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
Reading the Land for Real
You know how I showed you Sen’klip (aka Coyote) the other day? Yes? No? Yip yip? Yap yap? No matter, he’s such a handsome guy he’s worth having another look-see. What a […]
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 […]
Coyote Made This Country, and He’s Still At It
Thanks, brother.
Hawk Above Coyote Bluff: Becoming the Land Walking
In my country, human consciousness is created when human animals engage in the weaving of the earth together with its spiritual stories. They are often recorded in the land, waiting to be […]
Welcome to the Land of the Big Heads
It’s called the Okanagan Valley now, north of the 1846 border that divided this land into two. South of that line, it’s known as Okanogan County, Washington, USA — hardly a valley. Early […]
What Do You Call a Photograph When It’s Not Made With Light?
Photography: writing with light. A more anglo-saxon suggestion is sun print. There’s more to them than prints on paper. See that? That snow buckwheat is light written or (im)printed on metamorphic bedrock, or, actually, […]
Of Universities and Love
Universities are the place in which Western societies educate their youth, create knowledge, and pass on social values. I wonder why that doesn’t happen here: The Salmon River Enters the Snake It […]
Cascadia: Land of Fire
Cascadia rises out of the seabeds of the continental plains, where a hot, conductive current rises from deep in the earth and shears and curls around the impenetrable ancient rock of the North American […]
The Beaches of Cascadia
If your country started out as a chain of volcanoes …. …very exotic volcanoes… … in the tropical Pacific, very different volcanoes …. … in five different island chains over 150 million […]
