Because this is a country built around a mix of public and private property, and built especially upon long-distance communication from across the continent and the oceans, the dominance of transportation ensures […]
Is this the mariposa lily? Or is this? The light remains. It gives us gravity, or draws the mind forward so it sees the light within the body, if you will. Similarly, […]
When spooked, run into the open, scan the distance … … and then, rather than following the open grass, step behind a sagebrush and disappear. After that, you dominate the side of […]
One could call the stones in the shore of Big Bar Lake below “wet.” They have been taken into the power of “wetting”, or wætur. They have, in other words, been wetted. […]
As we learn again to speak as beings that draw our being from the earth, it’s good to go out in the afternoon light and see what catches us. A feral squiggly […]
In the morning, we are blinded by fog, which is to say we are blended by it. It’s not that we can’t see out, which is a modern, directional way of thinking, […]
Water mixes with light. And then… … water mixes with light. After that… … Earth mixes in with water and light. And when that’s done, they separate again. In many […]
Summer is over. The seductive music of elsewhere is looking like a confused, lost art form on the streets of Penticton. While on the streets of Okanagan Falls, the retirement homes of […]
Imagine constructing a “human” “social” “environment” that includes neither stars nor rain. Imagine calling it a “human” “social” “environment.” These two images are part of a language our bodies still know how […]
In 1981, I discovered an apple, growing in a ditch on Benvoulin Road in Kelowna. I got some grafting wood before the tree was cut down in the spring. She is growing […]
