07/23/2025
There's a photo I took recently while at Katmai National Park in Alaska that I can't stop looking at—a close-up of a grizzly bear, asleep with its head resting gently on one massive arm. Its thick fur looks impossibly soft, its claws curled like punctuation marks in a long, drowsy sentence. What gets me most, though, is the bear’s eye—just barely cracked open, as if it’s still half-aware of the world, but not quite willing to engage with it....
There’s a photo I took recently while at Katmai National Park in Alaska that I can’t stop looking at—a close-up of a grizzly bear, asleep with its head resting gently on one massive arm…
