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WHAT THE ICEBERG SAID
Bold. Blue. Megalithic. To think I might have begun as a whispered word on an ancient’s breath,a droplet in the spray of a neolithic sneeze, the spatter in a sputtered warning, “Run!”a single snowflake spit from a cloud, delivered on … Continue reading
Posted in ADVENTURES, ANCIENT WISDOM and TEACHINGS, ARCTIC WONDER, POEMS, TEACHINGS FROM THE FAR NORTH, VIEW FROM MY SOAP BOX
Tagged adventures in Greenland, climate change, D. G. Lambo, D. G. Lambo-Weidner, Disko Bay, Donna Gwinnell Lambo-Weidner, Donna Lambo-Weidner, Greenland, ice berg, ice berg themed poetry, ilulissat, melting ice cap, poetry, wisdom from the far north
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KALAALLIT NUNAAT – When Nanor Comes to Visit
There’s something surreal about spotting a row of paw prints the size of cast-iron skillets stamped in the snow thirty feet from where you’ve been sleeping.
KALAALLIT NUNAAT – Pure Perfection
A blank page waves from a single flag pole propped in the vast subcortical network of my mental workspace. When I zero in on it, a hint of color leaches through, teasing me with thoughts of surrendering to the barrage of images suddenly cascading from above. But I’m … Continue reading
ICELANDIC ANTIPASTI
Once I’d heard The Calling, answered it, and set the intention of being so overjoyed with the experience of a four-day dogsled trip in Green-land that I would do it again in a heart-beat, the fear of my eyeballs freezing in their sockets while I … Continue reading
AMUSE-BOUCHE
In the world of fine cuisine, amuse-bouche translates as something to amuse the mouth. It’s a single, bite-sized hors d’oeuvre that tickles your taste buds awake and leaves your tongue salivating for the next course. Although this waddle of penguins may not leave you … Continue reading
SERMERSSUAQ UKARPALUGPOQ-An Earth Day Tribute
She weeps. She cries. She howls. She sighs at man’s inability to use his knowledge wisely. Sermerssuaq The Big Ice Greenland’s ice cap. Tropical blue melt-water lakes the size of small countries rest upon Mother Earth’s head. Creaking from their weight,
SCALE
Every Friday the folks at The Daily Post generate a themed photo challenge. This week’s ‘SCALE’ took me back to a trip we made in the summer of 2009 to the Ilulissat Ice Fjord in Greenland. To know that these ancient mountains of … Continue reading
Posted in ADVENTURES, ROAD TRIP, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes
Tagged Donna Weidner, DPchallange, dp_photo_challenge/scale, Greenland, icebergs, ilulissat
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If
If no one sees my tears, Does it mean I do not cry?
WHAT IF?
I came across a poem the other day and I just can’t get it outta’ my head, so I’ve decided to share it with you today. The words are by ~ Ganga White and the photos by yours truly, unless otherwise noted… … Continue reading
Posted in ADVENTURES, AWESOME PEOPLE, EVENTS, POEMS, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes
Tagged adventure, blog, Cambodia, Donna Weidner, Ganga White, Greenland, icebergs, Ilulisaat, Kangerlussuaq, Maile Ngema Lama, Mandaza Augustine Kandemwa, poem, Return of the Sacred Fire, Thailand, Univu and Haru Kuntanawa
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HE KNOWS WHEN YOU’VE BEEN NAUTICAL OR NICE
Sure enough—he was the real deal. And who did he think he was fooling with those shades? Certainly, not me. Incognito on a wind still summer’s afternoon—that’s what he was—a living, breathing, incognito San Francisco treat. But a cable car … Continue reading
Posted in ADVENTURES, HOLIDAYS, HUMOR, TRAVEL/PHOTO Themes
Tagged Arctic Circle, author, blog, Christmas, Donna Weidner, Greenland, humor, San Francisco, Santa Claus, writer
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