Tom Sexton Glacier

Glacier

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We stood on the deck of a ferry at dawn fifty years ago and felt the cold breath

of a glacier that was mirrored in the icy water. Harbor seals disappeared as we approached.

When the air filled with the thunder of the glacier’s calving, we gripped the rail. The ferry shuddered.

Who would have imagined then how easy it would be to turn a glacier to mist, to make a glacier disappear?