Shrimp skeletons on Okanagan Lake, eh. The little buggers were introduced to the lake over 40 years ago. Pretty sci-fi. Don’t worry. That sand is imported too. Oh, and the water? Aha. […]
Don’t Be a Settler!
Eliminate Black Plastic Now
This is today’s post on creating a sustainable Okanagan. Like the others, it is archived above. Black plastic sheeting serves 4 purposes, but all look like this: It warms the soil for earlier crops. […]
A Gift of Berries
Changes in language are created by girls as they pass through puberty. Who better to names these berries than the syilx girls who traditionally picked them, between the birds, and the deer? […]
Spirit Mountain and the Legacy of the Dreamers
Back in the Cold War, this was one of the most secure sites in the world, bristling with anti-aircraft defences against a nuclear first strike. Now it’s a dry hill beside an alfalfa field. It […]
Vancouver’s 2016 Colonization of the British Columbia Interior, Illustrated
Note: Since this article was written, Canadian Art has corrected its geography, and now describes its outpost, correctly, as in the Interior. That is welcome. The critique of elite privilege is still […]
The Human Signature
Rock (and marmots)… … rock and water … …the thing that makes them similar is you. Here, the same signature shows up again, in an old gold mine in Conconully. Fascinating, isn’t […]
The Two Faces of Beacon Rock
What’s in a name? Lots. To US American culture, this batholith is called “Beacon Rock.” Kind of a lighthouse, really. When you see it, you know where you are, from a distance. To […]
Heidegger Dreamed of This
Unfortunately, he practiced phenomenological philosophy (PPP! whew!) instead.
Of Racism, Nature and Ethnic Cleansing
Most trees in the Okanogan and the Okanagan are scrub growth that grew up after the land that was the people was ethnically cleansed to create wilderness. The pines below, victims of last […]
Abiding Love
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, inventor of the personal identity that, stolen by the romantics and rewired like Frankenstein you are making use of to browse through these words, said this: That’s how it […]
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