and the sea.
“Would it be better, after all, to tear down the walls that separate us?” the townsfolk begin to wonder.
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Pieni purjehtija Lauri saapuu matkallaan kivikkoiseen lahteen ja nousee riitaantuneiden kaupunkien yhteiselle, hylätylle satamalaiturille.
Vihaiset kaupunginjohtajat eivät päästä matkalaista omien muuriensa sisälle. Onneksi niiden väliin jäävälle ei-kenenkään-maalle kuitenkin mahtuu Laurin sievä mökki ja puutarha. Siellä kukat kukkivat ja viulu soi kauniisti.
Lämpiminä iltoina ihmiset kokoontuvat ylös omille muureilleen ihailemaan maisemaa ja kuuntelemaan musiikkia ja merta.
– Olisiko kuitenkin parempi purkaa erottavat kivimuurit ja rakentaa uusi yhteinen laituri? kaupunkien asukkaat miettivät.
Про автора
Tuula Pere (b. 1958) is Ph.D. in Law and an author from Helsinki, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation published in 2015 examines the limits of the freedom of speech in the Finnish mass media amidst the social and cultural shift of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Before her doctoral research, Tuula Pere has had a career of over two decades as a lawyer and in various expert and executive positions in industry.
Since 2010, Tuula Pere has published over thirty children’s storybooks which have been translated into Swedish, English, Russian, Estonian, French, Italian and Spanish, for example. She has also published poetry and aphorisms for children and short stories for adults.
Tuula Pere is an avid music and sports enthusiast and a keen baker. She is married and a mother of three.