21 September 2025
from the editor
In a world that can feel more fragmented each day, we at floe MAGAZINE choose to witness the fragments – all the tiny shards of our days that, like us, seem small and inconsequential, but are crucial to the whole.
Fragment. A hatchling pigeon, hours out of the shell, shaken from its nest – naked, hairless, blind, yet wriggling on its tiny belly toward some place that, maybe, it innately perceives as safety. My fingers and thumbs are barely able to restore it to the nest.
Fragment. Three smiling teenagers next to their parked car at the side of the road near a wildlife refuge, respectfully photographing a strayed turtle; knowing well enough to watch and then walk away, because not every occasion in nature invites human intervention.
Fragment.
the image on the cover
of our first issue appears with thanks to the USGS (United States Geological Survey):
“Red and black seem to mar the icy glacial landscape of southern Iceland. The gray-black filaments are past glacial melting outbursts called jökulhlaups. These abrupt flooding events gush down this outwash plain called Skeiðarársandur, one of the world’s largest. The Skeiðarárjökull Glacier reaches down from the top left of the image. The plain is mostly devoid of vegetation, but red coloring indicates low moss, birch shrub, and other grass species.”