I live in Oregon Territory. My part is owned by the Government of Canada now, but it started here, in the musings of an American in his last hours. His name was […]
Growing a Future from a Living Past
I want to show you something about money. And something else about life. (Hint: choose life.) Here is a future apple orchard. Nursery Done on the “Cheap” In this case, cheap is […]
A Lesson from Iceland
When the vikings came to Iceland in the 10th Century, the place was rich with birch, willow and mountain ash forests. Eventually they burnt them all — to stay warm, to cook […]
Writing and Farming Are One
Some thoughts on “writing” today, including my other love, “farming”, and another one, “art.” A smorgasbord, really! First a note: There are few writers left in the world (but many keyboarders), I […]
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 […]
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 […]
Time Travellers, Dancers, and Evolution
Instead of a science that looked at precise instants in time, constructed out of exact measurements of the kind that gave civilization (so to speak) photography, the poet Goethe proposed a science […]
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 […]
Dandelions, Awake!
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce you to the neighbourhood quail doing their tra la la back in the sweet time of flowers and weeds. At night, this stretch belongs to the […]
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 […]
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