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A Robin in His Garden
How to Find a Story on the Columbia Plateau
Note the grove of firs in the background here, between the Sinlahekin and Okanogan valleys (well, stories) of Washington. If you walk one way, they are the bristly children a toad is carrying […]
Of Mice and Men
Under the snowdrifts, mice ate between the thorns. On the Columbia River, men try to catch their salmon in the same way. In the second image, however, you can see […]
How the West Was Won and Lost
Oh, here we are in the Hanford Reach, where we find a bit of Canadian Water going home. No, wait, it’s American water. No, wait, it’s everyone’s water! Oh, heck, just look… […]
Why We Need Treaties
I live in a place that illegally occupied land, and signed no treaties for it. Here we are at an old village site on the Commonage Claim above Kalamalka Lake. A parking lot! […]
The Moods of Colour
Look at the colour of this water. Pretty nice stuff, for sure. Look at the colour of this water. Fun stuff, isn’t it. And this water. Why, it’s hardly there! And this…It’s coming to […]
Land Claims in the Okanagan
To say that a land and its people are one, as the first people of my land, the Syilx, say, is to say that the following image is an image of the […]
Save the Earth, Save Yourself (Seeing in the Dark, Part 3)
I promised to write about the environmental and scientific consequences of reading the land as darkness, in an embodied science, rather than as light (the kind of science we have today). I meant […]
E = MC2 and Slavery
E = mc2 is Einstein’s attempt to express the spirit of the universe in numbers. The principle he is getting at looks sort of like this: Snow on Bunchgrass I say “sort of” because […]
Why Poetry Matters
In poetic tradition, the number three is sacred to the Goddess of poetry, as is the colour red. This is not the age of the Earth in which people are comfortable talking about […]
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