The greatest fear in 21st Century civilization is the loss of self. It must be controlled by extravagant ritual. Boo Some of its ways are the binary relationships of delineating self from […]
A Halloween Reminding
The Sun is Not a Focussing Aparatus
Every moment of the sun is as focus as any other moment. This is hard for a human eye. It’s used to burrowing through light, to throw it into dimensions, which it […]
Power Generation from Leaves and Trees
The leaf that lies on the ground catches the ground frost at night. Unlike the ground around it, it remains chill when the sun comes up, and retains its frost. Unlike the […]
Are Pine Trees Binary Engines?
Computers are binary calculation machines, which have reduced mathematics to a series of on-off series. Is it the same with ponderosa pines? Look at the light, filling these needles. Look at how […]
Porcupine’s Favourite Colour
When medicine willow (the apricot-coloured one below) grows in deep shade, it collects a deep, reductive power. It is not the leaves you harvest but the inner bark, but it forms in […]
Truth and Reconciliation on the Canadian Farm
Because this is a country built around a mix of public and private property, and built especially upon long-distance communication from across the continent and the oceans, the dominance of transportation ensures […]
Of Water and Memory
One could call the stones in the shore of Big Bar Lake below “wet.” They have been taken into the power of “wetting”, or wætur. They have, in other words, been wetted. […]
Happy Thanksgiving
In 1981, I discovered an apple, growing in a ditch on Benvoulin Road in Kelowna. I got some grafting wood before the tree was cut down in the spring. She is growing […]
A Review of Daniel Marshall’s Claiming the Land
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, […]
Spider’s Two Dimensional World (and her one dimensional world as well)
Fun stuff! You take the three-dimensional world that flies buzz around in all willy nilly … … and you remove one dimension. And then you get to be the third dimension yourself. […]
Okanagan Okanogan 