This is Total Eclipse of the Sun day. At noon, here is my view. Totally cloudy. Captain announced that he is trying to find a better spot in the ocean between Iceland and Greenland. Tours were available for our next two stops, Grundarfjordur and Isafjordur, Iceland, but a typical tour costs from $300 to $500/person to see ..... what? We have signed up for a $139 bus tour of Nuuk, Greenland. That might be it. First Grundarfjordur, located 109 miles northwest of Reykjavik. First to come here were French merchants in 1786. Is a fishing town. Has maybe almost 900 people. Herrings draw Orcas to this location. Features Mount Kirkufell, and Kirkjufellstoss and Grundarfoss waterfalls. Aurora time? Isafjordur is 254 miles north of Reykjavik. Means ice fjord. located in the northwest corner of Iceland. First settled in 9th century, but took until the 16th century to become a trading post for foreign merchants. Around this time, witch trials were com...
Some tell me that they read my blog daily to vicariously enhance their lives. From an issue of Time magazine I am now reading by Angela Haupt: YOU DON’T NEED TO BOOK A FLIGHT to see the northern lights or watch a total solar eclipse to experience awe. All you have to do is look up at a sunset, down at the veins of a leaf, or deep into your morning coffee. Experiencing just a few minutes of awe a day is linked to less stress, anxiety, and depression; lower inflammation; less loneliness; and more generosity and connection, researchers have found. “I don’t think there’s anything you can do that’s better for you than a few minutes of awe,” says Dacher Keltner, a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life. Awe is the feeling you get “when you encounter things that are vast and beyond your frame of reference,” Keltner says, shifting ...