This is a post about the gently rolling hills of the shallows of an ancient lake, that are no more. It is a place where herons survived cold winters by hunting mice. […]
The End of the Earth or Reconciliation? The Choice is Ours.
The Morning Mountain Speaks
The North East wall of the Cascades speaks the news daily with the rising sun above Keremeos. You can note the news yesterday before sunrise. Note the eagle’s beak dividing the […]
The Oregon Coast
In Warrenton… … note how new the sign is. Presumably, before this, there was no sign at all. That’s progress!
A Cascadian Symphony
At Rialto Beach, you make a musical instrument. It plays you, and you are the music. You might have left it as a message for the sea, but the sea will take […]
An Old Growth Forest in British Columbia
Usually, it’s one tree at a time, due to the limitations of cameras and just how small people are. In British Columbia, though, we have figured out how to see the whole […]
Cascadia: From Fish to Lumber to Tourism to …
We are on a path of social evolution. The salmon are gone, and the oysters were long go poisoned by the plutonium plants on the Columbia. The great lumber industry that followed […]
The Earth is Guiding Us
Trails are made by the land, and the eye in movement with the land, but not by the land alone. A trail down to flooded Columbia River at the McNary National […]
Why Does the Biggest Fir Tree Matter?
It’s alive. Here is the Lake Quinault Douglas Fir. You are looking at the bodies of thousands of salmon rising into the sky. That matters, but what also matters is that our […]
Social Closeness & Social Distance: the More-Than-Human Story
Let’s talk about the new geological age of the world, the Anthropocene, the “human epoch”, a time of extinctions and biosphere collapse driven by human activity. This doomsday scenario comes at the […]
When You Walk Through the Earth, She is Walking Through Herself
So many sacred spaces are heads. Now that the Earth has insistently re-entered human social lives, it might be best to get to know how to speak with her. Here are some […]
