That’s what a Secwepemc man asked me on an evening like this, with this view in front of us. What is the earth doing? He didn’t mean, what are people doing to […]
What Changes are Happening in the Earth?
Bringing the Salmon Home to sx̌ʷəx̌ʷnitkʷ
It is the time of the year when the sun ripens. Whether it is smooth sumac… … sedums storing sunlight during the day to eat it at night … … wild gooseberry […]
What Aspens Can Teach Us
Aspens are powerful, because they are many and one: many trunks from one underground life. These are not individuals. They aren’t even trees. They are individual expressions of wholeness. We do well […]
Mind and Body are One
Things are just what they seem. Like dreams, the act of looking into water has no words. And it can’t be given any, except the simplest ones: blue, log, deep, water, light, wet, […]
Selfless Living
Imagine, you put your heart here for a time. Then you walk here across the grass and leave your mind. Perhaps it will meet a bear later. Then you walk further into the […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 19: Humans, Class and Environment
This is one of a series of posts about how to maintain a local landscape in the face of technological pressure. In this case, both the primary observation (all land and landscape […]
The Cost of Nature
This is tourism. The image below shows the price of tourism. Hey, the water had to come from somewhere, eh. The myth of Canada is that we can have it all, that […]
Becoming the Earth
Scientific culture tells us there is no relationship between this energy … … and this energy … … or this one … … but it does propose a series of material causes and […]
Dawn on Earth
It is a wave breaking on a shore. It is sifted by trees that hold the night within themselves. The sun enters the water, and shines from there. (In the image below, it catches a […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 18: Truth and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Selfhood
Five days ago, I found a psychological diagram attached to a dropped hand-out for the truth and reconciliation process for creating healthy selves in adults who had suffered personal or cultural violence during Canada’s residential […]
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