Let me show you the problem with that. Here’s the hill. Nice, huh. Voles till it. Gophers. Weasels from time to time. Coyotes. Yes, Coyotes. Rototillers of the West! Nothing to complain […]
So, You Don’t Like Plastic Bags, Right?
The Earth Will Be Saved By Leaking Waterpipes
They call it a mud puddle, but, shucks, the frogs were croaking up that way a few weeks back. Wear a long shirt after dusk. The little floating logs are mosquitoes. No wings […]
Ancestral Memory and Poetry
People write poetry for many reasons. Any that is written is not poetry, though, but an incantation that allows for poetry, a force within the universe, to appear. People cannot be taught […]
Stories R Us
Story-telling, eh. Ain’t that the art form. Just 500 metres away, telling the following scene as a narrative, though … … is, literally, to tell it as a narrative, although it is nothing of […]
Unity
The sun comes down to earth… … grows bright …. … fades … …and then the sky … … comes down to earth… … and begins immediately… … to climb back up. […]
Perhaps Calling it a Grassland is a Bad Idea
I mean, look. Bella Vista Hills
Simple New Cross Traffic Rules to Prevent Rush Hour Fatalities
Traffic coming the other way? Kind of dawwwwwwwdling in the middle of the lane?Not wearing contrasting clothing? Dogs and bicycles and people who hate people without legs coming soon? Here’s what to do […]
We Are Doing This Together
The bird that builds the nest builds it in the shape of its body, remembering the nest, and the egg, it comes from. Every moment with the earth is an […]
Hefted and Haunted and Home
Here’s a word that is worth bringing back into the language: heft. Its modern form indicates a weight, or heaviness, weighed by hand. No scale required. You lift a thing to get […]
What Crows Know About People in Cascadia
When Coyote trades his eyes for pebbles like Crow’s below, he can’t see a thing. It’s very funny. Each pebble is the world. Hard to choose! Each one really is the world. […]
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