To look at the water is to look into the mind. Really. Look. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, it’s Dihydrogen Oxide in a liquid state, with some weeds growing in it, lightly […]
Minding the Earth
It’s About Gravity
The old grass finds the Earth so the new grass can find the sun. The cottonwood catkins find the Earth so that their flowers and seeds can spread out and catch the […]
And We Thought the Chicken and the Egg Were a Puzzle
Is this a footprint of a rock, or one of the sun? Either way, the sun’s heat on this stone has melted snow away in the shape of a globe, which is […]
Life on a Spinning Spherical Earth
There is no up or down, only an orientation to a pool of iron travelling around a star. The “up”, “down” and “middle”, and the “linear” and “spherical” shapes are your mind […]
Social Closeness & Social Distance: the More-Than-Human Story
Let’s talk about the new geological age of the world, the Anthropocene, the “human epoch”, a time of extinctions and biosphere collapse driven by human activity. This doomsday scenario comes at the […]
When You Walk Through the Earth, She is Walking Through Herself
So many sacred spaces are heads. Now that the Earth has insistently re-entered human social lives, it might be best to get to know how to speak with her. Here are some […]
It’s Time to Move Beyond the Divisive Categories of Indigenous and Settler and Live Together on Earth
In the cold of space… … plants that tower above humans and those that hug the ground… … hardly differ. What’s more, in the cold of space, air pushes water to freeze […]
The Life of Water
Under certain conditions, water freezes in curves around the expanding pressure of air, in a shape reminiscent of liquid water giving way to form. At other times, it freezes in the shape […]
Sunearth and Earthsun
The sun sinks into itself at the same time it is expanding outward. Formed in the same cosmic whirlpool, the Earth does the same. The sinking is easy to see, and the […]
The Gifts of Winter
The Thule reed teaches in the winter, not in the spring or summer. At that time, it is not fully opened yet. It is the knot below that it is opening […]
