Beams of light, we say, meaning lines. Dusk on the Big Bar Esker Beams of light, we say… …meaning trees. A beam is a Baum, the Germans say, a bough, they say […]
Beyond the Settler Gaze
Salt Lake in the Cariboo
Salt Lakes, that live from snow and evaporate in the sun, are terrible for cattle but great for humans, being sacred and all. Long Lake, Canoe Creek Illahie They are a fine […]
The Watcher and the Watched
What you see sees you. This makes no sense if seeing is identified as an personal act, but if sight is present, like light, then both the seer and the seen are […]
Slow Breathing… Very Slow.
Ah, the sun. Here, you can see it leaving its molten body for a day in the sky. The colour shift indicates a change in mood. It’s not that at night it […]
Time Among the Trees
In silhouette, a tree is a web. Call this the accumulation of time, all at once. In full sun, it is a mysterious process of branching. Call this the process of entering […]
A Gift of Thanks
Up above Yellow Pond… …I was watching the succulent sun under my feet. And learning a few things from the bunchgrass. And other people. All the time, I was […]
Disappearing Forests
Is it the home of my ancestors? Or more inward and mysterious and soaked with light, just metres away? Or both at once? Then again, here in Secwépemc Territory, it is often […]
Fishing for the Sun
Catching the sun might seem easy. It moves quickly, though. And has no clear source. Is it here? Is it there? Some choose to just wait. Others realize that it’s not about […]
Sunrise from the Bottom Up
Just because humans are vertical pillars with the seeing bits at the top doesn’t mean the world works from the top down, too. Or from the bottom up, for that matter.
What’s in a Name, Nodding Onion?
There are at least a couple different conceptions of the role of women in landscape in these parts. In English, a language that observes this place, she is the “onion” that lowers […]
