So, you start out with a pretty nice place, with some folks coming by in the summer for some fishing. Big Bar Lake And then the riff riff moves in. Three years, […]
There Goes the Neighbourhood
This is What a Sound Looks Like
ShhhhhhhhhhhhhhOOOOOOrrrrrrre. Shore: the opening of breath, the continuation of an open throat, and the ongoing stream of it, the rrrrr. It is the sound of the Universe striking you. Can you see […]
Recognize Your Fingertip?
Or maybe your eye? Why not take a few moments to praise your ancestors today?
But Who Guards the Eagles Guarding Their Nest?
Ah. A doe. Blessed be.
River in the Sky
Since the glaciers left 10,000 years ago, this esker has been a bare, human, deer, coyote and bear trail between wetlands and brush. Best to call the whole lot of us river […]
All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go: a Day Off the Reservation
Traditional dancing might not help. The slope that male deer have been using for their fall gatherings have been graded, sculpted and turned into a big wide flat parking lot for white […]
The Land Makes the People that Makes the Land
For 9000 years, this skull has guided people on the esker trail between the mountains and the lakes Big Bar Lake Esker These people were not, and are not, British Columbians. They […]
Paintbrush Has a Visitor
It’s great when you put yourself out there and wait and wait and wait… … and then one day the guests come. Thanks for visiting my blog, eh!
The Power of Opening
We are clematis. The rushing waters where the Pacific Ocean lifts to the sky and splashes down on rock sometimes look dry, scoured by the sky more than by water… … and […]
Beyond Settlement: Energy, Cascadia and the Portland Protests
Let’s look at energy by getting going. There is a way forward. You did not make it. No human made it, yet humans have followed it for, perhaps, 10,000 years. Deer made […]
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