Red is traditionally the colour of life and power. It is associated with blood. For this, a belief in the power of redness is scoffed at in scientific circles, in which it […]
Harold Rhenisch
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A Gift for the Children
If you would like to teach your children or grandchildren how to continue settler culture, the culture of the Hudson’s Bay Company and its network of fur-trading forts in what it termed […]
Resisting Climate Change Catastrophe One Bird at a Time
Let’s talk about what we can do. Want to control carbon? Plant a tree. Come back in fifty years.That’s what living on the Earth is all about. If you don’t want to […]
Cross Dressing Snow Man Meets the Earth
Here’s a bit of spontaneous sculpture along the Gray Canal, leftover from some kind of New Year’s Celebration. Note the discarded noise maker. Here’s another bit of spontaneous sculpture, on the […]
Winter Light Reveals The Map of sx̌ʷəx̌ʷnitkʷ
Below is a powerful map of Southern Okanagan Lake and the Okanogan River, on its route to the Columbia at Brewster. It shows clearly how settlers navigate from one colonial strong point […]
The Old Year and the New Year Open As One in the Grass
When we see a head, the head sees us. Together we are a moment of seeing. Perhaps you are used to using the word “rock” for a head like this? Perhaps “boulder”? […]
Look at Our Sisters Waiting for the Sun
Look at the sun far below, waiting for their water! Look at them all, waiting for the wind!
Cold and Warm Climate Adaptations 2
Earlier today, I mentioned that we could develop the cold/warm climate adaptations of our grasslands into new technologies, especially if we shed the idea that technology is a gadget-driven art. That would […]
Cold and Warm Climate Adaptations
Here in the winter of settler culture, the cold people, aka lichens, are in bloom. This is their time of glory, when the sun is warm in the thin surface layer above […]
The Call for Blessing, and Its Answer
After the call for blessing has worked, it still hangs as a potent memory of its ongoing power, and joy in being able to take part in the great circle of the […]
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