Monthly Archives: November 2016

Walking Away from the Waterfall

Waterfalls collect travellers and then let them go.

p1340919Iceland lives off of this desire . Storms are an older form of commerce. They bring kelp, fish and sea wrack through the white ring of surf (or fate) that surround the black land. They also bring light.

stormI am learning to walk away from the waterfall. I am not disappointed.

curveEvery minute, the light changes. I’ve been watching that . By early evening (3 pm), the water flowing out of the land’s pastures is blood
fencepoolA gorgeous, non-human blood. Life is an art.

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In Iceland It is Possible to Photograph the Dark

In 1940 Gunnar Gunnarsson wrote  that the long months of darkness were as treasured a part of Icelandic consciousness as the long months of light.

lightdarkWise words! Look how the darkness of this un-named fall in the Whale Fjord radiates vision, stronger than the light.