It’s time to take a deep breath, together. Everyone Breathe at Once! Bilbo’s Bog. Larch Hills Attempts to discredit the Idle No More movement seem to be ramping up. Here’s a particularly […]
Idle No More Versus the Nationalists
Wisdom Maps
The universe is mapped out in the bark of Ponderosa pines. I spent many afternoons in my childhood trying to read them, but haven’t figured it out yet. It’s a pleasing way […]
Chief Joseph’s Bell
Let us remember in these cold months, that the earth is alive… Young Salmon, Hanford Reach, Columbia River … that multiple generations and species share flows of energy, not space or land […]
Idle No More
The Idle No More movement has my full support. Incredibly enough, the Prime Minister of Canada and his Indian Affairs Minister, both tasked with the care of the Queen’s subjects and her […]
Solstice, and the Wisdom of the Trees
Solstice. The sun is going through a tiny hole into the darkness today and out again tomorrow. It’s not a flower, exactly. It’s just the sun. It has been a beautiful journey […]
Natural Lenses
The human eye is a lens. It is a just one among many adaptations of the energy fields of water molecules. Water lenses abound on this planet. Cat Tail and Water […]
Aboriginal Ways of Science
There is a way of organizing thought that uses human observers to rigorously observe the things of the world, deduces from them patterns of behaviour and organization and draws from those further […]
The Incubator Part 2
On Friday, I introduced the Cube, an experimental art space in Campbell River, as a model for a new type of art mentorship. If you missed it, here’s the discussion. For almost […]
Water, the Inuit and Everyone
The road is long. It is worth travelling. The road is hard. It must be taken. These aren’t proverbs. They are signposts on the road to environmental reconstruction of human social relationships […]
Fun, Food and Respect with Pumpkins
First, the unchosen, fated to rot in the field and to be plowed under in the spring… A Pumpkin That Actually Ripens for Halloween is Six Weeks Too Late Bummer Then, the […]
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