Northwest Wind
@keewatin.bsky.social
Dad and outdoor enthusiast in the Mountain West | Environment | Climate | Community | Indigenous Rights | Circumpolar North | Film | Literature | Poetics.
“Then we came forth, to see again the stars” (Dante Alighieri, the Inferno).
“Then we came forth, to see again the stars” (Dante Alighieri, the Inferno).
Pinned
Northwest Wind
@keewatin.bsky.social
· Nov 26
“Anyone for tea? I’ll be scouting the backyard for Western Whiptail and Common Sagebrush Lizards.”
Introducing our newest generous soul: Aya.
#catsky #catsofbluesky
Introducing our newest generous soul: Aya.
#catsky #catsofbluesky
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Can’t resist but to rewatch the storm scene in the movie Océans, shot in the Iroise Sea (home!) during the 2008 gale.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Can’t resist but to rewatch the storm scene in the movie Océans, shot in the Iroise Sea (home!) during the 2008 gale.
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Here are 30 seconds of calm: pancake ice drifting down river, from the perspective of the N. Saskatchewan River’s north bank in Edmonton.
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Here are 30 seconds of calm: pancake ice drifting down river, from the perspective of the N. Saskatchewan River’s north bank in Edmonton.
“Time makes us imagine more, even as we forget the history we’re trying to invoke. It’s easy to project our fantasies onto a past that we can’t quite remember. The ad is seductive but transparent. We don’t believe the copy, but appreciate its innocence.”
Cool Enchantment - Public Books
The ad is seductive but transparent. We don’t believe the copy but appreciate its innocence.
www.publicbooks.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Time makes us imagine more, even as we forget the history we’re trying to invoke. It’s easy to project our fantasies onto a past that we can’t quite remember. The ad is seductive but transparent. We don’t believe the copy, but appreciate its innocence.”
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75 years ago this week, one of the benchmark storms of the 20th century in the US, the Great Appalachian Storm. (...and my all-time favorite weather map)
On Today's Date: The Great Appalachian Storm Of 1950 | Weather.com
It was one of the nation's most extreme, anomalous and costly storms. Here's what made this storm 75 years ago both damaging and unique.
weather.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
75 years ago this week, one of the benchmark storms of the 20th century in the US, the Great Appalachian Storm. (...and my all-time favorite weather map)
Not to be missed: “Our Common Nature.” Deeply felt 7 part podcast featuring Yo-Yo Ma and collaborations with land, animals, storytellers, and natural/cultural communities that nurture and sustain us and bring reciprocal responsibilities, healing, and joy.
www.yo-yoma.com/our-common-n...
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www.yo-yoma.com/our-common-n...
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Alaska: Yo-Yo Ma and the Gwich’in play for the salmon | Our Common Nature | WNYC Studios
This episode begins in Fairbanks, AK. Yo-Yo Ma is at a house concert with drag queen environmentalist Pattie Gonia, singer/songwriter Quinn Christopherson and Princess Daazhraii John...
www.wnycstudios.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Not to be missed: “Our Common Nature.” Deeply felt 7 part podcast featuring Yo-Yo Ma and collaborations with land, animals, storytellers, and natural/cultural communities that nurture and sustain us and bring reciprocal responsibilities, healing, and joy.
www.yo-yoma.com/our-common-n...
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www.yo-yoma.com/our-common-n...
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We've had lots & lots & lots of rain lately. (I love rain, but still..) I'm reminding myself how gorgeous Sitka is in the sun.
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We've had lots & lots & lots of rain lately. (I love rain, but still..) I'm reminding myself how gorgeous Sitka is in the sun.
Hope's Return
"... I held your voice
Infinite in the night air
Go towards what is real
The moon is no God of fear
When I read your words
I felt the ringing of the world
Floating surrender
I need walks long enough
To free me from my mind (terrains of fire)
A sense of horizon."
- Julie Byrne
"... I held your voice
Infinite in the night air
Go towards what is real
The moon is no God of fear
When I read your words
I felt the ringing of the world
Floating surrender
I need walks long enough
To free me from my mind (terrains of fire)
A sense of horizon."
- Julie Byrne
Julie Byrne - Hopes Return | Live from Other Voices
YouTube video by OtherVoicesLive
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Hope's Return
"... I held your voice
Infinite in the night air
Go towards what is real
The moon is no God of fear
When I read your words
I felt the ringing of the world
Floating surrender
I need walks long enough
To free me from my mind (terrains of fire)
A sense of horizon."
- Julie Byrne
"... I held your voice
Infinite in the night air
Go towards what is real
The moon is no God of fear
When I read your words
I felt the ringing of the world
Floating surrender
I need walks long enough
To free me from my mind (terrains of fire)
A sense of horizon."
