Sympathetic magic is a complex term for a simple phenomena: in pre-Enlightenment culture, the power of objects was believed to derive from similarities between them; knowledge of these similarities, and the ordering […]
Aesthetic Mindfulness
Red is the Colour of the Okanagan
Rock gardening is the purest form of gardening in the Okanagan. It’s native to this place, and very Zen. That makes sense for rock that started off in Japan and wandered here […]
Mr. Nobel, You Have a Lot to Answer For
Human spring. Bella Vista Spring. Human spring. Bumblebee Spring. Human Spring. Coyote’s Front Yard Spring. Human Spring. Okanagan Lake Spring. Dynamite Spring. Deer Trail Spring. Grassland spring. Only one is called progress, […]
The Gravity Forests of Cascadia
If the rainforest were heavier, it would look like this … Rialto Beach … because its rain would have found the depths of its gravity. The gravity boundary, where the molecular weight […]
Butterflies and Meadowlarks on a Cold Spring Day
Windy day up on the hill. No bees, but many flowers making themselves all pretty for them. That’s a beautiful flower. When you’re from this place, it’s the only one for you, […]
Cascadia: the Braided Land
It’s great to look out to sea. It weaves. Then it strikes the land. The land weaves, too. Any way you look at it, it weaves. The beach, too. Here the sun […]
Okanagan Lake is Not a Lake: a Lesson for Global Warming
It is cold 10,000 years old, left by a glacier, which harvested it for 50,000 years. Okanagan Lake, at Okanagan Landing It’s not a lake. It’s an inland fjord. Its bedrock descends over […]
Choose Carefully
Complexity … Straight line … Both lead to life. One of those isn’t dependent upon oil field profits.
You Do It By Sweating Hard
Red osier dogwood dissipates heat by colour (the hotter the climate, the deeper the winter colour)…. …and ponderosa pine does it by shape. So, that makes us equal. Good.
The Miracle of Water
The big sage that held water for years against the pull of the sun, and grew thick with time, now holds water and earth in place by stopping the wind in its […]
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