Here’s what trees are doing, when left to their own devices… Sproing Actually, this is what water is doing. As water evaporates from leaves folded all winter inside the egg cases of […]
A War Against Trees
The Kind of Planet This Is
What if the sun got hungry, or the earth did? Where would she go for a top up? How about off to the local lilac? Western Tiger Swallowtail + Lilac + Sun […]
Choke Cherries and Pinot Noir
I think it’s time to liberate the things of the world. Choke Cherries, Unite! Yup, as humans we’re used to talking about things with words, but here in the Okanagan Okanogan we […]
The Language of Magic
In Germany, if one of these fellow travellers crosses your path, it’s a witch and you’re done for. In England, you salute them, to avoid bad luck. Here in the land of […]
Flower Maps
What is a flower? Ah, we might as well ask what is a man or a woman or a society. That’s the way with humans. They leave maps, trails, and footsteps. Some […]
The Language of Flowers
So, we were talking about flowers, way back, five hundred years ago in Iceland, when you picked a bouquet of wildflowers for your sweetie and they were instantly civilized, just like that. […]
Embroidering the Land
Ah, Iceland. When the Vikings came, Irish monks were already there. At the end of the world they had a fighting chance to get just a little bit closer to God. They […]
The School of The World
Speaking of Schools on the Land, here’s one that didn’t quite work out… yet. The Icelandic Writer Gunnar Gunnarsson, who was famous from the 1910s through the 1940s for writing of peasant […]
Going to School
Alrighty then, so you want to go to school? Do you want to go here? Students all in Rows and Pruned to Canes and Spurs Because they don’t grow well in this climate, […]
Fusion Reactor Update, Really
Last year, I built myself a nuclear fusion reactor, on the principle that the sun is a really great one but that its reactions are only completed when they strike the earth […]
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