After a short time in Colorado, we returned to the ocean. Most of my friends are in Wisconsin right now, facing an Endless Winter, and I’ve been conflicted, deeply conflicted, about the privileges I enjoy, and the beautiful places I get to see. Author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee recently wrote a post about the guilt she felt […]
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Coast of Haiti
On the way home from my holiday, I met a group of men in bright yellow shirts at the Miami airport. They’d been in Haiti, building shelters. We chatted about their work, and I asked one of them if he had a background in construction. “No, ma’am,” he said. “We’re just a bunch of knuckleheads […]
To the sea I went
To the sea I went, my heart full sore For the Norns, whose wrath I would now escape; But the lofty billows bore me undrowned, Till to land I came, so I longer must live. –from Guðrúnarhvöt (Bellows 1923 translation) One of my favorite passages about the sea, Gudrun’s Lament is from The Poetic Edda. […]
Rockport shoreline
I was in Boston for the weekend with friends, and on Saturday we took a drive up the coast to Rockport. Because it was beautiful, and because it was there, I had to photograph the iconic red barn on the water.