The Thule reed teaches in the winter, not in the spring or summer. At that time, it is not fully opened yet. It is the knot below that it is opening […]
The Gifts of Winter
Keeping Water
In the November sun, the mullein’s hairs soften its outline in the light. They hold the plant’s water and keep it from the sun. They keep it. In the December fog, the […]
Let’s Not Overthink Things
The simplest gestures… … speak most deeply. Only bodies speak. Words are only gestures that guide memory to them. From there, we are on our own.
The Energy Shifters
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
Let the Sun Be Our Guide
The hips of the wild rose are red so that we will see them, pick them, and carry their seeds with us. Other people, like deer and birds, are targeted in the […]
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