“Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment you have experienced.”
— Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Things are looking bleak. Not that I needed any confirmation, but when a friend—whose general outlook is one of magical illumination—sent me a text that included the phrase “before the end of the world,” I knew it wasn’t just me feeling this way. With that in mind, I’ve been making choices accordingly. So when the opportunity arose to once again horn in on my brother’s family vacation, I grabbed a friend and jumped at the chance without hesitation. This was my third visit to the tiny island nation of Iceland and there was not a single moment of disappointment: exploring ice caves nestled over active volcanoes, soaking in a geothermal river on the side of a moss and snow-covered mountain, watching wild waves crash onto a black sand beach from my perch on a tall basalt wall.… Read the rest