Petrochemical agriculture is a program that uses statistical risk assessment to balance the need of farmers to extract a capital profit out of farming commensurate with the profit to be extracted from […]
Time Travel Gone Bad
Seeing is Breathing
To see the spirit of a tree, look in the water. There is a movement.That movement is the tree. It is a form of breathing. It is there the tree reveals […]
The Spirit of the Rowan Tree
In each season, the rowan takes on a different spirit. Now, it is the time for the hummingbirds. Sure, we could say that trees, especially trees with exposed dead twigs, are one […]
Cascadia: Where the Sea Breaks on the Land
Cascadia is the place where water, air and land meet …. … in waves …. … and boundaries. The stones here … … are also part of the mixing of water and […]
The Earth Tastes Good
Even if it’s just your hunger talking. Even if your antlers are coming in unbalanced. Mind and body are one.
Not Quite a Lonely Vigil
Someday the rowan berries are going to be ripe. Until then, there’s a robin waiting, still, as he was at first leaf. But now, not alone. A hummer! I’m […]
Cascadia: Earthquakes Lifted into the Sky
Look at the earthquake lifted into the sky. Plus a couple hunks of mid-oceanic volcanic islands, a lump of an underwater sea monster out of kwakwaka’wakw ancestral time, and a heron hunkering […]
Let’s Expand the Notion of “What is Life”
That is alive, I think that’s easy to agree on. We call it a sedum, drawn up out of soil by the sun. This, too. Like the sedum, this one is self-replicating, hence the […]
We are Marmot!
Do rocks collect saskatoons because they are focal points of life in the story of the land? Or because they collect heat and rain? It’s a question that goes to […]
Some Flowers Are More Beautiful After They Have Bloomed
Like poplar catkins, for instance. Here they are with dandelions…… and with weird freaky roadside grass .. … with poplar leaves and light … … and, heck, might as well throw in […]
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