Let’s revisit an image from a few days back, in which I showed how heat and cold met in a deer trail and a red medicine willow, not to mention a tangle […]
Making Heat and Harvesting Cold: If You Don’t Like the Season, Change it
The Price for Speaking of the Land in English
Lines, flows, and waves crossing points of measurement or data are primary in contemporary understandings of language. The thought that goes from one point to another and makes a point, even wave […]
Come to My Cascadia Show at the Kelowna Library, January 30th at 5:30 pm.
Cascadia: The Once and Future Utopia I’ve been hard at work, putting ten years of explorations of Cascadia into a beautiful presentation. It is an honour to be asked by Okanagan Express […]
Resisting Climate Change Catastrophe One Bird at a Time
Let’s talk about what we can do. Want to control carbon? Plant a tree. Come back in fifty years.That’s what living on the Earth is all about. If you don’t want to […]
The Old Year and the New Year Open As One in the Grass
When we see a head, the head sees us. Together we are a moment of seeing. Perhaps you are used to using the word “rock” for a head like this? Perhaps “boulder”? […]
The Eye’s Travels Through Late Autumn Grass
This is the time of year when the grass only intermittently catches the light. Its ability, however, to combine visual and emotional parts of the observing human mind, is wondrous. These effects […]
What Colour is a Cattail, Anyway?
If you would like to visit the sun, I suggest a late afternoon walk facing west in mid-August. Keep the water at your side and watch where you’re going! But, what colour […]
Becoming the Garden
There’s music, mathematics, and this: Three things that are one, yet are culturally separate. It is left for poets, I suppose, to bring them together in temporary assemblages, but that seems to […]
The Edge of Perception: Welcome to the 21st Century
At the edge of light and perception, the boundaries of what it is to be human reveal themselves. I don’t mean what it is to be human socially and emotionally. I mean, […]
Green and Orange and Orange and Green
Imagine if you were a leaf eating light. You’d eat one set of wavelengths if you lived in the water… The water would transmit flow. … and another on land. The air […]
