Yesterday I started a meditation on classicism, and how the cultures within Canada have some choices, given German experience with the power, failure and abuse of classical models as a means of […]
Classical culture, eh. The founding myths of a country. Every country needs one. Germany’s experience with finding one (well, several, over time)( has great relevance to Canada today (and given the American […]
You know, it’s beautiful. Patterns. A gravel pit, even. Now, if you walk to the side and look back, what do you see? Other patterns. Rhythms. And a relationship between round […]
Want to read a great book? Here’s a story of an early cattle trail from Oregon to the gold mines of British Columbia, that helped to define this place long before most […]
Here’s my grandfather Bruno Leipe, c. 1963, looking down from above Cawston Creek over the middle Similkameen Valley. This area is part of a proposed National Park Reserve, in partnership with the […]
I’ve mentioned before how the princes of Germany used to study poetry in order to effectively run their countries. 21st Century, Post-Communist Up-date, Dornburg an Der Saale This wasn’t a matter of […]
Alexander von Humboldt, credited with first diagnosing global warming some eight generations ago, as well as the concept of Nature as “all that there is” and the living Earth, Gaia herself … […]
I invite you to have a look at my review for Daniel Marshall’s vital new book of British Columbia history, Claiming the Land. I say it is a vital new book, […]
For a map of the world, past, present and future, there is a stone at the high water line of the Thompson River. If you don’t find it, don’t worry. The […]
From the old Celtic fortress, which became a Roman fortress and Imperial Seat at the great crossing of the Rhine, we look south across the city of Breisach. This city on a […]
