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Čakčamannu, 2010
Is it possible to outgrow that which you know so well and begin like a child again? To speak for the first time. To stand for the first time on hard ground, see beyond a meter to new yet familiar faces. To touch those things that once existed out of grasp. To search, as if even in the smallest place, there is an endless frontier.
Golggotmánnu, 2010
I am not ready to leave this place. The longer I stay the more it suits me. I feel more a stranger in my own home than I do here. The land is like a magnet. A person can either repel or connect to this landscape. I believed I saw the Sámi living in two worlds, but perhaps that is also a reflection of myself. Maybe it is why I can see both worlds at all. Do we have to choose one or the other, or is the realization that both exist create enough of a possibility to live in both.
Golggotmánnu, 2010
So as this world becomes more real to me, the other fades away. As it fades, so do the desires, wants and needs that defined me. I have begun to learn again, I have begun to learn that things had become so familiar to me, in that one world, they were out of my site. I have no answer when asked why, but if I could imagine for a few minutes in time, I see myself walking on a path.
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