Today's guest blogger is named Anna Dannenberg. She is 20 years and lives in Latvia. She moved to Sweden when she was 9, but after high school she moved back on a whim. When she can she is fiddling with 365 Riga. Otherwise she works, hangs out and try to make friends with a slightly chilly Riga. 

Do you live in an concrete jungle? I do. 

I grew up in a small village outside Falun where you cycled to the local store, had a Saturday dance in the barn, and where time actually moved slower - it even stopped sometimes. But apart from the romantic idyll I just painted you because I don't live there anymore, there's actually a big difference that will remain no matter how much you tire of the boonies. The city is pillars of concrete where the forest, birds, grass and streams are forced to retreat. Okay, a small proportion has been allowed to remain, but entirely on the city's terms. If you wake up in the morning and look out the window, the concrete will never be able to show you how the world feels today. Summer is never very summery and winter never very wintry, everything is slightly dulled, it's an even grayscale. Most of all, I noticed it during the winter months. When trees and shrubs become barren and the fallen snow just becomes slushy shades of gray from the urban heat . It's days like those that I begin to doubt whether cities are really such a damn good idea after all.

But! We shouldn't bully the city too much, my friends! We're herd animals, we belong together and need each other to feel good. So yes, we want each other close as we are forming a city. It's sad though that it gets so boring when it should be functional. 

Creativity, we all have, so we can always make something good of what we have. My creative heart thought that the concrete jungle should be less concrete and more jungle! A small step in the right direction is to pep all other creative concrete hearts. Small jungle reminders may be left on park benches, at parking meters and in stairwells. Take the best of nature to the city! Time to go nuts!