Land and water are land-and-water: one substance. Salish Sea, the Islands and the Coast Mountains Talk about this weave doesn’t have to start with words. Below is a conversation that places human […]
Land is Water and Water is Land
Land and Water are One (Again)
Northern Cascadia has vast amounts of land and water, yet both are too expensive for the people who live there. That’s one way of putting things. Another is that land and water […]
What Does Rural British Columbia Need?
Well, respect, really. Dr. Sarah-Patricia Breen from Selkirk College is clear on that. The respect to be allowed self-determination. The respect to not be seen as a place somehow inferior, or substandard, […]
Which Way is Up
Let this be the year for ending human bias in thinking. We’re not going to be able to let the Earth join us as a person with an attitude like that. Besides, […]
Coming Back to Camp
Darkness, too, is light.
It’s Time to Go Hunting for Frogs
Let’s not be distracted by lesser things. Big Bar Lake
In the Land of the White Earth People
Some land has been sacred since the ice left 10,000 years ago. Calling it a natural phenomena, as BC Parks does with Yellow Pond at Big Bar Lake above, allows people to […]
Knocking the House into Shape Before Winter Comes
Everyone is doing it. Ah, here comes the home handyman now. Why put it off until spring?
17. How to Enslave the Land and the Water if You Are British: a Guide for Colonists
This is the fourth in a series of notes on the practice of transferring human slavery to land slavery. This one is a compound method that includes a fair bit of human […]
Floating on the Glacier
This is a climate change story. The glacier that carved the Marble Mountains out of limestone melted 10,000 years ago. And it is still here.
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