Looks just like a pile of gravel, eh. Na, see those coyote tracks on the left? These ones? They come from several directions. Even from, sort of, this one (on the […]
Coyotes Dancing, You Come Too
Creativity, Creation and the State of the Earth and Our Cities
Creativity is a word, which is used in attempts to express innovative, artful and thoughtfuldevelopment and change. The one thing that it does not express is creation. This is creation: Note that in contemporary speech, […]
Beautiful Balance
The bubbles of air that have been drawn by wave action concentrated by an opening and closing gap on the ice of Okanagan Lake, go no further than the crack. Under the […]
Technologies of the Self
This is an experiment. I’ve taken an old post from deep in the archives of Okanagan Okanogan … … and will attempt to polish it up to support some observations on identity […]
Space: the Human Habitat
Snow looks white and cold. It looks like a cold carpet over the earth. That’s the way a mammal thinks. A mammal has built itself around its own stove. To the creatures […]
The Spiritual and Technological Roots of Individualism in the Environment, part 2
The American psychologist Abraham Maslow had some thoughts about creativity: It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is […]
The Spiritual and Technological Roots of Individualism in the Environment, part 1
Boundaries give focus. They’re also wildly frustrating. Grey Canal Trail, Bella Vista Hills A general human glance does not have boundaries like that. Neither, though, is a human glance — or human […]
The Glorious Winter Sun
Today, joy. Way up high, the sun. High up above us, in the shallows of the sea of glorious winter fog Okanagan Lake gives off for the entire length of its 135 kilometre fresh […]
Winter Sun in the Okanagan
This is when we who live here are simultaneously closest to the earth and living among the stars. Summer can’t beat this!
Who Are We, Where Have We Come From, Where Are We Going To?
This is an image of Sybille von Cleves as a young woman in 1526, painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder. source It is not the woman who is named Sybille von Cleves. […]
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