Alexander O’Hara

Annals of Solitude

Philosophy

“Stephen Pax Leonard’s voluntary exile on Greenland is reminiscent of the ancient Irish and British monks who left the British Isles in search of an ascetic retreat in the North Atlantic prior to the Viking age. These adventurous monks were seeking God in the wild and silence of the Far North. Leonard’s contemporary spiritual quest in this Arctic Walden is a meditation on an encounter with Reality with a capital R when the noise and distractions of the modern world are removed.”