Well, the very first blade of the very first grass to ever grow on a steep, eroding slope, that’s what. Mmmm.
It’s self-defeating, but, oh my, it tastes so good.
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Iceland: The Game of Sheep
Rock.
Moss eats rock.
Sheep hooves cut moss.
That’s right, look the other way.
Busted.
Erosion in Iceland
Well, the whole island is eroded down to bare stone, but that’s not what I mean. I don’t mean a negative force but a positive one. Look how the water flowing from one of the thousands of nameless falls of the country erodes a path that leads humans to it.
And look how the erosion of lichen makes a path, which humans will follow, although it is no more even than any other line through the rock. 
And look how water carves a quite different path. By the looks of it, it was probably a farm or fishing hut path, which humans or their animals made and water has followed. 
And look how the erosion of a new post-glacial slope has concentrated its finer deposits, creating an environment for life. 
Amazing!
Exotic Iceland
Houses for the mind.
Poems for the body.
Two Speed Iceland
The water swirls, and the wind swirls in the water, and under the effects of a kind of spiritual gravity, they congeal.
If humans could move at their speed, they would still be swirling, but we are so fast that they appear still. We are light flickering on the surface of these flows.
And that’s beautiful, too. That’s Iceland: a country that lives at two speeds, at once.
Two Things About the Trolls of the North
Some trolls love the wind.
Others laugh at it.
It’s a good thing, because the wind is everywhere when you live in the sky!
Sea Eggs
It’s not just birds and turtles that do it.
Up on Vörsluvik, the sea gets into it too.
Here are some in the very process of being washed from the land. 
Perhaps you can see a clutch lying in a young sea in the middle of the image? 
Of course, the sea’s eggs are the land’s eggs, too. 
They do it together! 
In Iceland, Everything is Hay
It used to have trees, and it is eaten by sheep. A little bit of replanting has been done. Here are some Siberian larches in East iceland, placed in like a quilting block.
One works with what one knows. Everything else is a compromise. Spiritually, as I showed you yesterday, the compromise is between paganism and Christianity. Environmentally, it is between earth before and after settlement. Below is an image of Iceland flowing to sea, which is called the force of wild nature.
Well, yes… wild nature with sheep and shivering humans. Iceland is not an indigenous nation. It is a nation of settlers. Settlement is an ongoing process. It is at the root of the country’s past and future. This is what it looks like.
Baa-aaaa!
It also looks like this:
Reykjavik
And this:
Kirkjubær
The point is, when you live on a sub-arctic island, and keep sheep, everything is hay, as the Icelanders say, meaning that when the hay runs out in the middle of the winter you will feed your sheep anything — anything — to survive. Even this:
Yes, in Reykjavik even John, Paul, George and Ringo are hay. And danish beer is hay, too.
Baaaaaaa.
Nobody Wants to Talk About This in Iceland
Erosion.
It’s hard to imagine that it isn’t part of the story of the abandoned houses in each of the two images above.
A Farm in Iceland 
