It is possible to talk to a flower. Like this: With nothing before you but a flower, you can deduce that a flower is a series of specialized leaves, opening not just […]
Two Ways to Approach a Flower: Outing Goethe and Heidegger One Bloom at a Time
I Have a Quince to Give Away. Want one?
Want one? A rufuous hummingbird visited this one today, a few times. What a beaut he was.]. This could be your future, too! With thorns, yes, but with lumpy fruits and exquisite […]
Natural Economy
Here’s a pair of poplar flower brackets, showing us the origins of economy. If you look at the buds, you can see they come in groups of one, all dark and pointed, […]
Siyaʔ at Work
Look at the great food chief bursting in fountains out of the Earth. And remember, it does not all happen right now. This is just a stage. Last year̓’s fruit has brought […]
Of Kant and the Environment
On March 29, 1781, the philosopher Immanuel Kant sat at his writing desk in Königsberg, East Prussia, and opened his new book, A Critique of Pure Reason. Spring clouds were building over […]
When is a Rose Not a Rose?
Why, when it is a rose window. Count the petals. And again: In the second window, the bricked-in one, the one just above, the petals form a cross, but in the top […]
Time for Apricots, Bees and Spiders
Exploring Dry Water
Here’s some strange water. Do you see it there, between the wet clouds and the wet lake? It’s within the force that’s drawing Okanagan Lake into the sky. Here again, on a […]
Squeezing Water from a Stone
In today’s world, folk (indigenous, ie “of the land”) understandings are redefined to accord with the social authority that accompanies the process called science. In this revolutionary society, attempting to create a […]
Paul Terbasket’s Apricot Tree Has a Visitor
Remember our elders? Remember how resilient they are? https://okanaganokanogan.com/2019/03/28/the-glory-that-is-paul-terbaskets-apricot-tree/ Remember when we went pruning on Paul’s 100+-year-old apricot tree at Blind Creek? Remember how the trees grew and grew, with a chance […]
Okanagan Okanogan 