In water, an island is an eye of land giving sight to water. On land, an island is a pool of water giving life to air. Grasslands are oceanic environments. Deer surf.
Surfing the Island Archipelagoes of the Okanagan
The Great Artwork
This is what the present looks like. You can see how a 100,000,000 year old seabed, lifted into the sky by a collision with North America and silted up with the drift […]
How to Travel in Time, Seriously: an Indigenous Journey
Well, to travel in time, you could just wait, like this stink bug on this mustard. Here it is, three generations ago: It’s blending in better now! European thinking holds that we […]
What It’s Like to Belong to an Ecosystem
So, remember the early moons of the year, when Siya? (Saskatoon) was opening out of winter’s buds that she held in offering on her stems? Well, look at the offering now: light. […]
The White Bees of Autumn and the Blue Weeds
Be ethical, please. Plant weeds. They’re the only thing keeping the earth going right now, this group of plants that reclaim broken land — and save the sacred people of the earth […]
Slow Fire in the Okanagan
It has been a summer of fast fires, burning off the growth of a century throughout the grasslands and fire forests between the mountain ranges of the North East Pacific Coast. While […]
Too Young To Shoot
One of the curious results of mixing houses with farmland is that farmers, or their designates, can shoot deer, with bows or crossbows, in areas otherwise closed to hunting. The deer know […]
When Home is an Eye…
… it is also a mouth. Spider Funnel in Old Growth Douglas Fir, Stamp River
American Dipper Among the Salmon
This is the bird that weaves the worlds of water, air and stone. It walks into the water and out of it again. To Dipper, these worlds are one. Deep under the […]
Indigenous or Aboriginal or Both or Neither, eh?
The Prime Minister of Canada, the colonial power in this space, spoke to the UN the other day about the need for Canada to reconcile itself with its aboriginal peoples. Notice that […]
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