I walked up the hill across the valley today, to get into the fog. No, this isn’t today. This is the spring of 2012. But that’s part of the hill in the […]
There Is No “Post-” in Post-Colonialism
Lost Knowledge: Apples and Culture
I weep. At the beginning of the 1980s, I grafted the first Fuji apples in this country, as part of an attempt to free us from the trade rules of the Canadian […]
Quantum Mathematics Without Numbers on Okanagan Lake
Gulls know a mathematics far beyond of Grade School. It’s simple. You cleave a line in two. That’s quantum mechanics. By moving, you maintain it as it spreads. Water helps. But lines […]
Black Holes and White Holes
You know how when a star collapses it makes a black hole? You can’t see it, of course, because even the light you might see it by falls into its gravity. But […]
The Cunning Mouse Hunting Heron of Okanagan Landing
Look, maybe there aren’t that many wetlands left, because they are full of “airports sport fields houses roads road fill single wide trailers left over sidewalks trucked in from across town golf […]
The Lesson of the Snow
The days are short. By 3 pm there’s little light left. If I had any sense, I’d leave the camera at home. Fortunately, I have none. Look what I learned today at […]
A New School in the Okanagan Spreads Its Wings
Living Wild in the Stone Age Friday, January 10, 2014, Vernon Public Library, 4:30 p.m. (I’ll let you know how it goes.) “Spend a month in the wilderness, with only buckskin clothing, handmade […]
Learning from Birds
Gulls face the waves. Ducks face humans. Gulls blend in. Ducks don’t. When gulls get in a line, it is so that they can each face the water. If they’re not facing […]
Think Big
Aren’t cat tails cool! They fold over themselves, layer upon layer. When you see this, you could invent a tradition of basket- and mat-making, and could build houses out of rushes and […]
Seeing in the Dark
The poet Goethe argued that colour is formed by the boundaries between light and darkness. He argued that it was possible to see in the dark — that colour (or light) were […]
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