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A meditation on the northern lights and why we live where the air hurts our faces
Increased solar activity has made auroras more frequent and vivid, seen clearly away from city lights in a rural North Dakota home, offering a valued tradeoff to city comforts.
- On Nov. 12, 2025, Jenny Schlecht and her daughters watched the northern lights in rural Medina, North Dakota, their shadows stretching across the yard while stars shone through the glow.
- Away from city lights, the renewed solar storms have made the northern lights more vivid, prompting Jenny Schlecht and her family to watch repeatedly.
- On a recent night, the second in a row of solar storms, the sky lit up intensely and Jenny Schlecht and her daughters stepped outside repeatedly despite temperatures that dip below zero.
- The family accepts missing city perks in exchange for repeated natural rewards like frequent auroras, while the narrator says these sightings are a reward for enduring isolation and darkness in the coming months.
- Cultural references to the aurora emphasize local meaning, with C.W. McCall's song evoking aurora imagery and Chris Ledoux's music reflecting why local residents live remotely to see the aurora borealis.
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A meditation on the northern lights and why we live where the air hurts our faces
A few years back, in Phoenix, my Uber driver from the airport to the site of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association's annual meeting in Scottsdale wanted to know about the weather in North Dakota and how cold it had been when I left. He had never felt temperature below zero, and he didn't think he'd want to feel it. But there was mystique about the north for him. "Have you ever seen the northern lights?" he asked, somewhat wistfully. I told …
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