Every Western church has a window much like this … Christ Risen Reykholt Church Altar, Iceland Not many churches have this for a view while you’re sitting in the pews … Church […]
Rebirth … through Trees
Finding the Earth’s Story, Finding my Own
I’m off. Or is it going home? At any rate, it involves Iceland. I’ll continue these meditations on place from there for six weeks. I fully expect to get to their heart. There […]
Light Does Not Move in Straight Lines
Two hundred years ago, the poet and scientist Goethe observed that if light is measured with Newton’s prisms and measurement devices what will be found will match the method of measurement. After […]
Embroidering the Land
Ah, Iceland. When the Vikings came, Irish monks were already there. At the end of the world they had a fighting chance to get just a little bit closer to God. They […]
The School of The World
Speaking of Schools on the Land, here’s one that didn’t quite work out… yet. The Icelandic Writer Gunnar Gunnarsson, who was famous from the 1910s through the 1940s for writing of peasant […]
The Biggest Waterfall of All
So, just imagine. You’re beetling along happily across the wheat fields of the Washington desert after a freak spring snow, getting passed by giant fertilizer trucks every time you stop to take […]
Okanagan Okanogan 