I have mentioned the need for a new Enlightenment, one which includes the earth. The following images show, I think, just where it might begin. This is a variation on the art of […]
Painting with Ice
Yesterday I talked about a language of ice. I’m still following that idea, of writing from the local materials of a place and going through the doorways opened by that kind of […]
The Language of Ice
Here’s something I’ve learned in Iceland: use whatever you have at hand. Yes, I knew that already, because that’s how the Germans invented science along the old pilgrimage road between Paris and […]
Rebirth … through Trees
Every Western church has a window much like this … Christ Risen Reykholt Church Altar, Iceland Not many churches have this for a view while you’re sitting in the pews … Church […]
Telling Stories through Photography
When I started these notes, I wanted to record explorations of a near-desert caught in the winds of the mountains far inland from the sea. The salmon, I thought, were the ones […]
Finding the Earth’s Story, Finding my Own
I’m off. Or is it going home? At any rate, it involves Iceland. I’ll continue these meditations on place from there for six weeks. I fully expect to get to their heart. There […]
Light Does Not Move in Straight Lines
Two hundred years ago, the poet and scientist Goethe observed that if light is measured with Newton’s prisms and measurement devices what will be found will match the method of measurement. After […]
The Line Comes Before the Word
Today, simplicity: Vernon Creek, 1/125 of a Second Letting the Earth speak for herself. Imagine if you slowed the mind down yet more!
Walk With the Earth, Then Fly
I made a comment yesterday, that it would be a moment of great disrespect to write a poem about a moment of beauty in the spring. Back in the 1980s, we were […]
Walking Among the Children of the Sun
A new year of growth has started, not on the deep bottom lands, but high above, on rock. Here we on a rocky outcropping about 100 metres above Okanagan Lake. The Sun […]
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