If the rainforest were heavier, it would look like this … Rialto Beach … because its rain would have found the depths of its gravity. The gravity boundary, where the molecular weight […]
The Gravity Forests of Cascadia
Cascadia: the Braided Land
It’s great to look out to sea. It weaves. Then it strikes the land. The land weaves, too. Any way you look at it, it weaves. The beach, too. Here the sun […]
Okanagan Lake is Not a Lake: a Lesson for Global Warming
It is cold 10,000 years old, left by a glacier, which harvested it for 50,000 years. Okanagan Lake, at Okanagan Landing It’s not a lake. It’s an inland fjord. Its bedrock descends over […]
Illusions of Water Create Realities of Drought
Volcanic landscape, right? Wrong. It’s made by water. Neskonlith Falls Below is the old periglacial lake bottom of Glacial Lake Kamloops. That flat land is the bottom of the lake. The train […]
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 […]
Stepping Stones through the Posthuman Swamp
Living in the early 21st Century is sure wild, isn’t it. Welcoming Figure, Aquamarin Hair Salon, Jena, Germany Think of it. You go in this building to get your hair done, which […]
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 […]
At Home in the Earth Community
Like the grass on the Big Bar Esker below, I don’t live in the straight beams of light. I live at the continuity of points of intersection with them, which bend in […]
Living Soil
Here’s some soil: It’s a series of shelters, which capture water, minerals and heat, and amplify the conditions for light and seed germination, in the warm area in the first millimetres above the […]
Gravity Pools
Soil. Not soil. 9 years, nothing growing yet. Soil Not soil. Nothing even germinates here. Soil. You find soil where water pools. (Rocks, too.) It is life — a gravitational effect that […]
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