- Julie Byrne
“… we are on the edge of the end of the world. But it also situates us within a window of possibility. The moment we find ourselves in is a moment of twilight, the suspension between two worlds, that presents a window, a moment wherein something extraordinary could possibly transpire.”
On our blog, read an interview with Phoenix Poet Cythia Cruz, author of the newly published collection of poems, SWEET REPETITION. Check it out here: buff.ly/nGjLnPH
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“… we are on the edge of the end of the world. But it also situates us within a window of possibility. The moment we find ourselves in is a moment of twilight, the suspension between two worlds, that presents a window, a moment wherein something extraordinary could possibly transpire.”
“On that upper section of the river, the land is so freshly sculpted it feels like you’re floating through the Pleistocene. You half expect to see a wooly mammoth around each bend.”
There are few precious trips in life that are truly life-changing. This trip down Alaska's Alsek River is one of them, totally recalibrating your concept of wildness.
🌎 Follow along our journey down the wildest river on Earth: www.americanrivers.org/2024/08/a-jo...
🌎 Follow along our journey down the wildest river on Earth: www.americanrivers.org/2024/08/a-jo...
A Journey Down the Wildest River on Earth
As someone who has spent his career working to save rivers, I’ve had the opportunity to explore some of the most spectacular waterways North America has to offer. Some of my favorites include the Midd...
www.americanrivers.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“On that upper section of the river, the land is so freshly sculpted it feels like you’re floating through the Pleistocene. You half expect to see a wooly mammoth around each bend.”
"In the lecture hall instruments perch atop bookshelves, old snowshoes and sledges hang from hooks, large pieces of numbered rock dot the surfaces, and [photos] of the different glaciers through history adorn the walls."
springs-rcc.org/portrait-of-...
Flora Mary Barlett:
www.floramarybartlett.com
springs-rcc.org/portrait-of-...
Flora Mary Barlett:
www.floramarybartlett.com
Today, we would like to highlight a photo essay from the recently-published eighth issue of 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.
In 2020, visual and #environmental #anthropologist Flora Mary Bartlett travelled to the #Tarfala Research Station in northern Sweden to explore how scientists engage with #glacial landscapes.
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In 2020, visual and #environmental #anthropologist Flora Mary Bartlett travelled to the #Tarfala Research Station in northern Sweden to explore how scientists engage with #glacial landscapes.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"In the lecture hall instruments perch atop bookshelves, old snowshoes and sledges hang from hooks, large pieces of numbered rock dot the surfaces, and [photos] of the different glaciers through history adorn the walls."
springs-rcc.org/portrait-of-...
Flora Mary Barlett:
www.floramarybartlett.com
springs-rcc.org/portrait-of-...
Flora Mary Barlett:
www.floramarybartlett.com
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November 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Solar noon in Fairbanks, Alaska. The sun only rises six degrees above the horizon. We have 5 hours 48 minutes of daylight currently, decreasing at a rate of around six minutes per day.
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Solar noon in Fairbanks, Alaska. The sun only rises six degrees above the horizon. We have 5 hours 48 minutes of daylight currently, decreasing at a rate of around six minutes per day.
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Hans Gude painted this remarkably detailed depiction of Sandvik Fjord (1879) from above Sandviken, now the northern suburbs of the Norwegian city of Bergen, looking to the west and the island of Askøy.
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Hans Gude painted this remarkably detailed depiction of Sandvik Fjord (1879) from above Sandviken, now the northern suburbs of the Norwegian city of Bergen, looking to the west and the island of Askøy.
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I finished reading this book last week and I still find myself thinking about parts of it every day. It’s quite simply one of the best biographies I’ve ever read, about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I finished reading this book last week and I still find myself thinking about parts of it every day. It’s quite simply one of the best biographies I’ve ever read, about one of the most fascinating writers of the 20th century.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
Hats off to @lancerichardson.bsky.social for this Herculean achievement.
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My workspace looks so cozy once I close the curtains and clean up. I love a creative space free of electronics
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
My workspace looks so cozy once I close the curtains and clean up. I love a creative space free of electronics
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Sunrise this morning on the Pigeon River in northern Lower Michigan. Enjoyed a 3-day nature/meditation/yoga retreat with no news/social media. Greatly restorative!
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Sunrise this morning on the Pigeon River in northern Lower Michigan. Enjoyed a 3-day nature/meditation/yoga retreat with no news/social media. Greatly restorative!
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A pleasant and unusually warm New Mexico autumn afternoon for a short hike. Looking eastward across the Albuquerque Basin from the Petroglyph National Monument volcanoes towards the faulted western face of Sandia Mountain along the eastern edge of the Rio Grande Rift.
