What a diminished world, a shadow. Not the Earth, but the world. There is beauty here, but despite the sense of intimacy and closeness that a world gives, it is at a […]
Sacred Water
Whatever We Ask the Earth She Gives
It is important to ask the right question. In the past, we asked for dumb nature, Earth created it. It wasn’t the whole story, but she made it for us. If we […]
Speaking As the Earth: Ore
Yesterday, I wrote about the universal force “Orkan,” a gift to us from our ancestors. Orkan: aka Bowron Lake This Icelandic concept, translated as “energy,” is an ancient Indo-European understanding. Humanly, it […]
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 […]
Earth and Story
I know the land. I’ve known it for a long time. I know the stories. I’ve known them for a long time. Stories of Coyote, for example, that howler..Such knowledge is useless […]
Reading Faces in the Rock
I went out to Kalamalka Lake the other day, as part of my exploration of how to read the land, a bit sideways to dominant cultural norms, but hopefully in a way […]
Saskatoon Petals Falling on Stone
A self portrait.
Okanagan Okanogan 