1. Pines, Sun and Water Look how this ponderosa pine’s needles are designed to radiate heat. This helps for cooling in the summer. In the winter, the design helps the tree to collect […]
Two Ways to Turn Winter Into Summer
When Horses Walk the Earth (A Winter Prayer)
Let us praise giant rye grass…. … that grows as tall as a horse … … and let us praise its dark seed … … and the fog that blows […]
Air: The Primary Human Habitat
Our earth is not just a glob of rocks … spinning around the sun, and not just vast seas of water sloshing around at the pull of the moon … … but is also […]
The Oriole in the Coal Mine
Trees are boundaries. They are creatures of the air, but are anchored to the soil. Most birds are like that, too. Many put their nests up in the sky, supported by trees. They even […]
The Exquisite Beauty of Gravity
There is a tension …. … between what rises … …and what finds the core. Sometime’s it’s weightless. Sometimes it rises. Sometimes it falls. Sometimes it balances. But […]
Choosing to Be Human
“Gravity” is commonly understood as the force, devolved from subatomic bonds extended during the Big Bang, that brings things down. This vineyard hill above my house, for instance. The same force brings […]
E = MC2 and Slavery
E = mc2 is Einstein’s attempt to express the spirit of the universe in numbers. The principle he is getting at looks sort of like this: Snow on Bunchgrass I say “sort of” because […]
Tracking the Ring-Necked Pheasant into Deep Time
Is life a story of gas pressures in liquid during changing temperature? Is it a story of light following fissures in substance, and so sorting itself out into different qualities? Is it […]
Why Poetry Matters
In poetic tradition, the number three is sacred to the Goddess of poetry, as is the colour red. This is not the age of the Earth in which people are comfortable talking about […]
The Many Forms of Water
Drops of water: Winter Haws A drop of time: Winter Bud Drops of seed… Blue-Bunched Wheatgrass Drops of light … Ponderosa Pine Drops of water… Winter Hips Leaf drop… Cottonwood Drops […]
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