Yesterday, I mentioned that Naomi Klein’s critique of this past season of storms and fires missed a Cascadian perspective. Here’s one, from Shuswap Lake. Let me decode that. When one is of […]
Blend In! (Not.)
Drought makes it easier for birds. They need the help. Sucks for stink bugs and lilacs-planted-in-the-wrong-place, though.
Global Warming is Half the Story
Naomi Klein has written a strong, compassionate article about this summer’s fires and hurricanes, and has illustrated it with stunning and heartbreaking photographs. https://theintercept.com/2017/09/09/in-a-summer-of-wildfires-and-hurricanes-my-son-asks-why-is-everything-going-wrong/ Her title suggests that her purpose may have […]
String Theory and Black Holes in the Summer of Smoke
There is a way of increasing the effects of gravity. Here is a picture of the string theory of contemporary physics, out of the laboratory and in the real world. Call it […]
Buzzards in the Smoke of Sexqéltkemc Territory
The most beautiful fliers prosper in the dying land. As we approach zero, we are born from it again.
Construction Gone Bad in Vernon
Men have been digging at the hill to make a level place to build houses, and have put up a wall of blasted rock to hold the hill back. Note the deer. […]
The Redfish Come Home
Things are pretty great on Redfish Creek above the over-deepened trough of Kootenay Lake these days. The kokanee have come home. The work of mixing the sun with the earth and the […]
The Last Hurrah
The world is burning this summer, but, darn it, some people are still going to have fun. Smoke be damned. It can hardly be about romance. Grim determination, perhaps. I dunno. I […]
Pick Your Camoflauge!
Blend in. Or look like you blew in on the wind. And hang on. That’s the way.
Total Eclipse of the Sun … Whenever You Want!
When it gets too hot and bright out … … there is always the dark. Spider runs the solar shuttle best.
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