Galya Morrell

Grandmother. Inuit wife. Allergic to clubs and causes. Between Greenland, Colombia & Central Asia. Birth, death… and the occasional rumor of immortality.

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While the world watches football on giant screens, my favorite team plays beneath glaciers older than history.
The rules are the same.
The view is not.
Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland. 🇬🇱
#WorldCup #FootballEverywhere #KalaallitNunaat

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"Abuela, what is a revolution?"

My grandchildren asked. I answered with two stories: one about America, one about my own family. https://t.co/gHXxYRm2Zb

Happy Independence Day. 🇺🇸

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Inuiattut ullorsiornitsinni tamassi pilluaritsi!
Happy Greenland's National Day to all of you! 🇬🇱

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Today I celebrated Greenland’s National Day 🇬🇱 with my dear friend, the legendary journalist Trudy Rubin. From Ukraine to the Middle East and beyond, she has spent decades reporting from the places where history is being made. Greenland has a true friend in Trudy. Qujanaq! ❤️

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Sold out in Singapore.
Yesterday, the documentary from last summer's Expedition to Svalbard led by @SylviaEarle had its official premiere.
It was one of Ole Jørgen Hammeken's final expeditions. Seeing him on screen again is both joyful and heartbreaking.
#Greenland

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Instead, Navarana spent hers translating, traveling, telling stories, drum-dancing, stitching meaning back into the world wherever it had been torn. Happy Mother's Day, dear Navarana! #Greenland

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On Mother’s Day, I’m thinking about a woman who was not my mother, but showed me what care really looks like. Navarana K'avigak 🇬🇱

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She had been forced to leave her home in Uummannaq, Thule in three days when Pituffik Air Base was built in 1953. Most people would spend the rest of their lives explaining why that broke them. Why they have a life trauma. Why they are depressed.

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“Everything is alive. Most things are invisible. Keep the balance.”
Six months without him.
We’re still learning.

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Six months today. 🇬🇱
A friend from Chukotka told me: if you mourn too hard, the dead lose their way.
I still don’t know where the line is between mourning and remembering.

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He found the word: citizen diplomat.
Crossed the Arctic, was shipwrecked, arrested as a spy, opened a Greenlandic “embassy” in the Amazon.
Refused a “real” job.

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People tell me how to grieve.
A friend of ours is skiing alone across Melville Bay, eating seal for a month, and pulling a sled named after my husband.
#Greenland

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@OJoelsen Happy Easter from Colombia, asasara Orla! 🇬🇱 🇨🇴 Erfalasorput kusanartoq Bogotámi qeqqani erfalasorpoq ❤️

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Cesar & Maria, Ecuadorian indigenous artists, waving the Greenlandic flag for @hammekenoj
From the Andes to the Arctic, memory travels well 🇬🇱

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Three months today since @hammekenoj died. He said death is just a wall. iPhone waves go through walls. Other things do too. You don’t see them, but that doesn’t mean they’re gone. #greenland