Snow, then sun, then snow, then wind, then sun, with both wind and sun coming in at a low angle, but not too much sun, turns the bunchgrass into a series of […]
The Wind and the Grass Taking a Deer for a Walk Among the Dead
Resisting The English Language for the Sake of the Earth
The English language, as it has evolved, is a problem. Here’s an image. The language assures us that these are “clouds”, which culture defines as water vapour, blowing across the sky, which […]
A Gift for the Children
If you would like to teach your children or grandchildren how to continue settler culture, the culture of the Hudson’s Bay Company and its network of fur-trading forts in what it termed […]
The Old Year and the New Year Open As One in the Grass
When we see a head, the head sees us. Together we are a moment of seeing. Perhaps you are used to using the word “rock” for a head like this? Perhaps “boulder”? […]
Krampus’s Night
Before Rome, there was Krampus, the wild man of the mountains, a kind of Sasquatch who lured children away. He was sort of like the Ratcatcher of Hameln. The Romans understood that […]
Taking a Second Look: It is Not Erosion
This is how we change the world. We change the world. Mullein Changing the World on Some Crushed Gravel Leftover from Road-Building This is going on across the slope of a gravel […]
Are We Coming or Going?
That is the question. At any rate, as this view from Dogtown shows, humans prefer artificial bodies over real ones…but use them with disregard. Was human slavery built on any different principles? […]
Found On Road Dead: Farming in the Throwaway Culture
Here’s the view from Dogtown, a métis town being gentrified in the midst of the White Okanagan. The capitalization of investment, such a dominant myth in the colonial power here, Canada, leads […]
Before Racism and Sexism There is Blindness and the CBC
Two important issues are getting airtime on CBC Radio these days. For those of you who don’t know Canada, the CBC (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) represents the federal and royal governments of […]
Dogwoods Reveal Their Ancient Healing Secrets
The great medicinal being, stektektsxwíIhp, aka red osier dogwood or red willow (be careful with that; more than one plant bears that name), reveals her anti-inflammatory secrets when her leaves stop making […]
Okanagan Okanogan 