Today, sober reflection. Tomorrow, a celebration. Kind of a small difference, eh. When the 5,000-year-old rattlesnake den on the hill was blasted away to make room for the luxury view homes the […]
Cultural Evolution in a Post-Canadian Landscape
Vernon Winter Carnival Parade 2018
Everyone gets to put on a show. Blocks the street, though. Rush hour.
Artificial Intelligence and You: Part 2
So, artificial intelligence, eh. On Monday, I introduced some thoughts about it, here: https://okanaganokanogan.com/2018/01/29/artificial-intel…e-and-you-part-1/ Today, an exploration of the language surrounding artificial intelligence. If it sounds like a language game, and as […]
Okanagan Woman and Magic
Strange, the things that come in the mail all on their own. There I was reading over coffee, looking over a manuscript about this valley, and thinking about the mail. So I […]
Fall Rain in the Grasslands
So, it rains, right. 35 centimetres of snow have already melted. Now the rain. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. And the sun. Melting stuff, even through the clouds of rain. So, […]
The Power of Names and Stories
Take this (no name, please)… See that rock in back there? That’s this (below, centre of image, again no name, please.): Now, look at the name it is unofficially known by (Sorry. […]
Saying the Names Shanty Makes the CBC Poetry Prize Shortlist
The journey you have been walking with me on this blog is making its way further out into the world. What great news! CBC Books has announced its shortlist for the 2017 […]
How An Ecosystem Works: The Daisy Model
If you want to find beetles, give them a soft bed, the complementary shape to a beetle, and wait. They will come, because they made you that way.
Of Fur Coats and Google: Okanagan Style
Either this … … or Google’s algorhythmic reductions. Both are images of the human mind frozen in time.
People of the Wind
One after another,the grassland opens further. Something is ripening here. It’s easy to share space if you are thin, and working on rhythms of opening and closing that intersect at the point […]
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