The sun now lingers longer each day after winter bringing a slow and steady return of light. Soon we will hear geese and seagulls returning across the coast marking change across the season.
Where the Sun Meets an Endless Sea of Ice on Hudson Bay
There are moments out here when all you want to do is look outward.
This week, standing on the land in Arviat, I find myself facing the blazing sun as it hangs over the horizon—low, steady, and bright in a sky that feels impossibly wide. Beneath it stretches an endless sea of ice and snow across Hudson Bay, broken only by distance and light. It is quiet in a way that feels almost complete.
The sun is spending more time in the sky each day now. After the long winter, you notice it immediately—the way it lingers a little longer, climbs a little higher, warms the edges of the day. It changes everything without saying a word.
Soon, we’ll start to hear them again. The geese returning overhead. The seagulls circling back along the coast. Signs that the season is shifting, that movement is returning to the land.
Our program is based in Winnipeg, and I don’t want to take anything away from that. I love the city. It has its own rhythm, its own energy, its own life that carries so many people and stories.
But it’s out here, standing in front of this vast horizon of snow and ice, that I feel something different. Something grounded. Something that feels like home in a way that is hard to fully explain unless you’re here to see it.
Out here, the land stretches so far it becomes hard to tell where it ends and the sky begins. And in that space, with the sun hanging low over Hudson Bay, everything feels both small and connected at the same time.
For me, it always comes back to this place.
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