Rain is a transfer of energy. It is a circulation and transformation of gravity. The water is incidental. After all, this is a gravitational planet. The water is just on the surface. […]
Forget the Water for a Moment
The Sparrow Knows
You’re not alone.It’s not just social structures that bring you together. The right environmental structures do so as well.
The Best Thing We Can Do for the Okanagan and Ourselves, Ever
I’m working on a series of 100 practical things we can do in the Okanagan to create a sustainable culture. They are archived in the menu bar above. Let me give you […]
Don’t Be a Settler!
Shrimp skeletons on Okanagan Lake, eh. The little buggers were introduced to the lake over 40 years ago. Pretty sci-fi. Don’t worry. That sand is imported too. Oh, and the water? Aha. […]
Eliminate Black Plastic Now
This is today’s post on creating a sustainable Okanagan. Like the others, it is archived above. Black plastic sheeting serves 4 purposes, but all look like this: It warms the soil for earlier crops. […]
Landscaping for Water Capture
Welcome to the second of a series of posts on creating a sustainable Okanagan. They are archived on the menu bar above. Today: smart water. Read on… Wherever there is a crack, […]
Looking for the Water and Missing the Well
River, run, Rhine, Herons, Assmannshausen am Rhein Rhone, stream, Strom, flow, fleuve, current, rapid, cataract, these are all one word, a Celtic word, for life’s excess, that streams, that rrrrrrrrrrrrrs. It is […]
Land of Beautiful Water Without Name
Lake, right? Big lake, big fun! Pshaw. 150 metres above that lake. Rocks! Not just any rocks, either. Lake rocks, river rocks, and rocks that have fallen off a cliff, all together. […]
Black Widow Leaves Her Nest
Who needs a nest, a web, or any of that fooferall that ties a girl down so… … when the mustard … … ah, the mustard … … does it all for […]
Learning to Talk Like Hare
Between darkness and light …… the great trickster let me come close …… between darkness and light. His message was this:Reading those words is a journey between worlds.
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