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 […]
The Okanagan 55,000,000 Years Ago
Learning Elvish
You can measure the hardness of iron by how easily it drives through a softer metal, but you can’t measure its iron-ness. You can measure the nature of elvish landscapes, but not […]
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 […]
The Road Home
Nature is a pretty thing. A bit of death mixed with birth makes it perfect. If you think “The Garden of Eden,” yup, that’s about right. But these are just words, […]
Learning Balance from the Birds
The earth is a plane of balance. After all, it spins. Whatever humans do to the earth changes the balance it achieves. It’s the same with birds. I suspect they did this. […]
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 […]
Trees Know More
Until we are among them, then we know more, too. These ancient celtic forests in the Jura are still home after a couple thousand years. That kind of deep knowledge attests to […]
When Trees are Hills and Hills are Trees
Look how simple these high European landscapes are, how swept by the sea, how chewed by cows, how much the earth has been given over to the sky. Now, compare with the […]
Upside Down Ant Hill
Usually the mound is above the nest. Not a requirement, though!
Fibre Optic Cables Can’t Do This
Yes, they can deliver light, as these grasses do… … but they can’t translate it into photons, which can be stripped away to move the light across time, using the medium of […]
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