First, sing! That’s gotta work. House Sparrow If you’re more of a leafy type, you might try this neat trick: as your photosynthesis slows in the fall, you make red pigments instead […]
Two Okanagan Ways to Make Spring Spring
Ponderosa and Her Daughters
She uses gravity to walk through time and to lift up what is low and bring it to the sky. This is what time looks like.
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 […]
Walking and the Sixth Sense
As you walk through the Commonage in the North Okanagan Valley, the spirits of the land rise and fall and shift around you in waves, sometimes high in the sky … sometimes […]
Spirit Cliff Above Kalamalka Lake
The time before the time of human life is stone and memory. Lynx and Frog are having a chat that goes on forever. The ponderosa women listen in. Their spirit collects at […]
Of Cashews and Creativity
This is a cashew. Staghorn Sumac This is a cashew. Really. Source. This is a cashew: Poison Ivy There are many other cashews in the world. Mangos … … and pistachios … … for […]
The Spirit of the Okanagan
Imagine looking up at the hill and seeing the spirit that has been there for 12,000 years for the first time. 450,000 people live in the Okanagan/Okanogan Valley. For all of us, […]
Rivers of Light Among the Stars
In my country, the sun looks like this the long winter through. Garry Oaks, Finlayson Point, Vancouver Island In the coastal savannahs and the throat of the Columbia River, which brings the […]
The First Principle of Creation
Let me show you something beautiful. Call it bunchgrass if you like. The form of these is a balance between all the forces acting upon them. Their spacing, for example, is a […]
Indigenous Creativity in the Pacific Northwest
Some cultures are so ancient that they watched the glaciers come and go 10,000 years ago. So it is with the Syilx culture of today’s Colville Confederated Tribes. Once the ice melted […]
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