The Texas Revolution went badly for the two Mexican generals who tried to stop it. Their police action, to enforce an anti-slavery law, was a new, utopian experiment for Mexico. Under Spanish […]
13. A War for Freedom
3,000 Posts. The Past and Future of Okanagan Okanogan
This blog started in 2011 as a research tool for writing about the environment of the Intermontane Grasslands of Cascadia, especially in terms of demonstrating the power of the landscape to harvest, […]
Bigfoot Working for Tips in Local Culture
I made a trip to Canada recently. Here’s a local ice cream and coffee stop in Canmore, in the mountains . Note the Bigfoot, another Cascadian away from home, working for tips. […]
Exploring Dry Water
Here’s some strange water. Do you see it there, between the wet clouds and the wet lake? It’s within the force that’s drawing Okanagan Lake into the sky. Here again, on a […]
Race and Apples 9: First Steps to a Better World
The 10+ years of this blog have consistently explored steps to a world beyond racial divisions in this valley, despite its racial history. We have a long way to go, but there […]
Race and Apples 5: Indigenous Cultures Saved by the Border
Today, a piece of good news. The orchards and berry farms of Washington saved many Indigenous families and children from British Columbia. They saved them because their mothers stole away with them, […]
Race and Apples 3: Health, Fruit-Growing and Poison
Apples aren’t as healthy as they used to be. Race has a role in that. A big role, actually. Poor Joseph. Now he’s a hydroelectric dam. Spanning the Columbia right next to […]
Race and Apples 2: The Death of Indigenous Fruit Growing
Here in Cascadia, where most of North America’s apples are produced today, apple growing began with the potential to develop along two three lines: Euroamerican use of privatized land to grow Eurasian […]
The Clouds Pass Overhead and Underfoot
The Similkameen River flows beneath the northern wall of the Cascades. The Similkameen Looking South from Keremeos Creek Mouth It is not just a flow of water. The gravel of its bed […]
The Power of Opening
We are clematis. The rushing waters where the Pacific Ocean lifts to the sky and splashes down on rock sometimes look dry, scoured by the sky more than by water… … and […]
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