“Big And Blue And Full Of The Mind Of God”

The quote is from “Dakota:  A Spiritual Geography” by Kathleen Norris.  It’s from a young Afro-American girl at a base school in Minot, ND, commenting about the sky in her adopted (likely temporary) home.

As James Lileks once put it, the sky is the big attraction when you drive across North Dakota; it’s a “painting that changes every fifteen minutes”.

Joshua Eckl is a photographer from back there, and he’s done a wonderful set of time-lapses of the North Dakota twilight and night sky:

It’s one of the things I miss about living up there.

3 thoughts on ““Big And Blue And Full Of The Mind Of God”

  1. It’s from a young Afro-American black American girl.

    FTFY, unless she remembers visiting Obama’s village with her parents as a child.

  2. I am reminded of many nice times looking up at the skies in remote areas like that–though sadly I’ve not been blessed to have been up while the northern lights were going like that.

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