You see, it goes like this. There are human people and there are other people, and some of those are horses, except it’s not clear which ones, the human people or the […]
The Solar Horses of Iceland
Humans on Drugs
Humans are addicted. This group of highly social animals that operates on the assumption that it has free will is as tightly a part of ecosystems as the plants in this image […]
Spirit of the Land
I had a moving experience in Iceland today. I can’t wait to work through this form of practice back home in the Okanagan. It strikes me that here, at last, is a […]
Iceland and Canada: the Rust Belt
Some say Canada’s Chilcotin, some say Iceland’s Sudurdalur, but the effect of farming in a non-manufacturing country is the same: your profits are spent on rust, and you never get ahead, because […]
Four Dimensional Photography
That’s right: 4-D. The patterns in this stream are not ripples of light tossed around by waves on the water’s surface. The surface of this tiny stream at Kjarvalhvammur, Iceland is covered […]
The Invention of Nature
Nature didn’t always exist. Unlike most manufactured products, though, it wasn’t stamped out of a plastic mould in a factory in China, or even poured into a mould in an old factory […]
Urban Planning Back to Basics
You know how when you’re making the run from the town you live in to the town you want to get to and there’s this great big empty space in between, and […]
Where Words Make Sense
Every day I rise 15 minutes earlier with the earlier sun. Today that was around 4:30 a.m. It’s not the light, but a different pull. When I draw the curtains, the sun […]
Canada in Turmoil
The 20th Century was supposed to belong to Canada, said former Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier. Well, that’s over. Now it is time for the earth. Okanagan Falls Vineyard in the Fall The […]
A Lesson from Iceland
When the vikings came to Iceland in the 10th Century, the place was rich with birch, willow and mountain ash forests. Eventually they burnt them all — to stay warm, to cook […]
Okanagan Okanogan 