The sun rises. It draws the night fog off of Okanagan Lake. It’s early and 18 Below Zero. The gulls sleep on. The gulls that seem to have erupted from the lake. […]
Art and Ethics on the Okanagan’s Ancient Water
How the British Columbia Government Looks After the Land and the Water
It doesn’t. If I look from my house towards the western shore of Okanagan Lake, I see this. The land has been burnt, slashed by logging roads, scarred by development and turned into an […]
Do the Rich Have All the Fun?
You tell me. That’s their houses up above, and some beautiful ice drifting in. Below, is Okanagan Lake the next day after the wind did its thing all night long. I have […]
The Real Work is to Take Down the Fences
The task is to provide young people with support for their energy and visions, and space for them to open them into physical and social expression. All young people have a need […]
Water for the Kids
I attended a discussion of water tonight in the colonial city of Kelowna. I realize now that “water” is the wrong thing to discuss. “Water” is a use for a form of […]
The Private Landscapes of the Okanagan Valley
Here’s a healthy stand of bunchgrass, which I showed you a couple days ago. As I mentioned, the Okanagan Valley of the North Eastern Pacific Rim probably looked like this 200 years […]
The People of the Grass
Just look at this Great Basin Giant Wild Rye in the late November sun. It’s growing up the hill from my house, in land set aside for new houses. Actually, it was […]
Holiday Cultures Compared
This is Icelandic holiday culture. A lava field, a cliff, a waterfall and thou in a little summer house. In the Okanagan, holiday culture is about making and spending money, usually involving […]
Learning Elvish
You can measure the hardness of iron by how easily it drives through a softer metal, but you can’t measure its iron-ness. You can measure the nature of elvish landscapes, but not […]
Growing an Old Language New Together
A language is not a string of beads on a wire that you hook around your neck, fiddle with, mumble along with, and presto, you have a smart phone. An indigenous language […]
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