I am trying to learn how to read. So, I’m standing in the middle of the road hoping no car will come. I’m doing this because it’s time for the last birds […]
The Poetry and Science of Flight
Meditation on Light
The human mind reads patterns. Perhaps it does so because it is formed from an earth rich with patterns. Perhaps the moment of apprehension of pattern is called meaning. Perhaps that […]
This Beautiful World (And how not to lose it)
Look what this lavender bush has done. She has sieved leaves out of the wind. Or is it … … she has stopped them from blowing away? Everywhere the earth is trying […]
Farming and Art: Ancient Sisters
I was walking along the old water canal the other day, and then up the ravine and along the coyote track across the top of the vineyard, and I saw this… Industrial […]
The Future of Remembrance
Autumn is a time of year when mixed maturity and loss exist together in the poignancy that for much of Western history has been the heart of art. Autumn Study: Red Cabbage, […]
Seeing in the Fourth Dimension
Because my camera can’t see well, it sees this when I look up … Staghorn Sumac Against the Sky But because it flattens out light and dimension, it reveals pattern that my […]
The Use of Poetry
Folktale is a funny kind of memory. It remembers what bodies remember, but not what the mind makes of that. That is a different tradition. These things have consequences, though. If writing […]
Holding Light in Your Hand
You can hold the sun in your hand. Really. Just pick a leaf in the fall. Once photosynthesis has shut down, the photons of the sun stay there for a short time, […]
The Beauty of Fog
The Okanagan Valley markets summer. Summer is an ancient European idea that has a lot of currency in Canada, where there’s a lot of winter, and very little in Guatemala, where there’s […]
Celebrating the Apricot
Today, a moment of joy. Remember the apricots of a year ago? Tilton Apricots, Lower Keremeos, Similkameen Valley The great preserving cot of the West. And remember the ones of this August, […]
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