The european fern meets the Plateau sage. They enter the cold together. One holds below the ground. One holds in the sky. To both, the cold is nothing. As you can see, […]
Harold Rhenisch
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The Sun at Work
The sun reveals the shape of darkness. That’s its work. With light, heat, radiation and even gravity, that’s what it does. The earth rises to it. Even when it falls. Movement is […]
The True Gift
Before it is received, it is an offering. After it is received, it requires an offering. One gives oneself. Nothing else will do.
Ripeness
It’s not something to eat. It is a way. I’m following it for a bit. If I lose a few words for a few days for the next few weeks, talk to […]
Autumn and the Wind
Thoreau called images like the ones below “autumnal”. He described the ripeness of such leaves at great length. He called them fruits. Keats did much the same. He called them mellow fruitfulness, on the […]
Do We Need Art?
This is not story telling. It is bodies. This is story telling. It is about turning away from bodies towards artificial ones. Is art an invasive species?
The Secret of Apple Pie
This is pie. It is apple pie. Apple pie is the best. Dinner, dessert and especially breakfast, apple pie it is. But a Perkins apple pie just won’t do, not even when it’s served by […]
A Cake for Old Friends and New Harvests, Gardener Approved
This is the cake my grandmother made. I used to walk 2 miles for a piece of it. 50 metres of that was across a 15 cm. wide set of planks nailed […]
Rejoicing with the Gardener
Ah, Autumn! Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. And one lone Bramley hanging out with her friends. The front garden beside them is putting on a fall show. Vetch is dragging the old […]
Bioregional Literature, Out of the Box: a dissection of ecocritical culture
Here’s a beautiful ecocritical conference. Wouldn’t it be great to go? Critical Approaches to Bioregional Literature of the Great Lakes Basin (June 20-24 2017, Detroit) http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu/conference.html It’s about rust. […]
Okanagan Okanogan 