Is it the home of my ancestors? Or more inward and mysterious and soaked with light, just metres away? Or both at once? Then again, here in Secwépemc Territory, it is often […]
Disappearing Forests
Sunrise from the Bottom Up
Just because humans are vertical pillars with the seeing bits at the top doesn’t mean the world works from the top down, too. Or from the bottom up, for that matter.
What’s in a Name, Nodding Onion?
There are at least a couple different conceptions of the role of women in landscape in these parts. In English, a language that observes this place, she is the “onion” that lowers […]
There is Fishing and Then Again There is Fishing
Fishing. Lake Owner. Fishing. Camp visitor. FISHING. Cottagers. (Powered, floating docks allow one to have a dock without paying foreshore rights.)
There Goes the Neighbourhood
So, you start out with a pretty nice place, with some folks coming by in the summer for some fishing. Big Bar Lake And then the riff riff moves in. Three years, […]
The Power of Words in Environmental Perception and Change
Look how the light of dawn … … draws itself in at sunrise. And then reveals the story of water ,,, … and air. Are not water, air and light one single […]
How Rain Pushes You Away from Habit
Well, when it falls from the sky, it bends over all the bee-catching people, and covers all other trails. There where rain pools, seed falls. Porcupine grass bends willingly to this pressure. […]
But Who Guards the Eagles Guarding Their Nest?
Ah. A doe. Blessed be.
Plateau Living: Flat Out
On the plateau, where land, sky and water are flat, that is to say spread out from a line, like leaves, floating, one lives in the sky. One floats here. One barely […]
Flat Earth Theory in Practice
At sunrise, there is a mountain. The it gets tricky. The sky sort of, well, falls. Not all at once, but darkly. Some of it even goes up! In the end, the […]
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