It looks like she has plans for us!
Good. We need plans.
That Old Reykjavik Moon
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Monthly Archives: January 2018
There are Trolls and Then There are Trolls
So, like, you want to see trolls, eh. Well, there’s the troll park at Fossátun.
Cartoon trolls. Fibreglass shells. 3D graffiti.
If you carefully turn around, you’ll find the real thing.
Sure, laugh.
All You Have to Know About Playgrounds in Iceland
Every playground worth its salt has a swing.
In Iceland, the swings have four wheel drive.
Humans Meet Their Gods
But only after they have no words for them any more.
Such bittersweet irony at the Jökulsárlón! Just imagine if these powers could still speak to each other!
Glacier Headed Out to Sea
Global warming carries the old ones away in pieces.
We follow, in the confusion our machines recreate for us as beauty.
Gleðilegt nýtt ár!
Whether you find power in a single wave breaking out of the sea of the sun…
… or, turning around, in lines of thought, humble beneath the ancient forces of ice and gravity …
… or in a glacier setting to sea from the Jökulsárlón in the last hour of light …
… may you find the mountain where you are home.
Thor’s Shield, from Skogarkot in Thingvallasveit
And may you burn like a birch tree in the cold.
Happy New Year. Thank you for all of your inspiration!
A Farm in Iceland 