I love this land. I guess you know that. I am this land. Other writers might talk about identity and ego and alter ego and personality, but I just want to take you […]
Where the Heart is Home: A Celebration
Just Spinning Around Here in Space
Good to remember the force that makes the hills. Moon Over the Yakima River Canyon, Umtanum Creek
Beautify The World for 2,000 People For $20
Orchard with flax in the ‘hood. Orchard without flax (3 kilometres down the road.) Currently, flax fibre goes for $10 for every 50 grams. Plus, once you’ve made a set of wedding […]
A Red Bee in the Okanagan
How cool is that! Or, rather, how hot. A first for me. It appeared to be looking for a nesting site.
Don’t Mess With the Earth, I Say
Some people look at the flax, that used to keep people clothed in the cold, and think, “My, that makes life worth living.” And other people just whack it down. […]
Time Travel Gone Bad
Petrochemical agriculture is a program that uses statistical risk assessment to balance the need of farmers to extract a capital profit out of farming commensurate with the profit to be extracted from […]
The Problem With Petrochemical Agriculture
It’s too easy to do it wrong. View of Spallumcheen Farm from Swan Lake A 10,000-year-old lakebed gets thrown up into the wind while boaters get ready to be pulled around […]
Seeing is Breathing
To see the spirit of a tree, look in the water. There is a movement.That movement is the tree. It is a form of breathing. It is there the tree reveals […]
Cascadia: Where the Sea Breaks on the Land
Cascadia is the place where water, air and land meet …. … in waves …. … and boundaries. The stones here … … are also part of the mixing of water and […]
Cold is Contagious
Because Canada is a country at the north of the world, it reads things in a northern kind of way. This, for instance, is seen as a hot place, not as 10,000 […]
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