The Hard, Cold Wisdom of Life Below Zero
The residents of Port Protection, Alaska, are living a fuller life than you.
Life Below Zero, Port Protection is compelling television. Stunning, deep green forests. Beautiful, majestic mountains jutting from the ocean. Silvery-gray clouds. Wet snow. Barnacled boats. Orca whales surfacing. Salmon running. Wolves hunting. Bears staring: It all impacts the viewer.
And then the weathered, resolute souls who reside there. Bodies broken to various degrees, but with spirits strong, these isolated Alaska residents live off the grid. Old souls, they are: Curly is a logger. Sam is a fisherman. Litzi lost her arm to cancer as a teenager, and then both her sons died just in the last few years. Gary is a seventy-five year old trapper. They are living their lives fully — active and engaged — awakened souls who live off the land.
Old timers, they are. It is not about money — it is about the land and the sea. The planet has taught them lesson after lesson, and that is reflected in everything they do. Isolated far from cities, they are not college-educated folk. But they have learned from the land. And they have learned from the sea. And they have learned from loss. They are better than you and I. And they are more alive than you and I.
