A year ago, I showed these berries. This year, I tasted them. They taste like this: You can be the wasp, if you like, but it’s really standing in for a bear. […]
Bringing the Salmon Home to sx̌ʷəx̌ʷnitkʷ
It is the time of the year when the sun ripens. Whether it is smooth sumac… … sedums storing sunlight during the day to eat it at night … … wild gooseberry […]
What Aspens Can Teach Us
Aspens are powerful, because they are many and one: many trunks from one underground life. These are not individuals. They aren’t even trees. They are individual expressions of wholeness. We do well […]
Mind and Body are One
Things are just what they seem. Like dreams, the act of looking into water has no words. And it can’t be given any, except the simplest ones: blue, log, deep, water, light, wet, […]
Selfless Living
Imagine, you put your heart here for a time. Then you walk here across the grass and leave your mind. Perhaps it will meet a bear later. Then you walk further into the […]
Water Math, Nerves & You
Water – Gravity Water-Light Water – Gravity – Water + Light The doors these mathematics open are not doors into the universe. They are doors into the non-actualized human self. In the way the […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 19: Humans, Class and Environment
This is one of a series of posts about how to maintain a local landscape in the face of technological pressure. In this case, both the primary observation (all land and landscape […]
The Bears of the Sun
Meet my friend kinnikinnik. She lives in the sun. See how the sun that this boulder catches in the early spring keeps her warm nights, so she can set and ripen her […]
The Cost of Nature
This is tourism. The image below shows the price of tourism. Hey, the water had to come from somewhere, eh. The myth of Canada is that we can have it all, that […]
Appetite, the Commons and Private Land
Henry David Thoreau argued that industrial agriculture and slavery were expressions of the same impulse, which led towards the replacement of common experience and trade with private […]
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