For some, a world outlook entails a vision of permanence and stability; that like the day, time commenced at some point and will continue to another; that the world is fixed, unchanging, and immutable - all that is necessary for human comfort is written for the ages as preparation for a coming Winter.

Others see the universe in constant flux; that when the Lord made time, He made it in plenty - perhaps to see that not everything would happen all at once - that all things are ~ all life is ~ in motion ~ dynamic; that things work in cycles, the earth swells in some places and subsides in others, making the very continents impermanent; that even the heavens and the stars have their times.  That while we can see and fear death, destruction, and cataclysmic eruptions, it is far more difficult and requires a different article of faith to envision that somehow - somewhere - there is a constructive force that perpetually re-generates our world and universe. For those who seek, no matter how much is known, there are always new lands, new voyages, new horizons ~ and an approaching Springtime.

                                    Time

Time is something we sometimes regret when we look in the mirror or observe our childhood friends. And yet time has its values. Things change. We learn. We are not the people we were a few years ago. Indeed, we are not really the same as we were a few hours ago.

Do you remember those childhood friends with their boundless curiosity and sense of adventure? Is it true that these senses that made every morning fresh have in some way become lost as we have matured?  “Once upon a time” was once a prelude to adventure, to times and things past, to those people who made us.  If those senses are truly lost, it is a tragedy we in no way need join.  “Once upon a time” is still alive to we who see the world as forever new. Let us be young again and imagine ourselves sailing to new shores on strange ships, to new mornings and new lives.

This is by way of introduction to a program at a more extensive website for those who appreciate the new -- new ideas, new research, new discoveries.  We join again those hardy and adventurous travelers to America of a thousand years ago.

< VINLANDSITE.COM >     

     --and also a book:

“Rediscovering Vinland, Evidence for Ancient Viking                                                  Presence in America”,

by Fred N. Brown III, publ. 2007, available through web at    <   www.iUniverse.com    >  (Recommended as a ten year advancement upon the 10 year old website. It develops further evidence of effects upon the people and district near the site.  Request by title or author. $24.95.)