March 4, 2005
Flew in from Eureka tonight. A tail wind got us down here in just over two hours. It was dark the whole flight - which was pretty unfortunate.
There is so much power in the air and the land up here. You are at Earth's mercy in every direction. It's both humbling and empowering. Just feeling that strength from the wind and the lifeless land reinforces the brevity of the body and the mind.
I stood on a mountain on a clear day on Ellesmere Island. I could see for miles. But for the first time in my life, I couldn't see a trace of life anywhere. No trees; no tracks. A wave of comfortable loneliness swept over me. It was impossible to ignore the wind: echoing in my ears ghosts of a thousand years; and pushing me over with gusts of a million more.
From there, I could finally physically see and feel the solitary realm that I had experienced only in my mind since childbirth. And I was at peace.
Posted by waub at February 20, 2007 11:10 PM