If you've never experienced it, a glacier is an incredibly awesome force of power and beauty. Miles long, hundreds, even thousands of feet thick, it's a massive, living, moving slab of ice that grinds up everything in its path. You see it takes 30 feet of snow to form just one foot of glacial ice. And that glacial ice is so dense and so concentrated, it's one of the hardest substances on earth. In fact the ice at the bottom of the glacier achieves a unique property that scientists call plasticity, which mean that instead of cracking and breaking when it encounters resistance it instead cracks and breaks and destroys everything it meets, including rocks, including boulders, including even mountains. It's what shaped the landscape all around us here in the Midwest. In fact the ground beneath us right now is still recovering from the weight of the glaciers that covered this area 10,000 years ago.
And even though you can't feel it, the ground is actually springing upward at a microscopically imperceptible rate that only dogs can feel.
And even though you can't see a glacier move, you can see the evidence of its movement all around in the rocks and stones and other debris strewn along its edges.
And even though you can't see a glacier move, sometimes when it's very quiet and you're all alone you can hear it pop and crack and groan and echo off the valley walls.
And even though you can't see a glacier move, you can't help but feel an overwhelming connection to nature and to history and to a power greater than yourself when you're standing on ice that was formed by snow that fell four hundred years ago.
You move me
Like a glacier, baby
Invisible to see
Like a glacier, baby
Unlike the river's fury
Running shallow and fast
Or the waterfall's drama
Never meant to last
Or the deadly still lake
So thoughtful and deep
Or the restless ocean
Too fitful to sleep
You move me
Like a glacier, baby
Invisible to see
Like a glacier, baby
Like glaciers carve up mountains
And rip the valleys apart
You go right through me
Straight to my heart
Like a ten-ton boulder
I am pulled along
A mighty force of nature
Your love's so strong
Measured in centuries
Not by the hour
Resistance is futile
To your ageless power
You move me
Like a glacier, baby
Invisible to see
Inexorably
Your love carries me
Like a glacier, baby
Copyright 1998 Danger Boy Productions
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