This is a folded land. Not all lands are made like that, but this one is. We can expect folds from it, and lines of energy, planes tilted up at odd angles, […]
Walking With Bears: a meditation on the place of ecocritical writing today
Harold Rhenisch
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Poets, It is Time for the Real Work Now
Here’s Okanagan Lake, an over-deepened fjord lake full of fossil water just down from my house. It’s the remnant of a much deeper lake, called Glacial Lake Penticton. The top of the green […]
The Species That Hates Gravity
Russian olive making an arc against gravity. Turkey vulture making an arc against gravity. Human trail, making an arc around gravity at Palouse Falls. Red Osier Dogwood using a ladder of carbon […]
What Would Our Sons and Daughters Want for a World?
I mentioned yesterday that it is the genius of science that it separates the components of a scene in order to be able to say what it does know and what it […]
What’s Smarter than Humans
Because it is the genius of science to separate moments of the world into their components, the view below is commonly seen as a pair of robins (and a finch) perching in […]
Love a Bear Today: A Cariboo Saga
A year ago, I showed these berries. This year, I tasted them. They taste like this: You can be the wasp, if you like, but it’s really standing in for a bear. […]
What Changes are Happening in the Earth?
That’s what a Secwepemc man asked me on an evening like this, with this view in front of us. What is the earth doing? He didn’t mean, what are people doing to […]
Bringing the Salmon Home to sx̌ʷəx̌ʷnitkʷ
It is the time of the year when the sun ripens. Whether it is smooth sumac… … sedums storing sunlight during the day to eat it at night … … wild gooseberry […]
Clever Cariboo Birdhouse
Sturdiness is a prime attribute for construction on the high plateau. Cleverness is better. After all, there are hawks.
What Aspens Can Teach Us
Aspens are powerful, because they are many and one: many trunks from one underground life. These are not individuals. They aren’t even trees. They are individual expressions of wholeness. We do well […]
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