Category: Folklore

A Thin Place

A Thin Place

Silence falls as the sky contorts. Above my head, enormous beams reach upwards, stretching miles and miles. They are blue, and red, and pink, the reds and pinks so bright that I do not need my camera to see them. I do not need anything, because I’m floating. I’ve slipped, somehow, into another reality, where language fails, and tears take over. *** I arrived sometime after 10pm. That was,...

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Jack Frost

Jack Frost

There are many things to feel nostalgic for as our world heats up. Near the top of my list is frost.  Frost is magic. Its formation, although easily explained, seems akin to alchemy. Crudely put, when ground temperatures fall below freezing, water vapour in the air condenses into ice crystals. These crystals, which start as hexagonal prisms, can shift and morph into numerous symmetrical shapes,...

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