Water, light, and movement
A day of abstracts
3 October 2018 – Day two, or is it three?
Time zones and timelines At some point during my trip, I realized that I never changed the date and time on my camera to reflect the European time zone. Photos I take […]
At the end of the day
Last impressions of the first day
Ymerbukta and Esmarkbreen
Views from a glacier front
Summer reading list
The FT’s Weekend Edition this past Saturday had its annual compendium of summer reading, put together by its editors. It’s always fun to go through these sorts of list to see if […]
Esmarkbreen – not quite monochrome
Along the glacier’s edge
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 […]
