It is a commonplace myth in contemporary critical thinking that there is no such thing as place. Anyone who says this has not watched the coyotes return from a night hunting in […]
Coyote My Brother
Harold Rhenisch
www.haroldrhenisch.com
Seeing in the Fourth Dimension
Because my camera can’t see well, it sees this when I look up … Staghorn Sumac Against the Sky But because it flattens out light and dimension, it reveals pattern that my […]
The Use of Poetry
Folktale is a funny kind of memory. It remembers what bodies remember, but not what the mind makes of that. That is a different tradition. These things have consequences, though. If writing […]
The Kingfisher and the Menhir
I went down to the estuary today, to see how the world was doing there, deep in the valley fog. The ripples in the water below are from a kingfisher trying to […]
A Meditation on Respect
After 150 years on the Plateau, the struggle between the Syilx commons and the private property of Settler culture has become institutionalized. On the foundation that cities are representations of historical and […]
Northern Oregon and the Cold War
Here’s a map of Oregon from 1846. The line that divides it in half is the proposed border along the 49th parallel, that became law twelve years later and separated British and […]
The Ethics of Living on the Earth
Canada administrates half of my land as a nation state. The United States administrates the other half. Within Canada, the region called British Columbia administrates half of my land in terms of […]
Holding Light in Your Hand
You can hold the sun in your hand. Really. Just pick a leaf in the fall. Once photosynthesis has shut down, the photons of the sun stay there for a short time, […]
The Beauty of Fog
The Okanagan Valley markets summer. Summer is an ancient European idea that has a lot of currency in Canada, where there’s a lot of winter, and very little in Guatemala, where there’s […]
Celebrating the Apricot
Today, a moment of joy. Remember the apricots of a year ago? Tilton Apricots, Lower Keremeos, Similkameen Valley The great preserving cot of the West. And remember the ones of this August, […]
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