What’s in a name? Lots. To US American culture, this batholith is called “Beacon Rock.” Kind of a lighthouse, really. When you see it, you know where you are, from a distance. To […]
The Two Faces of Beacon Rock
Heidegger Dreamed of This
Unfortunately, he practiced phenomenological philosophy (PPP! whew!) instead.
Of Racism, Nature and Ethnic Cleansing
Most trees in the Okanogan and the Okanagan are scrub growth that grew up after the land that was the people was ethnically cleansed to create wilderness. The pines below, victims of last […]
The Beauty of Fire
Oxygen is explosive. Welcome to the fire planet, water creature .
Garter Snake Gone Fishing
Note how the yellow stripe of the snake blends it in with the movement of the sun in water. What a wondrous planet.
Beaver Makes a Splash
It is possible to annoy a lake. Sorry, brother.
Living with Technology
When all the trees are gone, technology can fill the gap. Mason Bee Nests in Plastic Here’s a rainbird sprinkler, named after a robin, with a robin, that loves rain, using it […]
Green Algae + Yellow Pollen + Rain + Beaver = Beautiful Life
Pollen in the rain is nice. But without rain, it’s nice, too. You’d think these currents might be created by the wind. Nope, they run with deep flows of water. The wind […]
How to Read the Weather, A Conconully Meditation
Read the water. It knows the sky. The reading apparatus is less the eye than the skin, and the body that receives the skin’s reading, but the eye locates the reading and […]
Abiding Love
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, inventor of the personal identity that, stolen by the romantics and rewired like Frankenstein you are making use of to browse through these words, said this: That’s how it […]
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