It’s great to look out to sea. It weaves. Then it strikes the land. The land weaves, too. Any way you look at it, it weaves. The beach, too. Here the sun […]
Cascadia: the Braided Land
Okanagan Lake is Not a Lake: a Lesson for Global Warming
It is cold 10,000 years old, left by a glacier, which harvested it for 50,000 years. Okanagan Lake, at Okanagan Landing It’s not a lake. It’s an inland fjord. Its bedrock descends over […]
Love the One You’re With
Love your rock. Love your dad. Love your kid. Love your sweetie. Loving the sun together, that’s the yellow-bellied marmot way.
Choose Carefully
Complexity … Straight line … Both lead to life. One of those isn’t dependent upon oil field profits.
Spiritual Life and Wealth in the Okanagan
Do the wealthy build monuments to their power on spiritual sites because they recognize them or because they don’t? Temples were once built by the wealthy for the gods. Now they are […]
The Beauty of Evolution
Tangled, twisted, thin and nearly weightless flowers and twigs … … give rise to nearly weightless, flittery birds. It’s not the line of evolution that calls for attention but its balance.
You Do It By Sweating Hard
Red osier dogwood dissipates heat by colour (the hotter the climate, the deeper the winter colour)…. …and ponderosa pine does it by shape. So, that makes us equal. Good.
The Miracle of Water
The big sage that held water for years against the pull of the sun, and grew thick with time, now holds water and earth in place by stopping the wind in its […]
The Key to Shamanic Understanding
Ancestors, frozen… Ancestor pretending to be frozen… Time follows. Logically.
The Land is Deep
From the smallest … … to the largest … … it is one.
Okanagan Okanogan 