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A pleasant and unusually warm New Mexico autumn afternoon for a short hike. Looking eastward across the Albuquerque Basin from the Petroglyph National Monument volcanoes towards the faulted western face of Sandia Mountain along the eastern edge of the Rio Grande Rift.
“‘Three days were enough for us to fall in love with Myken. The sky, the sea and the people,’ says Tokle. ‘Yes, those three days completely turned our lives upside down …’”
www.myken.no
www.myken.no
The island measures just 400 metres wide and 1.2 miles long and lies north of the Arctic Circle off the west coast of Norway. ... it is home to the world’s most remote whisky distillery – an improbable venture, producing a spirit that critics claim rivals its Scottish cousins.
The remote Arctic island, saved by an unshakeable community spirit
North of the Arctic Circle, beyond the maps of ancient mariners, a remote Norwegian island once thought lost to time has found new life in an unlikely industry
www.positive.news
November 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
“‘Three days were enough for us to fall in love with Myken. The sky, the sea and the people,’ says Tokle. ‘Yes, those three days completely turned our lives upside down …’”
www.myken.no
www.myken.no
“The Tawny provides an invitation, not only into the world of owls but red squirrels and deer and all other manner of adjacent nonhuman lives.”
- @pollyrowena.bsky.social
- @pollyrowena.bsky.social
Newly out in paperback, @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'The Company of Owls' (@eandtbooks.bsky.social) demonstrates how we can be better neighbours to the nonhuman, writes Abi Andrews 🦉 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/the-...
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
“The Tawny provides an invitation, not only into the world of owls but red squirrels and deer and all other manner of adjacent nonhuman lives.”
- @pollyrowena.bsky.social
- @pollyrowena.bsky.social
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“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.”
― Barry Lopez
― Barry Lopez
September 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.”
― Barry Lopez
― Barry Lopez
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November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"What I wanted to write about was the nomadism and immersion of river life, how water shapes everything in a guide’s life, and it took staying home long enough to do it."
– Becca Lawton
beccalawton.com
– Becca Lawton
beccalawton.com
New in @terrainorg.bsky.social, a conversation about western rivers by three writers who know what it's like to raft, explore, study, and love them. @rosemcmackin.bsky.social www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...
Water Shapes Everything: A Conversation on Western Rivers - Terrain.org
Zac Podmore, Rose McMackin, and Becca Lawton, who carry Western rivers in their blood, talk about their boating lives, creative bents, and views of moving water.
www.terrain.org
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"What I wanted to write about was the nomadism and immersion of river life, how water shapes everything in a guide’s life, and it took staying home long enough to do it."
– Becca Lawton
beccalawton.com
– Becca Lawton
beccalawton.com
"My children were violated. Who has the right to do that? Who? I mean, you're altering their organs, their DNA, their blood, their health outcomes ... yes, we won a class action, but it's just money. It doesn't give me back the time with my kids. It doesn't give me my dream home. Gone."
PBS Newshour profiles Mariah Blake's book
"They Poisoned the World."
Excellent book, sad story. #PFAS
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
"They Poisoned the World."
Excellent book, sad story. #PFAS
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
How a small community fought for justice after finding forever chemicals in drinking water
So-called forever chemicals are both harmful to our health and are everywhere. Studies have found them in women's breast milk and even in rain falling in Tibet. A new book tells the story of how these...
www.pbs.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"My children were violated. Who has the right to do that? Who? I mean, you're altering their organs, their DNA, their blood, their health outcomes ... yes, we won a class action, but it's just money. It doesn't give me back the time with my kids. It doesn't give me my dream home. Gone."
"If comfort is informed by identity and worldview, where do viewpoints, imaginings, and feelings about the North split and merge, and by whom?"
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) exhibit announcement:
www.uaf.edu/cla/news/202...
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) exhibit announcement:
www.uaf.edu/cla/news/202...
Today we have "Curating with dis/comfort" by @katieionecraney.bsky.social
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/13/c...
#envhist #envhum
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/13/c...
#envhist #envhum
Curating with dis/comfort
Katie Ione Craney's Arctic art exhibition explored how comfort and discomfort shape identity, belonging, colonial legacies, and lived experiences in Northern environments.
niche-canada.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"If comfort is informed by identity and worldview, where do viewpoints, imaginings, and feelings about the North split and merge, and by whom?"
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) exhibit announcement:
www.uaf.edu/cla/news/202...
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) exhibit announcement:
www.uaf.edu/cla/news/202...
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Some things can be done as well as others.
—Sam Patch, celebrated falls jumper
—Sam Patch, celebrated falls jumper
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Some things can be done as well as others.
—Sam Patch, celebrated falls jumper
—Sam Patch, celebrated falls jumper