Essays
Philosophical and Political
2022 The Northern Route – Iceland
3 September: Iceland, the name and the mental imagery that goes with it, evokes visions of icesheets and glaciers and, to a lesser extent, the streams and rivers fed by their meltwater (which in N. America, where I’ve seen it, is always turquoise colored but here is...
2022 The Northern Route – Gullfoss
1 September - I left Gullfoss this morning and for the first 3-4 hours passed through primarily agricultural country: hay fields and pastures, sheep and horses, no cows to be seen. Then after going east for a while on Hwy. 1 the scenery changed—I entered what’s called...
2022 The Northern Route -Sudoroy Faroe Islands
26 August: Having been here four days and traveled from Klaksvik in the north to Sudoroy in the south I’m getting a better sense of what so attracts me to the Faroes, which seem at the moment to be two features: scale and setting. I have believed for several years...
2022 The Northern Route -Klaksvik Faroe Islands
24 August: I’ve moved on today to another island (town of Klaksvik on Bordoy Island); town has about 4,500 people, third largest city in the country. It’s an improvement over towns in the U.S. in the low presence, low visibility commercial establishments and the utter...
2022 The Northern Route – Gjogv Faroe Islands
23 August: I’ve been in the Faroes for over 24 hours and am still having a difficult time putting into words my response to the place. As the airplane made its approach and I got my first views of the islands, I immediately sensed that this was a landscape I would...
2022 The Northern Route – Ilulissat Greenland
*13 August: I am in Ilulissat on the west coast of Greenland at roughly 69° latitude, separated from Canada by Baffin Bay. About 60,000 people live in the country, the largest island on the planet, mostly covered with ice rather than humanity. Ilulissat Icefjord, a...
