Here’s an image I made at Nicomen Falls in the spring of 2017. The river had a way of talking, as you can see, and I responded by pushing the image close […]
Two Years at Nicomen Falls
Joy in the Week of Bees and Wind
When the wind is a bee. Filbert catkins, waiting for the wind. When a bee is the wind. Well, a wasp, but what a tiny beauty with her fur stole! […]
Wood, Esh and the Altars of the Mind
Yesterday, I introduced you to thick energy. Today, I would like to show you how it can be put to use. First, there’s the method I touched on yesterday, the method of […]
Thick Energy, Earth Intelligence and Nicomen Falls
A vital organ of Earth intelligence is thick energy. It’s quite impervious to the machinations of artificial intelligence. Here’s some. Nicomen Falls Nlaka’pamux Illahie Now for a wander through the energy form. […]
Guardian of the Ancient Trail
Here’s a trail leading from an ancient camp at the foot of a mysterious canyon complex crisscrossed by deer trails, cool with water in a hot land, and sprouting berries and herbs. […]
Transformers in the Nicola Valley
Some things are simple. They really are. They might be the hardest things, but they’re still simple. Let’s say you have a flow, a place where energy squeezed out of the earth […]
Will You Decide to Stay?
If you’re looking for nature, why not go to the Chasm? A whole continental glacier drained out through here not that long ago. But if you’d rather get to know yourself, why […]
Answering the Call
There is an art to being noticed. First, you make a gesture from a place where you have deposited your attention in the past. Then you respond to it. As the two […]
Training the Eye Training the Mind
Ásmundar Sveinsson’s Troll Woman is called art, although it is an example of a kind of technical device which allows the eye to think by processing bodily shape in manners native to the eye’s […]
Thought and Memory are the Body Thinking
Before the cognitive mind does its wonders, body and eye do their thinking. This is thinking without cognition. They don’t need it. Traditions of cognitive thinking will analyze such thought. They might […]
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