The universe is mapped out in the bark of Ponderosa pines. I spent many afternoons in my childhood trying to read them, but haven’t figured it out yet. It’s a pleasing way […]
Wisdom Maps
Chief Joseph’s Bell
Let us remember in these cold months, that the earth is alive… Young Salmon, Hanford Reach, Columbia River … that multiple generations and species share flows of energy, not space or land […]
Idle No More
The Idle No More movement has my full support. Incredibly enough, the Prime Minister of Canada and his Indian Affairs Minister, both tasked with the care of the Queen’s subjects and her […]
Gate and Path
We have passed through the impassable gate… Farm Gate, Orchard Hill … and walked the sacred earth, Mare, Reykjanesviti Lighthouse, Iceland …to rest… Sheepdog at Work, Laugur, Iceland … and hold the […]
Solstice, and the Wisdom of the Trees
Solstice. The sun is going through a tiny hole into the darkness today and out again tomorrow. It’s not a flower, exactly. It’s just the sun. It has been a beautiful journey […]
Time Travellers, Dancers, and Evolution
Instead of a science that looked at precise instants in time, constructed out of exact measurements of the kind that gave civilization (so to speak) photography, the poet Goethe proposed a science […]
Natural Lenses
The human eye is a lens. It is a just one among many adaptations of the energy fields of water molecules. Water lenses abound on this planet. Cat Tail and Water […]
Seeing Through Rock
How do you know there’s a lake behind the hill? Like this: View Over the Commonage Towards Kalamalka Lake, Vernon Just keep watching. That’s the trick. View Over the Commonage Towards Kalamalka […]
Living Water
Mix overnight snow, late morning sun, dry air and mid-afternoon shadow, and, ta da! Bugs Well, OK, energy fields built from the molecular bonds of water molecules at any rate. In so […]
Life is a Form of Water
The universe is consistent. When the solar system formed, light molecules, such as water, spun off to the outer edges, where they formed comets. A billion and a half years later, the […]
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