When warmer water strikes in colder air, it brings objects to life, by bringing it across a boundary of energy into a new state. It does so by moving the boundary. Rain […]
The Life of Okanagan Lake: a Meditation on the Year Before Us
The World Tree Takes Two Forms on Solstice Night
Darkness is not to be feared. It can give us strength. In Akureyri, the Troll’s Cat honours the passing of the world through darkness into light as much as the Christmas tree […]
Artificial Intelligence: Stopping the Run
Here is a post-glacial stone concentrating the landscape into will, in the way a will deor nes, a “wild deer cape” was a royal hunting preserve, designed to transfer Earth’s energy into […]
Indian Reserves and Language
Let’s be humble for a moment. There is a global culture today, and it is not humble. It looks out through human actors, apprehends the image below through their complex biological organs […]
Global Warming, Indigenous Culture and Industrial Nature
Please, forget carbon dioxide for just a minute, if you can. It’s a symptom, not a cause. There is worse. Nature in Canada This mule deer doe is trapped by fences on […]
Understanding Nature
This field of swiss grain above Lake Constance is a good example of the kind of conversations humans have with the earth. This represents technology brought from Asia to Europe and used […]
When Celts Become Christians
Beauty happens. Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
Grapes are So Celtic
There are many ways to grow after visiting the land of the dead. Grapes do it by pushing out shoots from the eyes we call “buds.” Each shoot is a vision. Wood […]
Quince Doesn’t Mind the Cold
Perhaps this is why she moved north long before peach and apricot, apple and pear, or maybe the monks who carried her along were big on thorns, blood and blooms. Symbolism can […]
Bioregional Literature, Out of the Box: a dissection of ecocritical culture
Here’s a beautiful ecocritical conference. Wouldn’t it be great to go? Critical Approaches to Bioregional Literature of the Great Lakes Basin (June 20-24 2017, Detroit) http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu/conference.html It’s about rust. […]
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