Many vital communities are called “hunter-gatherer” communities. That is not it at all! They are often societies of gift and acceptance and re-gifting. Water and stone sculpt wood. The resulting shapes reveal […]
Harold Rhenisch
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The Feathered People of the Grass
The hen walks in the open, keeping her eye on you. Her chick passes through the grass, within her burbling call of warning. Without boundaries that manipulate the hidden and revealed and […]
Otter Goes Surfing
You don’t need a board to surf. Pshaw. Use the tail, man. Stabilization, that’s the thing. Easy. And should you turn to stone… … or sand … Mother Otter Herself … well, […]
It is Time to Make a Saskatoon Pie
This is the best harvest in 25 years. And you get the bonus of the robins scolding you, but there’s enough to share. If not a pie, then just saskatoons with your […]
After the Rain Leaves the Rain Forest It Returns to the Sun
Every few years I get to go to the Hoh Rainforest. The trees are lovely, and the moss is gorgeous, but, really, it’s the rain that catches my heart. Here’s some of […]
The Killer Whale That Swims Past Ozette Does Not Swim Alone
At Ozette, a man stands in the sea, up to his neck. A killer whale passes by. Actually, to read the story, you have to walk at low tide. Slowly, […]
The Path of the Orca and the Moon
Say, perhaps you’ve noticed a relationship between pools of water and pools of stone and without the colonial notion of gravity to steer your understanding of cause and effect into the patterns […]
Quick Light, Slow Light, Great Two-Sided Heart
The billions of years that are the intersection of Sun and Earth, which are all present at once and opening around us, can be viewed as new, arising in an instant and […]
Becoming Earth and Sea
Imagine, walking through your mind and finding yourself lying at your feet. There you are, washed over twice daily by the sea and twice by the sky. Western thought would call this […]
The Art of Finding Art
It’s a beautiful thing when humans make art. But let’s be honest: it’s a beautiful thing when they don’t. The patterning that art presents can be done without being a portrait of […]
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