The mountain is not passive. Only finished products are passive. Only “naming” to make an action into a noun creates objects. That is the point of naming. The mountain, however, is an […]
Getting Our Land Back 10: The Deep Poetic Ecology of Cascadia
Growing Up in Cascadia
I live in Cascadia. Looking into the Core of the Earth, Norris Geysir Basin, Yellowstone, Cascadia (Home Sweet Home) Here’s what one of Canada’s universities in our space has to say about […]
The World Beyond
Here’s the park. Why it is called a “park” is because it belongs to the Queen in the name of the people. That’s a little arrogant. This last tiny remnant of a […]
Beauty and the Beast Au Naturale
Trees viewed through air. Trees viewed through water. It is your eye, and your mind, that sees both, not the world. Of course, we have binary vision, which means we see […]
A Little Stroll Through Pacific Northwest History
Here we are in Dry Falls. A few things to note. First, the road. That must be the Cariboo Trail of 1858, not the main one that ran up Moses Coulee to […]
Wild Parsley and Brittle Prickly Pear: an Enduring Relationship
A syilx friend has pointed out that every plant grows in relationship with another, and these relationships lead to antidotes and other companion uses. So, rock, brittle prickly pear, and desert parsley […]
Guarding the Nest at the End of the Age of Recreation
The first line of defence. Pops With the Klaxon Ready The second line of defence. The fortress. The final line of defence. Keep low and use your natural habitat to advantage. ~ […]
Is It An Optical Illusion?
Is this image a record of a trick of light? Or is this image made by looking at a wetland the way things are? Do we see through darkness to the earth […]
Green and Orange and Orange and Green
Imagine if you were a leaf eating light. You’d eat one set of wavelengths if you lived in the water… The water would transmit flow. … and another on land. The air […]
Never Too Hot to Touch
You wouldn’t want to put your hand into the sun, and yet, when it is concentrated, and brought inside a living chain of hydrogen and carbon… …when it is right there before […]
