This is water. It is called Okanagan Lake. In Icelandic, where indigenous European language survives, it is a vatn, specifically a space of free water. Of that, it is a special form, […]
The Bounty of Water in a Dry Country
Poetry and Water
Does anything that touches water bend it? Or does the water bend to receive it? Is water subject to gravity? Or does it make an empty space under a willow tree, for […]
The Private Landscapes of the Okanagan Valley
Here’s a healthy stand of bunchgrass, which I showed you a couple days ago. As I mentioned, the Okanagan Valley of the North Eastern Pacific Rim probably looked like this 200 years […]
The Okanagan’s Missing Water
Here it is. Blue Bunch Wheatgrass This 10-year-old re-seeded slope shows the likely historical condition of the valley under Syilx stewardship. This grass is very much alive. The valley hasn’t looked like […]
Bringing the Water Home
I bring home the name of water. It’s not that it reflects the sky, as the picture below from Hvalfjörður shows, so much as it brings the light from the sky inside […]
Using Gravity Propulsion to Reach the Sun
The grasses below, in a rainwater pool in Grundarfjörður, Ísland, sure do. They are expressions of a force stronger than gravity. It is the force that holds water molecules together, and holds […]
The Okanagan 55,000,000 Years Ago
Before glaciation, the smooth, rounded hills of the Okanagan … … were a series of cinder cones and stratovolcanoes rising above a 100 kilometre slip along (across) a deep fault. Perhaps […]
What is Water?
The human body finds water by its affinity for light. It is a way of finding energy concentrated by gravity’s record left in stone. Once we find it, we approach it, and […]
Meeting Your Earth Self
There are waterfalls. You can chase them. It’s lots of fun. Seljalandsfoss Some are spiritual. You can hike to those ones. Svartifoss You can also set your desire for acquisition aside and […]
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 […]
Okanagan Okanogan 