Just, like, you know, find a cliff and get rooted. This is an old railway cut, but a road cut will do fine. For this approach, it’s good to be below a […]
Need Water? Make Some. Need Land? Make Some of That, Too.
Happy New Year!
It is the year to become sagebrush! Let us have an end to fences this time around! Blessings, all you Cascadians out there!
After Christmas, Blessings
When we are finally a people of the land, we will know how to speak and what words to use. Until then, let’s celebrate those who live this life already. The ones […]
59. Jason Lee: The Wrong Man at the Right Time
Sometimes, prophecy comes from a crow, telling the news. Town Crier in a City of Crows. Photo by Harold Rhenisch Sometimes, it’s a man. Even if it isn’t his choice. One was […]
57. The Pacific Northwest War Today
So, let’s add something important to the history of Cascadia, the bioregion known in humanist tradition as The Pacific Northwest. This stuff: The Central Cascadian Coast, with Fires from its Fire Forests […]
53. Pierre’s Hole 5: The War of 1812 in the Far West
The War of 1812, eh. William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister, left, and Napoleon of France carving up the globe. National Portrait Gallery, London “The two greatest Commercial Nations in the […]
Reading the Land
If you see “rock” and “drought” here, please look again. And again. And again. Take your time. Take a lifetime, if you need it. A cultural map at the head of Canim […]
The Day Doesn’t Begin With Light
But the shore does. Big Bar Lake
49. Pierre’s Hole, Part 1
We’re on our way to Pierre’s Hole: Pierre’s Hole, Looking East to the Grand Tetons. Source Back in 1834, at least one man thought it looked like this: The Battle of Pierre’s […]
Let the Life Go On
For 10 days, my quince was the beloved haunt of both a Rufus and a Calliope hummingbird. Rockscaping will not keep the planet alive. Saving water? Funny, the words we use. Nor […]
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