We've all been there -- a few extra moments to linger on a mountaintop, taking the long way home, waiting for the sunset, or staying one more night before heading home from an adventure. It can be hard to admit when our cherished, blissful, and sometimes profound and life changing moments end and it's time to … Continue reading The Intensity of Experience
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Hold fast your hope
For our second class meeting in Sterling's introductory A Sense of Place course, we read the introduction to Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, in which she writes: The thing about a crisis this big, this all-encompassing, is that it changes everything. It changes what we can do, what we can hope for, … Continue reading Hold fast your hope
Dispatches for Iceland #6: Wesfjords Reflections & Recovery
It has been one week since I completed my run across Iceland to bring attention to climate resilience, and I've spent much of that time recovering, replenishing calories with seafood, lamb, and skyr, and taking some tentative and recuperative steps on the trails, snowfields, and beaches around Isafjordur and Flateyri here in the Westfjords. The Climate Run was easily the … Continue reading Dispatches for Iceland #6: Wesfjords Reflections & Recovery
