WAY FINDERS

The Inukshuk I found in my forest today.

For those who might ask, Inuksuit were originally directional markers left by
the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic as they traveled across the barren tundra — a
vast landscape where permafrost leaves few natural landmarks. The
carefully-balanced stones have different meanings, and are a language of
navigation with roots deep in the Inuit culture. The markers also signify
safety, hope and friendship. They say that someone has walked this way, that you
are not alone.

The inukshuk concept has been embraced by local hikers in these hills and
woods, a form of impromptu art … a strange urge people seem to have, to pick
stones up from the moss, feel their heft, and temperature and shape … to balance
them carefully in often very complex ways. To tell someone they were here.

The sculptures stand for a day or so, then they are gone.

And to come across one in the silent, dripping forest feels somehow ….
magical. Like a story.

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