Pollen in the rain is nice. But without rain, it’s nice, too. You’d think these currents might be created by the wind. Nope, they run with deep flows of water. The wind […]
Green Algae + Yellow Pollen + Rain + Beaver = Beautiful Life
In Praise of Great Basin Giant Rye Grass
It would be beautiful if we taught the children of the Okanagan and the Okanogan that in our country grass doesn’t compost and make food for worms. Actually, this is a story […]
Daughter of Fire
She lives in the sky. Daughter of the earth. Born of the wind. Flowering one. Weaver. Maker of needlepoint. With skeins of light, all atangle. Spirited one. Everchanging. At one with the […]
The Earth Will Be Saved By Leaking Waterpipes
They call it a mud puddle, but, shucks, the frogs were croaking up that way a few weeks back. Wear a long shirt after dusk. The little floating logs are mosquitoes. No wings […]
The Tree People at Night: the Oldest Dance
The priestesses of Dionysus frolicked with satyrs in the night, in processions lit by pine pitch torches. It’s still going on! The old myth was not about people, or, better put, it […]
We Are Doing This Together
The bird that builds the nest builds it in the shape of its body, remembering the nest, and the egg, it comes from. Every moment with the earth is an […]
How To Tell If You’re Living in the Sky
When you’re looking at the sky you’re in, no problem. You can’t see it. Then the problems start. How do you tell this sky … … from this one? Is it that […]
The Resistance Begins
There are no words for this.The sun uses wind …. … and water … … to move sand. You could say it was gravity, or resistance, or wave forms … … but really, […]
Aesthetic Mindfulness
Sympathetic magic is a complex term for a simple phenomena: in pre-Enlightenment culture, the power of objects was believed to derive from similarities between them; knowledge of these similarities, and the ordering […]
Red is the Colour of the Okanagan
Rock gardening is the purest form of gardening in the Okanagan. It’s native to this place, and very Zen. That makes sense for rock that started off in Japan and wandered here […]
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