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 […]
Cascadia: the Braided Land
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 […]
Choose Carefully
Complexity … Straight line … Both lead to life. One of those isn’t dependent upon oil field profits.
The Land is Deep
From the smallest … … to the largest … … it is one.
Earth and Her Two Suns
Sagebrush. It loves the heat and it looks so grey, right. It loves the cold and it looks so grey, so very grey. But it has a secret. It’s really saturated with […]
Green Fire
Cheatgrass burns off a whole season’s water at once … in early March. By May, this will be a desert, and this fire will be red. This sagebrush-cheatgrass culture takes the place […]
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 […]
The Secrets of Dawn
The blue of the sky divides into darkness and light. Then the sky separates. The light falls, then rises again from the Earth. There are glimpses to the world within the clouds […]
Unlaunching the Okanagan in Kelowna Tonight
Tonight, March 9, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Laurel Packinghouse, at the corner of Cawston and Ellis in Kelowna, I will be helping to unlaunch the Okanagan. Read all about it here. […]
Earth and Story
I know the land. I’ve known it for a long time. I know the stories. I’ve known them for a long time. Stories of Coyote, for example, that howler..Such knowledge is useless […]
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