We enter the 21st Century from a time of industrial fishing, clearcut forestry, shale frakking, and carbon trading. Because of almost universal human self interest, we have become an endangered species at […]
The Future Looks Like This
Go, Ogopogo, And Don’t Come Back No More!
There is a legend from the time when the British Empire owned this corner of North America, that says that the local people, the Syilx, claimed there was a monster in the […]
Winter Sunset
For weeks, I have been growing increasingly excited about the luminous, directionless white light that has been filtering down through the clouds. Yesterday, I pointed out how the sun is not yellow, […]
Summer in Winter and Winter in Summer!
It’s beautiful how things come together some times. Take the late summer flowering grassland gem, snow buckwheat … Snow Buckwheat in August Catching the sun on the eastern face of Turtle Mountain. […]
Flying Fish in the Grasslands
Winter cloud blows east off of the Pacific Ocean. When it strikes the Northwestern North American Coast it crests around the three thousand metre high peaks of the Coast Mountains … Photo: […]
An Unexpected Companion
Look who has been up in the ravine eating the bark off of choke cherry trees and now has places to go that entail a very slow walk across the face of […]
The World is Not What The Books Tell Us It Is
We need a new owner’s manual to the earth. For instance, vineyards are not about the sun. The darned vines spend as much time in the snow as they do with grapes […]
What it Means to Be Indigenous
It means: to be from a place. It doesn’t mean simply that you live there. It means that you and the place are one thing. For historical reasons, most Canadians and Americans […]
The Oceans We Live In
We are at sea. There is no solid ground. It’s time to stop thinking about soil. Here’s one ocean. It is an ocean of air. Orchard Machinery Riding the Waves The ground-up […]
Idle No More Versus the Nationalists
It’s time to take a deep breath, together. Everyone Breathe at Once! Bilbo’s Bog. Larch Hills Attempts to discredit the Idle No More movement seem to be ramping up. Here’s a particularly […]
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