Day 162…go north

Heading out of Whitehorse, YK Photo Credit: Liam Manderville

If you are looking for a place that embodies the whole of the Looking for Light Project - magic, beauty and light - go north.

If I lived anywhere else for the sheer love of it, it would only be farther and farther north, chasing the boreal up to the Yukon or the Northwest Territories. There’s something about living beside a great stretch of forest, both as participant and as witness, that is endlessly absorbing, at once enchanting and distressing. The former because there are vistas and qualities of light in the spaces of the everyday that are otherworldly, requiring an absolute halting of all activity and an undivided attention to just that light at that time. The latter because there is an incredible amount.

- Jenna Butler, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail, 2015.