Such suspense!
The one on the right is just fooling. No grass yet.
A Pair of Icelandic Horses Waiting for the Grass to Grow
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Author Archives: Harold Rhenisch
Icelandic Psychology
In Iceland, you look at the flow of life through a subconscious mind of ice from beyond the edge of the world, or …
…in Iceland, you look at the flow of the mind through a (melting and freezing) barrier of ice from beyond the edge of the world.
One could easily think about lesser things.
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Bessasstaðaá
The Native Icelandic Rose
It grows well on glass.
And in the air.
And in the trees.
Also in mounded bits of purslane!
A true Icelandic Christian iconography would be rather unique!
Icelandic Ghost Stories
As we can see here on Hverfisgata In Reykjavik, they’re all ghosts stories and the Icelanders are the ghosts within books their parents read, or they read when they were young themselves.
Charming.
As you can see, the relationships between technology, Icelanders, and time is haunting and complex. It’s a language in and of itself.
Who else do you know who lives so deeply within books that they have a transit system within them?
Reykjavik: always worth a read!
I Bet Your Tour Bus Doesn’t Take You Here
Old Reykjavik Gives a Norse Black Magic Curse to the New One at Sunrise
The Meaning of Dawn in Iceland
In North America, we look East to see light sweep away darkness.
Hofstaðakirkja
Not so in Iceland. There it daily sweeps away the inhuman world and makes the world safe for human life… precariously. Darkness, as the church and the fenceposts show, is a more inner thing, not without but within.
In Iceland You Are Never Alone
What, you wanted human company?
Highway 76 On a Good Day
A farm among energies older than the gods, will that do? No? Well, there’s a road, so you’re good, right?
A Clown Among Icelandic Horses
Goofiness has, presumably, preserved the Icelandic horse for over eleven centuries.
The trait spoke, obviously, to a need. The need remains.
Icelandic Mountain Wisdom
Because waterfalls in basalt are the shape of skulls, the shallow bowls that catch the energy of life that is the world, they are great places to think.
Stekkalækur
It’s a good thing you don’t have to translate those thoughts into words.
Stekkalækur
To walk into these canyons is to walk away from story into poetry.
Bessastaðaá
Note the “field” on the upper right.
People used to live here. This was the boundary of a house field.
Stekkur
You didn’t look out. You looked in.
Why Do Icelandic Horses Have Long Ears?
Wind! You’d lose the use of one ear most of the time if you didn’t.
A serious issue! Plus, it’s stylish, eh.
If you turn your head, you can hear even better, but you can’t always do that now, can you. You want to, like stand still.
All together now!
There’s no arguing with it. It’s a thing.
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Skriðuklaustur
A Farm in Iceland 