Note the grove of firs in the background here, between the Sinlahekin and Okanogan valleys (well, stories) of Washington. If you walk one way, they are the bristly children a toad is carrying […]
How to Find a Story on the Columbia Plateau
How the West Was Won and Lost
Oh, here we are in the Hanford Reach, where we find a bit of Canadian Water going home. No, wait, it’s American water. No, wait, it’s everyone’s water! Oh, heck, just look… […]
Why We Need Treaties
I live in a place that illegally occupied land, and signed no treaties for it. Here we are at an old village site on the Commonage Claim above Kalamalka Lake. A parking lot! […]
Pebbles and Leaves of Light
Pebbles. Leaves (well, ovals with a spine). That’s what a ripple on the surface of water can do. Intriguingly, stones are rounded in ripples of water, and leaves, which eat […]
Life is the Edge
… Here’s an image of water, made with light. Here’s an image of light, made by water: Nice game, huh. The real story is that both are edges, at which light […]
Water Brings Time to Life
…One of the moods of water, I suggested yesterday, is life. Here’s another: Okanagan Lake (Looking West towards Ewings Landing) It still looks full of life. Now here is some of it […]
Climbing The Waterfall
On Friday, I talked about The Moods of Colour. In short, I argued that the different plants, lichens and rock in the image below were all different moods of light, different levels of […]
The Moods of Colour
Look at the colour of this water. Pretty nice stuff, for sure. Look at the colour of this water. Fun stuff, isn’t it. And this water. Why, it’s hardly there! And this…It’s coming to […]
How the Mind and the Earth are One
Thatch and sod grass rising.Bunchgrass rising. Water bunch grassing. Sky bunch grassing. Lichen following the gaps between the bonds of water (which are part of water.) Balsam root lichening (in […]
The Future of Life
Life is the ability of self-replicating organisms being able to react to the environment. Life is also a quality of an environment. When an environment is said to have life, it means it is energized, […]
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