If you want to be anonymous, Greenland might seem like a good idea. Greenland’s towns and settlements are so small, so remote, so distant from each other. You could easily be fooled that this is a place you might find solitude, isolation, privacy. But you’d probably be wrong. Greenland has a population of fifty six …
Month: May 2019
*Photograph by Hans Peter Kleemann . Child abuse. It’s not a subject most people want to talk about. And certainly not at the up-beat, pro-business Future Greenland conference, which brought about four hundred and fifty participants to Nuuk last week. There’s enormous interest in the future of Greenland. From long-time allies like the Americans, to …
This morning, as I walked to work, on another day of Arctic sun blazing down from a perfect blue sky, brilliant white snow clinging to the dark rocky mountains, I was struck by a combination of smells, a combination of smells that perfectly reflected my image of Greenland, and which invoked a burning passion for …
*‘Skadestuen’ The hospital emergency department, Nuuk One of the first panicked thoughts that flashed through my mind after breaking my leg hiking in Greenland was, Oh God! What day is it today?! And a wave of relief washed over me as I realised it was a Monday. I was recalling a friend’s experience with her …
Normal people collect flowers, rocks. But we’re not all normal, are we. I once knew a cat that collected leaves instead of dead mice, mewing at the front door until someone would acknowledge the beautiful green catch between his paws and add it to the bowl filled with similar leafy trophies. People collect strange things …