Today, a note about what happened to the promise of a science based on unity rather than dissection. The first part of this discussion is here, if you missed it. Here’s another image […]
What Happened to Colour Theory And What To Do About It
Playing With Colour
The poet Goethe wanted to be forgotten for his poems (in the running for the greatest in the German language) and remembered for what he said about colour. He said a lot […]
Farms For All
Welcome to purslane, a nutritious vegetable used extensively in Middle Eastern cooking, so native to the region that it sprouts up in the cracks of sidewalks and is harvested from there … […]
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 […]
A Matter of Statistics
Statistics is a powerful tool for analyzing data, and for making it more difficult to observe anything other than data. Take a look at the representation of an old way of thinking, […]
Honouring Snow
Ten centimetres of snow fell last night. The wet season has begun. The snow falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, it falls, it evaporates, and so on, etcetera, etcetera, et cet […]
The Spirit of the Land
All the waiting was worth it. OK, sure, these royal gala apple trees are pruned hard at their tips to draw heavily fertilized water up past the weak fruiting wood below and are […]
Writing With the Land
Writing literature in the contemporary world is largely about reflecting on, amplifying and extending the traditions of literature. Mostly, these traditions are interpreted as the stories of individual consciousness. Those are all […]
Earth Bucks: A New Economic Model
Even in dry country, water falls from the sky. Along the way, it imitates gophers. Yes, gophers. Here’s what the gophers are up to: Sorting Rock! It’s the season for moving out […]
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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