I want some. The hair, too!
The Advantage of Bohemian Waxwing Ankle Joints
Recipe for Life
Slide the land 100 kilometres over a volcanic island. Blow it all up. Spew molten rock. Let it cool for 55 million years. Add snow.Then sun. See what happens. The water erupts into fire! […]
Seeing in the Dark, Part II
Yesterday I proposed that the science of light and the world it allows humans to see … … was a deduction, a creative act, so to speak, not a leap of faith […]
Seeing in the Dark: A Meditation on Science, Art and Human Nature…part 1
I was walking the other day, as I like to do (it’s a way of thinking and breathing at the same time), when I felt myself walking into something and, you know, I […]
Colour
On a cloudy day it is clear that light doesn’t appear as intensity of energy, because that is equal everywhere. Intensity appears as colour. And that is enough. Look at it […]
Starlings on the Moon
What can I say. It’s a beautiful thing.
The Waxwings Are Here!
Imagine, you’re a crabapple tree, just hanging out. Kind of a foggy day. Then it happens! The waxwings are coming! And they are here, covering every tree in sight, taking turns to […]
Greenhouses Made Out of Snow
The coyotes come on by in the fog. Heavy coyote traffic, really. Birds trit trot through.Mule Deer stalk along. And the grasses and sages use the energy from these travellers and peck-peckers… … […]
A Crown of Rowans for St. Brigid’s Feast Day
Today, I praise the rowan tree. This is her season, as ice breaks to the season of water and birds. Rowans with Elf Stone, Eyjafjörðursveit, Ísland She’s a tree, yes, but look how she […]
The Sacred Rowan
When trees are sacred, the earth doesn’t turn into a desert. And birds come, too, out of the air.
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