I’d like to talk ethics today, with East Germany in view, though, because it was a society that allowed an alternate vision, not only of what might have been possible (good and bad), but into […]
The King’s Way: Science, Multiplicity and Nature as an Artwork
I’ve been trying to say something useful about Goethe this week, which is a tough thing to do with a writer who was used for nationalist purposes ever since his youth in […]
A New School in the Okanagan Spreads Its Wings
Living Wild in the Stone Age Friday, January 10, 2014, Vernon Public Library, 4:30 p.m. (I’ll let you know how it goes.) “Spend a month in the wilderness, with only buckskin clothing, handmade […]
Urban Okanagan
I recently spent two summers in East Germany. I fell in love with the place, partly because of the very public nature of its politics, and how it is conducted through nightly […]

