The trees… Botanical Garden, Akureyri … give way. They recognize each other. The snow… 1:30 p.m. in Laugaland, Iceland … gives way to houses. 2 p.m. near Grund They recognize each […]
The Energy Shifters
Harold Rhenisch
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Taking a Second Look: It is Not Erosion
This is how we change the world. We change the world. Mullein Changing the World on Some Crushed Gravel Leftover from Road-Building This is going on across the slope of a gravel […]
The Unity of Land, Water and Sky
The balance between water and other forms of energy is written on the land. It is written in colour and form, down to the finest level of correspondence. You cannot say: […]
A Poetics of the Earth
This is an indispensable book for all people in the Pacific Northwest. Whether we are gatherers, farmers, Indigenous or settler, poets, novelists or government planners, this is a book that shows us […]
Sheltering on the Open Range
Well, you can shelter in the strength of the Earth and shelter as well in how you read that as the balance that is often called beauty. Or you can shelter from it […]
Are We Coming or Going?
That is the question. At any rate, as this view from Dogtown shows, humans prefer artificial bodies over real ones…but use them with disregard. Was human slavery built on any different principles? […]
Found On Road Dead: Farming in the Throwaway Culture
Here’s the view from Dogtown, a métis town being gentrified in the midst of the White Okanagan. The capitalization of investment, such a dominant myth in the colonial power here, Canada, leads […]
A Message from Dogtown
The little town of sx̌ʷəx̌ʷnitkʷ, known as Okanagan Falls today, used to be called Dogtown, after Sqexe7, or “Dog Lake” (aka “Horse Lake”, because what is a horse but a big dog?) There […]
For the Love of Life, and Property, Too
Trees have mastered the ability to make three-dimensional space out of flat energy, raising it up above the Earth. September Aspens at Big Bar Lake There, the flat energy spreads, not by […]
Leaves, and Life after Life
Each leaf is the trace of the ongoing reach of Leafing energy, or life. Each is a face of Flat energy, which is the energy we know as Floating. All things pass […]
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