In the grasslands of the intermountain west, a seed doesn’t need to be planted in the soil. It falls into a crack in the living skin of the earth, which grows over […]
Birth and Life in the Grasslands
Giving Up Your Self for the World and Finding Freedom to Move
Imagine, if you just loved white things, and out of all the world you felt, well, you know, only at home there. Especially creamy white things. Especially yarrow. So it can […]
Don’t Mess With the Earth, I Say
Some people look at the flax, that used to keep people clothed in the cold, and think, “My, that makes life worth living.” And other people just whack it down. […]
Living on a Sphere
If the earth were flat, she would be half as much fun. The grassy slope would always have the same orientation to the sun, for one thing. With a tilted earth, sometimes […]
For the Love of Water
Light is pretty great stuff. Add it to grass and it’s even greater. Water helps. A lot. Some forms of life are the embodiment of the energy of the intersection of water […]
The Future of the Earth
I love the world that scientific method has uncovered, but I also know that there is a way of mapping the world that does not include scientific descriptions of the flow of […]
The Sacred Rowan
When trees are sacred, the earth doesn’t turn into a desert. And birds come, too, out of the air.
Walking in the Snow
When the fog and the frost roll in and the snow crunches underfoot and the air nips at the fingers and the toes freeze in the boots, it’s time to go pruning […]
The Exquisite Beauty of Gravity
There is a tension …. … between what rises … …and what finds the core. Sometime’s it’s weightless. Sometimes it rises. Sometimes it falls. Sometimes it balances. But […]
The Many Forms of Water
Drops of water: Winter Haws A drop of time: Winter Bud Drops of seed… Blue-Bunched Wheatgrass Drops of light … Ponderosa Pine Drops of water… Winter Hips Leaf drop… Cottonwood Drops […]
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