“Big And Blue And Full Of The Mind Of God”
By Mitch Berg
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.
October 12th, 2016 at 7:44 am
It’s from a young
Afro-Americanblack American girl.FTFY, unless she remembers visiting Obama’s village with her parents as a child.
October 12th, 2016 at 10:50 am
Duly noted, and take it up with all of these people.
October 14th, 2016 at 2:02 pm
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.