As part of my ongoing discussion about how different traditions of creativity lead to different human-earth relationships and, ultimately, different earths, I’d like to introduce you to some ideas I learned while […]
Sufic Creativity
Indigenous Creativity in the Pacific Northwest
Some cultures are so ancient that they watched the glaciers come and go 10,000 years ago. So it is with the Syilx culture of today’s Colville Confederated Tribes. Once the ice melted […]
Creativity in Iceland
Iceland was long isolated from the rest of Europe and maintained ancient, pre-industrial modes of creativity, economics and land use long after they had been rendered obsolete elsewhere. Many parts of Icelandic culture […]
Why It’s Important to Talk About Creativity
Over the past month I’ve exploring human identities and creativity and their impact on the environment. I do this because I have brothers and sisters, not just humans (but humans, too, including you), […]
Bald Eagle Above Kalamalka Lake
Today, I have been seen by the spirit of the air. I like that.
Blackbird’s Spring: January 21, 2016
So, you’ve beaten the rush and have come back to your ancestral marsh to find human habitations and gravel fill — and snow!!! — right in the middle of it, gawwwwd. What’s […]
Are You an Evergreen Hawk or a Deciduous Hawk?
It depends on how poplar you want to be. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Spring is a Location, Not a Time
On the grassland slopes, it is created by life bringing the sun to itself. You don’t have to wait.
German and American Creativity and the Fate of the Earth
The word “creativity” is American and expresses American culture. If you’re ever in a position to hear this word, be assured, you are in the United States, or some form of it. […]
Coyotes Dancing, You Come Too
Looks just like a pile of gravel, eh. Na, see those coyote tracks on the left? These ones? They come from several directions. Even from, sort of, this one (on the […]
Okanagan Okanogan 