The colonial period is not over. How do I know? Because the millions of dollars that have been spent on this beach at the head of the West Arm of Okanagan Lake […]
Colonial Okanagan
Where is the Government?
The government is the people’s voice. Sometimes it appears that the government is hiding. Sometimes, one is surprised just where it’s got to. Here is the art that Vernon’s Gallery Vertigo put […]
The Manhattan Project Today
This is the Columbia River as understood by the people who brought us the Atomic Bomb. Control Panel, B Reactor, Hanford Engineering Works, Washington This is the Columbia River as understood by […]
The Future of Remembrance
Autumn is a time of year when mixed maturity and loss exist together in the poignancy that for much of Western history has been the heart of art. Autumn Study: Red Cabbage, […]
The Ethics of Living on the Earth
Canada administrates half of my land as a nation state. The United States administrates the other half. Within Canada, the region called British Columbia administrates half of my land in terms of […]
Of Humans and the Earth
Recently, I gave the Fourth Annual Haig-Brown Memorial Lecture in Environmental Writing, in which I argued for, among other things, the inclusion of other species into personhood and human identity, and demonstrated […]
The Ideal University
Yesterday, I started collecting questions I would ask of an ideal group of scientists and natural philosophers at an ideal university that merged art, science, philosophy and ethics into a unified field […]
The Ethics of Science, Art and Light
Here’s some mullein blooming against a backdrop of grasses gone to seed. The seeds represent four months of light transformed into starches and stored in the seeds of the grass, which show up […]
Putting Questions in Place
Well over two hundred years ago, unified traditions of Western thought were recreated as philosophy (including science and mathematics), art (including literature, music, theatre and dance), and religion (including spirituality of all […]
Writing for the Future: An Ecology of the English Language
I wrote this for my writing blog, Witual, today, and thought that while I compile a post about new vegetables for the Okanagan, you might like to have a look about how […]
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