This is the view from Browerville during yesterday's lunch hour, looking directly south across the middle lagoon at the rising/setting sun. While the sun did rise above what would be the horizon on a perfectly clear day, it did not manage to make it above the low band of clouds to the south. During the half hour or so that it was up, I took a slow walk along and near the lagoon.
Now the sun will be gone from Barrow until January 22.
View # Two.
View # 3.
View # 4: that is the Piuraagvik Rec Center to left and the Yupiqpak ice-skating arena to the right.
I am in Barrow for the Uqapiaqta! Let's Speak in Iñupiaq! Elders and Youth Conference. Very near to the end of today's final session, Helen Peetook of Wainwright said this:
"I don't think we have much time to live in this earth. Like the song says, this is not my home, I'm just passing through."
We pass hard through such beauty, and so briefly.