To move forward, let’s move forward and show our ends. This is your mind on roses. Gaps, Tracks and Crosses of Mind They feed and shelter birds, protect young seedlings from deer, […]
Opening Your Thoughts Wide
Fjall: The Setting Forth from English as a Colonial Language
Well, here it is, Okanagan Lake, a fjord lake over-deepened by a melting glacier and filling a gap some 1600 metres deep. The rock in the background of the image below is […]
Consciousness and Environment: Artificial Intelligence Put in Place
Let’s put this simply: Artificial Intelligence is not a new invention. In the concept of a world that achieves action through balance … Ponderosa Pine male and female flowers ready for spring. […]
Not Just Another Weed Beside the Road
Consider the willow. She is, um, willowy. A withe, we say. A wheel. A welter. A twist, a roll, a waltz and a wave. A voluminous wale, walk, and most of all […]
Consciousness vs. Intelligence
Imagine, if photography were recorded in water and in the nature of water: there for a moment in fluidity… …and then, in the nature of fluidity gone. Consciousness crosses elemental boundaries.
The Artists of Freezing Water
Water is beautiful when it freezes. Over pebbles, far below the freezing point. Splashed with air, right at freezing. Thanks, geese. Holding the sky separate from the sky. Thanks, geese. Bridging an open […]
How Strong is Water?
Stronger than gravity. Stronger than anti-gravity It has edges, but resists them. Even when it doesn’t evaporate, it climbs. We recognize these forms, because we are water. We stare into it. Whoa. […]
When the Snow is the Sky
Ah, so beautiful. Warming and cooling and sun shining through the ice, melting it from below under its icy skin, have made a beautiful thing, neither winter nor spring but both. Pretty […]
Wouldn’t It Be Great to Be a Canada Goose?
There’s not just one way to do it, either! Loads of noisy fun, but when you finally get in synch, so very fine. The cold’s a drag, though. You have to […]
What Saskatoons, Elms and Ashes Can Teach Us About Global Warming
The buds of saskatoons opened on February 1 this year. We can expect the cold to keep them in this expectant state for many weeks yet. Look at the tiny blossoms touching the […]
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