Niels, Valgerdur and I head to Selatangar for a short hike in heavy rain and thick misty airs. the sea roils against the smashed and solid black stone. lichen splash some rocks with colored and white spraying splotches of paint. a visit to the Blue Lagoon is … different … from when it was a rough dredged pond in the lava, and a small wooden shack for changing. now it is business.
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form–no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space–ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold–the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring’s invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn. — Walt Whitman
