authenticity, discovery, enchantment, freedom, happiness, humour, innocence, moments, nuannaarpoq, sharing
This post is also available as a podcast on Spotify, click here to listen. We were recently invited to spend a few days with friends at their place on the beach. Among other things, I enjoyed watching children and their families playing in the water and the sand....
beauty, humour, inspiration, nuannaarpoq, sharing
A wonderful story of a woman who decides her grandchildren need to spend more time looking at nature and talking to people. I loved her humorous and decisive course of action and the fact that she was so loved by her family that they forgave her technological...
happiness, innocence, kindness
After spending most of her childhood exiled in Siberia, much of it as a half-starved orphan, Maria is finally rescued by a distant aunt who takes her in and gives her a loving home for the first time in her life. “Oh my little birdie …” my aunt would...
discovery, memory, sharing
The Hungarian poet Faludy gives an enticing description of his grandfather, seen through a boy’s eyes. I like how he pitches his speech appropriately for a child, consciously or not. Also the idea that his words sunk into the young mind, and were understood...
beauty, discovery, enchantment, happiness, memory, moments, nuannaarpoq, sharing
James Rebanks describes a nuannaarpoq moment with his daughter, watching a white owl hunt. And he wishes her all a loving parent could wish a child along with the hope that this magical moment will live on in her memory.    I hope Bea lives for a hundred more years. ...
authenticity, awards, enchantment, imagination, kindness, nuannaarpoq, resilience
As you may be aware, we had the bright idea to present a few nuannaarpoqian characters as candidates for a Nuannaarpoq Award.  Please feel free to read more about this idea including the rules devised to ensure this is a joyous and humanistic process. Therefore...
inspiration, kindness, resilience
Certainly the strongest and most loving influence on Gorky’s troubled childhood was his grandmother. Her capacity to maintain her belief in life and humanity despite repeated evidence of its worst aspects, is astonishing.  Here Gorky pays tribute to the power...
enchantment, happiness, resilience, sharing
There are many such luminous moments, often in the presence of his resilient, joyous grandmother, in the childhood memoirs of Gorky. These stand out all the more given the often staggering levels of cruelty to which he, and even she, were subjected. It was a world...
