Stillness surrounds filling your soul and calming your mind
Numbing, icy cold seeps in. A snowy, white world encircles. The
frozen river below creaks with the movement of the tides. Intense
darkness envelopes as you sit alone on the frigid bank of the Knak
River. This is life in the frozen wilderness of the winter Arctic
Tundra. Three Years chronicles my three years of teaching in the
Lower Kuskokwim School District Eskimo villages of Tuntutuliak and
Napakiak. It explains what daily life was like in the village. The
prologue also explains the events that led to my children and I
being there. One of the things I observed during those three years
is that we who don't live there and haven't experienced the changes
in the elements become somewhat cocky. Looking back at a trip to
Bethel, which turned into a traumatic experience, I see there was
no excuse for my risking the lives of my children and myself
because of an impatience to do what we wanted to do. The natives
run on their own time and it is closely related to "ifs" and
"maybes." They didin't plan and execute. They went "if" the tide
came in or "if" the planes flew. Then "maybe" they would go to
Bethel. Their patience and slower lifestyle must be what allows
them to continue to exist in the harsh environment of the tundra.
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