Private land is not land. To illustrate that, here’s some private property, degraded from a grassland supporting a few hundred people to a weed land for about three cows, for about three […]
The Hamlet Syndrome
The Mystery of Surfaces
Do surfaces have edges? Or do edges have surfaces? Is an edge the limit to a surface? Is a surface the space between two edges, that is given substance because the edges […]
Giving the Children Water: The Bigger Educational Picture
Last night, I wrote about the benefits of environmental transformation that could come through the simple mechanism of attaching a wetland to every school in the Okanagan. It’s worth elaborating on, because […]
Footprint of the Sun
Respect given is respect received. Power given is returned in the same gesture. Columbia River Photography pales next to this.
The Human Signature
Rock (and marmots)… … rock and water … …the thing that makes them similar is you. Here, the same signature shows up again, in an old gold mine in Conconully. Fascinating, isn’t […]
The Mysterious Surface of Water
When the tension of light on the surface of water is randomly broken, the water no longer looks like water. The random patterns are more attractive to the human mind. It’s because […]
Ancestral Memory and Poetry
People write poetry for many reasons. Any that is written is not poetry, though, but an incantation that allows for poetry, a force within the universe, to appear. People cannot be taught […]
The Resistance Begins
There are no words for this.The sun uses wind …. … and water … … to move sand. You could say it was gravity, or resistance, or wave forms … … but really, […]
Earth and Her Two Suns
Sagebrush. It loves the heat and it looks so grey, right. It loves the cold and it looks so grey, so very grey. But it has a secret. It’s really saturated with […]
The Secrets of Dawn
The blue of the sky divides into darkness and light. Then the sky separates. The light falls, then rises again from the Earth. There are glimpses to the world within the clouds […]
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