In an image-driven culture, gardening is symbolic. It fills the social role of display. Like clothing or a tan or a tattoo. The key is to fill the social role while protecting […]
Gardening is Not Real
How Stones Slow Time But Don’t Make it Stop
Just as a stone makes a hole in water when it falls, it makes a hole in grass. The rain and snow and heat it has collected make the grass close to […]
This is Not a War
Grass springs. up. If you come along and eat it, it springs up again. That’s because its regenerative life is under the ground, in rhizomes, sods, roots and seeds. When grass needs […]
A Ring Around The Sun
Light travels at 299 792 458 metres per second, and if you can’t see that, don’t worry: you almost can. When cloud is pushed very high by heat, and thins, and spreads out to […]
Beautiful Slugs. Yes. Beautiful Slugs on the Dry Hill.
Above this dry hill, the hawks roam. On its crest, the Saskatoons are blooming around old wetlands. The water is just over the hill. Lower down, the water comes in rain now, […]
When a Weed is More than a Weed
Dandelions were brought by the earliest settlers to the Pacific Northwest, as food and medicinal plants for gardens. They escaped. Earthworms were also brought by European settlers. Curiously, settler culture now encourages […]
Creatures of the Sky and Creatures of the Wind
Stkcxwiɬp beings are so much sky creatures … stkcxwiɬp, or “Red Willow” in Priest Valley …that they are only holding onto the earth so their roots can breathe the sky within it, […]
The Unofficial Vernon City Dump(s)
While we’re all limiting contact with other humans because contact can kill us, it’s a fine time to consider what other poisonous contact we are having. For example: On What Planet is […]
The Pointlessness of Herbicides, or For the Love of Laziness
Herbicides are drugs for the mind. Here’s what a family down the road has done to give themselves a fix, and to take care of the Earth’s pesky problem of being alive […]
Thinking with Shadows
Shadows are great. You can walk right through them. You can feel them pass over you like a cool hand. They are the space an object blocks from a source of light, […]
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