At Rialto Beach, you make a musical instrument. It plays you, and you are the music. You might have left it as a message for the sea, but the sea will take […]
A Cascadian Symphony
Becoming Earth and Sea
Imagine, walking through your mind and finding yourself lying at your feet. There you are, washed over twice daily by the sea and twice by the sky. Western thought would call this […]
Crow Going Out for Dinner in Beautiful Downtown Spences Bridge
Yes, the grove of trees is open for whatever staggers in off the road. The sign says so, and we’re supposed to read the signs, right? Caw, caw, caw. As you can […]
Night of the Dead
For tonight, when the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead is thinner than breath, I offer you my blessing as you speak to your loved ones on the […]
The Key to Shamanic Understanding
Ancestors, frozen… Ancestor pretending to be frozen… Time follows. Logically.
Beyond Peak Oil
Peak crow. …with humanly-erected artworks of driftwood and seaweed. This is what happens when we turn our backs. Now, the view from the other side: Peak Oil Government-Installed Blue Plastic River on […]
Crow in the Snake
How long has this crow been flying at the mouth of the Snake River Canyon? Dunno. Here he is from the other side of the hill. I wonder how […]
The Language of Crows
I feel this language in my bones, but it’s not in words… … or mathematics, as is this one, but what different mathematics they are! (And they’re not about numbers. You have […]
A Short Meditation on Crows
What’s so special about crows?Poufy Fluff Note: this is the male.
Wild Life on the Hanford Reach
Here is a basic guide to life in the Hanford Reach, the last free-flowing (note: not wild, just free flowing) stretch of the American stretch of the Columbia River. First, the security […]
