The land I live on was an island that crashed into a continent. It buckled and smashed and was pushed up into the air by the collision. The old seabeds of its […]
What We Need to Talk About, Darling
Of Universities and Love
Universities are the place in which Western societies educate their youth, create knowledge, and pass on social values. I wonder why that doesn’t happen here: The Salmon River Enters the Snake It […]
Dry and Wet Fire
Water moves fire from here to there. It uses heat. Trees do it, too. The sun draws water up through their cells and out through their crowns, drawing water and minerals out […]
The Eye of the Earth
I looked into the eye of the Grand Prismatic Spring, and she looked back. Now I know whose country this is. Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone
Fog Rivers Pour Out of Yellowstone
The great plume draws the seas down out of the skies.
The Beaches of Cascadia
If your country started out as a chain of volcanoes …. …very exotic volcanoes… … in the tropical Pacific, very different volcanoes …. … in five different island chains over 150 million […]
Return to the Snake River at the End of Time
High above the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers, in the southeastern reach of my plateau homeland, the Camas Prairie catches the sky. The camas once bloomed in blue fields here. […]
The Voice of a Great Cascadian River
Chapman’s Bar: a gravel bar in the Fraser River.As the heat breaks, the rain begins in the ancestral homeland of the grassland peoples. Some rocks never dried out. The spring river made […]
Human Young in a Line
Social training in its natural scale. Summer Kids Activity Group
Cascadia’s Flower
In Lewiston, Idaho, the mariposa lilies are beautiful. In Chelan, Washington, they are different altogether. And here in the North Okanagan, they have two shades. First, the lilac, slightly brighter than in […]
