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… […]
How the West Was Won and Lost
Imagine if Your Country Was A River
Not “all the land around a river” but the river. Not lines on a map drawn to separate armies or to delineate no-fire zones.. A living thing. So were the Wanapum of […]
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 […]
Land Claims in the Okanagan
To say that a land and its people are one, as the first people of my land, the Syilx, say, is to say that the following image is an image of the […]
Okanagan Okanogan 