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. […]
Of Water and Memory
The Flowing Ones: Withe, Rush and Reed
As we learn again to speak as beings that draw our being from the earth, it’s good to go out in the afternoon light and see what catches us. A feral squiggly […]
The Power of Dawn
In the morning, we are blinded by fog, which is to say we are blended by it. It’s not that we can’t see out, which is a modern, directional way of thinking, […]
First Things
Water mixes with light. And then… … water mixes with light. After that… … Earth mixes in with water and light. And when that’s done, they separate again. In many […]
Home is Not a Place
Summer is over. The seductive music of elsewhere is looking like a confused, lost art form on the streets of Penticton. While on the streets of Okanagan Falls, the retirement homes of […]
Beautiful Rain
Imagine constructing a “human” “social” “environment” that includes neither stars nor rain. Imagine calling it a “human” “social” “environment.” These two images are part of a language our bodies still know how […]
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 […]
The Doubled Wisdom of the Earth
It’s not just about the hunt. It is not just above forceful intelligence. A friend argues that geological energies thrust and push, clash against each other, and create room, shape and structure. […]
Hide in Plain Sight!
Want to avoid being seen? Be a knot hole. Hey, it beats hanging out under the bark. Downy Woodpecker can hear you under there. Be bold! Hide in plain sight. Pretend to […]
Going Timeless
When the first snow comes, some travellers, such as these sandhill cranes, have already flown before it for 3000 kilometres, for a week. The first snow has this extension in time. When […]
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