The word mantra has appeared in 215 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 21 in “Greenland Wants You to Visit. But Not All at Once” by Gabriel Leigh:
Greenland is still a place where “the weather decides” can be a liberating mantra — once we accept that we’re powerless to do anything about the weather, we can give up control. And when we do, anything can happen.
For me, a delayed flight turned into an expedition onto a mountain. And then in Nuuk, with my packed schedule of outings wiped clean, I was free to wander, ducking into a pub that seemed straight out of old Denmark, dining on a plate of surprisingly affordable giant snow crab legs, and visiting the national museum to learn how Indigenous Greenlanders thrived in the harsh conditions a thousand years ago, long before the kind of heat I had in that igloo.
It wasn’t exactly the Greenlandic experience I’d planned, but it was the kind of adventure that endures.
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