If you want warmth in the late winter, it’s best to leave the ice of the valley floor, pretty as it is. Sunrise on Okanagan Lake Up high, it’s as warm as […]
Watching the Creation of the Universe
Ideology is an Invasive Weed (Part One)
Sad news. My beautiful lake, with its jewels of melting ice reflecting the sky … is a bit of a sewer, too, when the freezing line gets in close to shore and […]
Cryptozoology is Dead
Take a look. This is N’ha-a-itk. Maybe you’ve heard of this creature from the time when all people and the earth and the creatures were one, through the lens of a little colonial […]
Bringing the Sky Down to Earth
The image below is a habitat for Canadians. I am one of those. We build structures out of trees we allow to grow as weeds on indigenous land, and line them with […]
Discovering Blue
The blue you see here is the sky early in the morning, when the sun is white and comes in nearly horizontally from the east. Here’s a better view… As you can […]
Farming is Not Mining
This is mining. Goose Lake Hills By cattle. What this land needs is a good fire and then a good long rest.
A Green Dictionary of the Earth
Today I’m proud to bring you The Green Earth Dictionary at earthwords.net. It is a collection of English words that come from a time in which earth knowledge was strong among English speakers […]
More Beautiful Ice
Some of the ice I found yesterday is pure art. Here’s a fragment of ice that is acting as a prism, creating blue light out of the early morning. These artworks looked […]
Beauty in a Roadside Puddle
Life is an arrangement of energies and tensions.It helps to slow them down, as the ice in this roadside puddle did overnight. Perhaps it’s not life that’s the story, but boundaries, where […]
The Seventh Dimension
Yesterday, I explored six dimensions of bodies on the grasslands. I’d like to show you the seventh today. I’d like to talk about ethics. Let me introduce you to one of the […]
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