The task is to provide young people with support for their energy and visions, and space for them to open them into physical and social expression. All young people have a need […]
The Mysterious Edges of Water
Some waves are wet… Some are dry. Water is a form of collection of this energy, not its substance. It is its pooling. Rivers are its flow — both of the energy and […]
Do You Think Light Moves in Straight Lines?
Not when it combines with water. Or with wind. Then it flows like water. With a spring of light added to it. We begin here in this land. Then we go further. […]
Water for the Kids
I attended a discussion of water tonight in the colonial city of Kelowna. I realize now that “water” is the wrong thing to discuss. “Water” is a use for a form of […]
Water Sprouts
Beurre D’Anjou Pear Tree in Healing Mode In pre-scientific knowledge, these vertical shoots, the result of aggressive and wrong-headed pruning, are known as “water sprouts”. The old knowledge says it well. The […]
Wind Light Water Light Wind
The water is grass in the wind. The grass is water in the wind. Again? The water is the sun in the wind. The grass is the sun in the wind. And without the […]
The Bounty of Water in a Dry Country
This is water. It is called Okanagan Lake. In Icelandic, where indigenous European language survives, it is a vatn, specifically a space of free water. Of that, it is a special form, […]
Poetry and Water
Does anything that touches water bend it? Or does the water bend to receive it? Is water subject to gravity? Or does it make an empty space under a willow tree, for […]
The Opening of Time is Space
Not grass gone to seed, but the seeds that opened into themselves. Blue Bunch Wheatgrasses In Front of an Approaching Storm And are held up in the air by the track of […]
Reality and Illusion in the Okanagan Valley
Here is a slideshow of some images from the web about orchards in my country. Here’s the reality. They’re not orchards. They are thickets. What do people actually want, though? Why, to camp […]
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