A year ago, I showed these berries. This year, I tasted them. They taste like this: You can be the wasp, if you like, but it’s really standing in for a bear. […]
What Changes are Happening in the Earth?
That’s what a Secwepemc man asked me on an evening like this, with this view in front of us. What is the earth doing? He didn’t mean, what are people doing to […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 19: Humans, Class and Environment
This is one of a series of posts about how to maintain a local landscape in the face of technological pressure. In this case, both the primary observation (all land and landscape […]
As the Pool of Agribusiness Giants Shrinks, Will Innovation Follow?
Here is an example of the kind of technological intervention in earth-human relationships which one contemporary urban- and intellectually-based elite sees as the solution for a shrinking food supply and an increasing […]
The Cost of Nature
This is tourism. The image below shows the price of tourism. Hey, the water had to come from somewhere, eh. The myth of Canada is that we can have it all, that […]
You are the Wind
Wind is the air, moving, at a speed greater than a breeze. It is also energy. It is a habitat. Humans and cottonwood trees both live in it. It is not something to […]
Becoming the Earth
Scientific culture tells us there is no relationship between this energy … … and this energy … … or this one … … but it does propose a series of material causes and […]
Bear Going Nowhere
Two years ago, a mama bear taught her cub how to find grubs at Big Bar Lake, by knocking the cap off this old tree carcass. This year, as a two-year-old kicked […]
The Thing About Abstract Art
It isn’t abstract. Concrete Forms of Water, Mass, Gravity and Light Nice work by the raindrops, eh! “Abstraction” is just a cultural term, signifying a preference to live within a certain group of […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 18: Truth and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Selfhood
Five days ago, I found a psychological diagram attached to a dropped hand-out for the truth and reconciliation process for creating healthy selves in adults who had suffered personal or cultural violence during Canada’s residential […]
Okanagan Okanogan 