If you see something darker, chances are it doesn’t belong. Even that alfalfa in the back is being a little garish, isn’t it!
The Gentle Colours of the Grasslands
Kelowna: The Inhuman City
At a certain point, when physical and social urban space is continually built out of practical considerations, usually the manipulation of people for purposes of efficiency and budgetary accountability, the city becomes […]
The Sparrow Knows
You’re not alone.It’s not just social structures that bring you together. The right environmental structures do so as well.
The Best Thing We Can Do for the Okanagan and Ourselves, Ever
I’m working on a series of 100 practical things we can do in the Okanagan to create a sustainable culture. They are archived in the menu bar above. Let me give you […]
Landscaping for Water Capture
Welcome to the second of a series of posts on creating a sustainable Okanagan. They are archived on the menu bar above. Today: smart water. Read on… Wherever there is a crack, […]
Looking for the Water and Missing the Well
River, run, Rhine, Herons, Assmannshausen am Rhein Rhone, stream, Strom, flow, fleuve, current, rapid, cataract, these are all one word, a Celtic word, for life’s excess, that streams, that rrrrrrrrrrrrrs. It is […]
Land of Beautiful Water Without Name
Lake, right? Big lake, big fun! Pshaw. 150 metres above that lake. Rocks! Not just any rocks, either. Lake rocks, river rocks, and rocks that have fallen off a cliff, all together. […]
Black Widow Leaves Her Nest
Who needs a nest, a web, or any of that fooferall that ties a girl down so… … when the mustard … … ah, the mustard … … does it all for […]
Learning to Talk Like Hare
Between darkness and light …… the great trickster let me come close …… between darkness and light. His message was this:Reading those words is a journey between worlds.
A Gift of Berries
Changes in language are created by girls as they pass through puberty. Who better to names these berries than the syilx girls who traditionally picked them, between the birds, and the deer? […]
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