I give thanks that the salmon have returned from Siberia to the Okanagan River, after the longest journey of any salmon in the world… And I grieve that their journey ends abruptly […]
Thanksgiving Salmon
That Old Watery Moon: A Year of Walking and Learning
Moon’s hanging around all day now. Frost in the tomatoes by the lower fence. Potatoes in the cellar. Light everywhere. Earth and Moon with Human Signature Humans are life. They love views […]
Ethics
Water and land are common resources. In terms of Common Law, that means that they belong to the people, all of the people, all of the time. Governments, which come and go […]
A Year of Walking and Learning, Part 4
This is the fourth post in which I unravel a year long walkabout into threads, in preparation for weaving them together into book form, not to mention a presentation next week for […]
A Year of Walking & Learning Part 3
My walkabout in the last year has led through the fields of industry, innovation, and education. What I have found comes from observing the earth. Its raw materials are gravity, rock, the […]
A Year of Walking and Learning, Part 2
Welcome to the second summary of the first year of my explorations in revisioning the goals of literature and the relationship of place and environment in the dry country east of the […]
A Year of Walking and Learning
It has been a year now since I started walking into the hills with my camera as a way to write two books: one about energy and the land, and the other […]
Where is Where?
What is place? The question is absurd. The Okanagan Okanogan … …is the here between these two arrows, more or less. Does ‘place’ belong to settlers? If so, to which settlers? To […]
Stopping a River Dead in Its Tracks
When Jonathan Schell published his anti-nuclear argument, The Fate of the Earth, in 1982, one of his main arguments against nuclear proliferation was that the destruction of life on earth would render all life […]
Wild Life on the Hanford Reach
Here is a basic guide to life in the Hanford Reach, the last free-flowing (note: not wild, just free flowing) stretch of the American stretch of the Columbia River. First, the security […]
Okanagan Okanogan 