Lockdown has given us unexpected gifts, and taken from us treasures whose value we didn’t know until they were gone.

On December 25th, 2020, American Nature writer and essayist, Barry Lopez, died after a nearly 50 year career. He won the National Book Award for non-fiction in 1986 for “Arctic Dreams”. He “traveled to over 80 countries, writing extensively about distant and exotic landscapes including the Arctic wilderness, exploring the relationships between human cultures and wild nature” (Wikipedia).