History is the study of what has happened in the past. But what if the Big Sage below, weighted with snow, were history instead? There comes a point where the inner heat […]
What if History Were Not Over? I Mean, for the Kids’ Sake
Red Power
Red is traditionally the colour of life and power. It is associated with blood. For this, a belief in the power of redness is scoffed at in scientific circles, in which it […]
Cross Dressing Snow Man Meets the Earth
Here’s a bit of spontaneous sculpture along the Gray Canal, leftover from some kind of New Year’s Celebration. Note the discarded noise maker. Here’s another bit of spontaneous sculpture, on the […]
The World Tree Takes Two Forms on Solstice Night
Darkness is not to be feared. It can give us strength. In Akureyri, the Troll’s Cat honours the passing of the world through darkness into light as much as the Christmas tree […]
The Gifts of Winter
The Thule reed teaches in the winter, not in the spring or summer. At that time, it is not fully opened yet. It is the knot below that it is opening […]
Sheltering on the Open Range
Well, you can shelter in the strength of the Earth and shelter as well in how you read that as the balance that is often called beauty. Or you can shelter from it […]
Are We Coming or Going?
That is the question. At any rate, as this view from Dogtown shows, humans prefer artificial bodies over real ones…but use them with disregard. Was human slavery built on any different principles? […]
Found On Road Dead: Farming in the Throwaway Culture
Here’s the view from Dogtown, a métis town being gentrified in the midst of the White Okanagan. The capitalization of investment, such a dominant myth in the colonial power here, Canada, leads […]
Terracide
If you lock all your people into cars, roads, schools, restaurants, stores and jobs, you can get away with murder. What I mean is, you can have all your people working together […]
Garden Looking Good (Just in Time)!
Three months ago, I was digging a deep hole for the greenhouse foundation. Now look at it! We’re getting there, eh! Garden boxes built, garden terrace built, greenhouse ramp and floor built, […]
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