It is the time of the year when the sun is low on the horizon and must come through a lot of air to get here at 50 degrees North. At the […]
The Role of Poets Today
The New Year Begins in Its Own Sweet Time
About a week ago, really. It’s quite settled in now and has its eye on us. And at the very last, the old year shows us her hidden beauty. And her new […]
A New National Park Reserve for the Okanagan Similkameen?
Here’s my grandfather Bruno Leipe, c. 1963, looking down from above Cawston Creek over the middle Similkameen Valley. This area is part of a proposed National Park Reserve, in partnership with the […]
A View of Eternity
The tree of the cosmos, the ranked tiers of angels among stars and planets, plus apples, a cod, a potato, a pickle, Danish flags, a troll, Krampus, birds of paradise, an Icelandic […]
Merry Christmas!
When one comes to the end of what one can say, consciousness continues a little further. The frame that allows this to happen becomes invisible and merges into the image. This effect […]
The Stars of the Earth: a Christmas Meditation
On Earth, stars are not abstract symbols. They are particular. They are also less than individual. It is the human eye that sees a star, or shall we say “recognizes it”. This […]
Balancing In the Wind Off the Sun
Solstice is here! We reach our depths now. The Old Mystery of the Rowan From them we see the light and follow it, until we come back to ourselves again. Blessings!
Goethe: Poet, Scientist, Admistrator — and our Contemporary?
I’ve mentioned before how the princes of Germany used to study poetry in order to effectively run their countries. 21st Century, Post-Communist Up-date, Dornburg an Der Saale This wasn’t a matter of […]
The Power of Stone
It is good to state the obvious. Stones are hard. They are solid. This give them force. When enough of them get together, it gives them gravity, and a tension between […]
Earth: Wetland of the Solar System
Last night the waterways froze. Today the skies cleared. The sun came out. Yesterday I wrote a piece of history. It was exhausting. Today light says it better. Well, light and water. […]
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