Dallas Callaway

19th century Denmark and 21st century Canada share many similarities. Chief among them, their typical winter climates, their real or perceived status as cultural backwaters, and their geographical proximity to more boisterous nation states/juggernauts.

SK’s epitaph (from Hans Adolph Brorson, 1694-1764) reads (roughly): In a little while I shall have won Then the whole battle Will at last be done And I may rest In bowers of roses And unceasingly And unceasingly Speak with my Jesus.

11 November marks 169 years since Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) passed away at Fredericks Hospital, København, and 2 years since I was able to visit SK’s (after whom my son takes his baptismal name) final resting place at Assistens Kirkegård with my father.