Along the glacier’s edge
Esmarkbreen – not quite monochrome
Setting sails
2 October – Ymerbukta We left port yesterday afternoon with the motor but put up the sails quickly and fairly flew across the fjord. We helped with the sails – a token […]
We need a better language for nature
Unsolicited Book Reviews: Horizon, by Barry Lopez; Underland, by Robert Macfarlane There are any number of ways to begin this review. I could discuss how our language of “Nature” is fundamentally exploitative–that […]
The Divine Arctic Comedy, Heaven
Heaven Air Future Sublimate. Dissipate. Eliminate. Obviate. Retreat – Sublimate, v.: to pass directly from the solid state to the vapor state; archaic: to improve or refine, as in […]
The Divine Arctic Comedy, Purgatory
Purgatory Ice Present Millennial. Annual. Tangible. Visible. Advance – Water became ice. Masses of ice ranged from the north across oceans, continents, and islands; tongues extended from mountain tops […]
The Divine Arctic Comedy: Hell
A co-resident on the Arctic Circle asked me to write three essays to introduce her exhibit opening this June in the Montefalco Museum, Montefalco, Italy. The gallery has three rooms, one leading […]
And the rest of the crew
The people, part 3 Last but not least, this rounds out the cast. Twenty-eight residents and 11 crew members set sail for two weeks on the waters of the North Atlantic. Tight […]
There are no bit parts
People, part 2 As each person on this trip takes shape in my photos, I realize that they all held leading roles as stars of their own Arctic show.
The characters take the stage
A few characters As a field biologist, I often said there was a reason I worked alone in the woods for so many years. Not quite a misanthrope, I don’t suffer fools […]
Dog parking at the end of the trail
When the season’s over There are fewer than five miles of roads on an island more than 500 miles from the nearest landmass. At the end of the season, ride your snowmobile […]
