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 […]
Wisdom Maps
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 […]
A Child is Born on the Road
The Road bridges east and west. On the camino, on her way east and west far to the northeast of the pilgrims walking the popular route of the Camino in Spain, 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 […]
Sacred Water
Molten Snow, Okanagan Landing After six hours of sun. Twenty minutes before sundown. Horizontal light.
Living Water
Mix overnight snow, late morning sun, dry air and mid-afternoon shadow, and, ta da! Bugs Well, OK, energy fields built from the molecular bonds of water molecules at any rate. In so […]
A Science of Colour and the Art of Science
I’ve been walking around these last couple days as the earth turns its shoulder away from the sun and the sun comes in lower and lower angles through the grass, sometimes just […]
A World of Colour
If Isaac Newton could remove colour from human experience of the world and silence it as a subject of scientific investigation simply by reducing it to a pattern of mathematics, and … […]
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