The Best Love Note Ever

I spent a couple weeks in Wainwright, Alaska this past November. I was taking part in a survey that asks how people share their foods, especially subsistence foods, with other in the community. Sharing is a major part of traditional Inupiaq life. Relative to modern 'white' norms, sharing of food is still very high. The act of gathering and harvesting local foods, and the preparation and consumption of these foods, is a major part of life in many parts of rural Alaska. The people in Wainwright, men and women, young and old, are amazingly warm. Kiara Bodfish, probably about 8 years old, wrote me a special note: