I have just received news that I am getting an award from the INlL . NA/US (the Icelandic National League. North America/United States.
“The Joan Inga Eyolfson Cadham Award was established in 2017 to recognize individuals who have been outstanding in the promotion of Icelandic culture and heritage by way of literature, arts, or media.”
I’m being given travel and accommodation as well as registration to the AGM where the award will be presented. This makes me feel better, as if my unsung efforts to create, edit, write and produce the quarterly news letter have been appreciated—though I needed help with the formatting, which I cannot do. That’s not why I got this. I think I told you I gave the copyright to one of my books (Letters to Icelanders: Exploring the Northern Soul) to the ICCT (Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto) as a fund-raiser for my home chapter to publish and sell, keeping the royalties. I didn’t realize it would be so much work for them to publish a new edition but they did it and the book is out now just as it was but with a new cover and a few words of explanation from me and Gwen Morgan, the current ICCT President. It looks lovely.
There are people I must tell—my family. It will be nice for them to hear something other than my dull lockdown complaints. And my doctor to see if I can go. I will exercise more to gather strength for the trip. Walking is always good. And I will write something other than lockdown complaints. A carrot has been put in front of this donkey’s nose.
I am so grateful.
That’s quite enough for today.