The bird that builds the nest builds it in the shape of its body, remembering the nest, and the egg, it comes from. Every moment with the earth is an […]
We Are Doing This Together
The Resistance Begins
There are no words for this.The sun uses wind …. … and water … … to move sand. You could say it was gravity, or resistance, or wave forms … … but really, […]
The Beauty of Evolution
Tangled, twisted, thin and nearly weightless flowers and twigs … … give rise to nearly weightless, flittery birds. It’s not the line of evolution that calls for attention but its balance.
Not Necessarily the Anthropocene
Earth has a mouth …… but it is not a human mouth, although the family resemblance holds. Earth has a throat … … and a urethra … … but they are not […]
Two Okanagan Ways to Make Spring Spring
First, sing! That’s gotta work. House Sparrow If you’re more of a leafy type, you might try this neat trick: as your photosynthesis slows in the fall, you make red pigments instead […]
Creativity and Environment: The Story So Far
THE CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT This post collects the 17 sections of a discussion on creativity, identity and environment which I have posted over the past 5 weeks. It is the first half of […]
The First Principle of Creation
Let me show you something beautiful. Call it bunchgrass if you like. The form of these is a balance between all the forces acting upon them. Their spacing, for example, is a […]
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. […]
Beautiful Balance
The bubbles of air that have been drawn by wave action concentrated by an opening and closing gap on the ice of Okanagan Lake, go no further than the crack. Under the […]
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