Universities are the place in which Western societies educate their youth, create knowledge, and pass on social values. I wonder why that doesn’t happen here: The Salmon River Enters the Snake It […]
Of Universities and Love
How Universities are Causing Global Warming and What to Do About It
I would like to show you the little valley I live in. I think the future depends on what we see here. Vernon Creek Valley, Okanagan Landing. Okanagan Lake is to […]
Okanagan Okanogan: The View From Here
Friends, it’s a happy day. Today, just over 35 months since I began with an image of the grassland (6 hits that day), and a gut feeling that a blog might prove a useful writing […]
Colonialism and the University in the Okanagan
The Canadian stretch of the Okanagan-Okanogan is not just the northern tip of a vast intermountain grassland created by the pressure effects of wet air being desiccated on its rise over the […]
Putting Questions in Place
Well over two hundred years ago, unified traditions of Western thought were recreated as philosophy (including science and mathematics), art (including literature, music, theatre and dance), and religion (including spirituality of all […]
Kjarval and the Children of Iceland
Today I’d like to walk with you through the social ecology of Iceland, by way of the popular artist Kjarval. I think it will go a long way towards exploring what Okanagan […]
Beyond David Suzuki
My friend Claude has reminded me of David Suzuki’s observation: “We need air to live, we need water to live, we need food to live. If we continue to destroy all these […]
The Museum and Gallery of the Earth
Museums: repositories of historically important cultural material. Natural History Museums: catalogues of animals and bones, plants and seeds. Think of both of them as books, that you walk through. They were born in the […]
The Pink Pink Grass of Home
It was such a pleasure spending some quality time in Tamara’s My Botanical Garden on Monday. Thanks, everyone, for welcoming me with such enthusiasm. It’s fine to share stories of the gardens of […]
Rebuilding the University
What do you do when the only university in your country is dependent upon the intellectual ideas of the management class of a different country and trains your country’s young people in […]
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