For the past week, we’ve been following Vancouver Winter Olympics- speed skaters Apolo Ohno and Chicago’s Shani Davis, downhill skier Lindsey Vonn, and the Inukshuk.  The Inukshuk is a stacked rock in human form which the Inuit people used as guideposts for direction across the vast horizons of the Canadian Arctic. The Vancouver Olympic committee chose a contemporary version of this symbol which they call  Ilanaaq, the Inuktitut word for friend.

Inukshuk scupture

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