Winter sleep is gone. Fresh air and eyes on the horizon is now! The light begins.
The Marmot Wakes
Yellow Clover Walking Across the Face of the Sun
Every yellow clover waits for five minutes as a star of birds. When the birds leave, it leaves with them now.
The Colour of the Okanagan in Winter
Note, how the land folds 15 centimetres of snow inside itself. Note how the pale colours created by the sun in summer amplify it in the winter. Well, if you can even […]
The Canadian Invasion
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Bunch Grass: the Beavers of the Grasslands
Look at the wonder that is bunchgrass. In this country in which snow falls and soon evaporates into the air, the amount of water a plant can keep from either flowing away […]
When Trees are Hills and Hills are Trees
Look how simple these high European landscapes are, how swept by the sea, how chewed by cows, how much the earth has been given over to the sky. Now, compare with the […]
Walking With Bears: a meditation on the place of ecocritical writing today
This is a folded land. Not all lands are made like that, but this one is. We can expect folds from it, and lines of energy, planes tilted up at odd angles, […]
Water Math, Nerves & You
Water – Gravity Water-Light Water – Gravity – Water + Light The doors these mathematics open are not doors into the universe. They are doors into the non-actualized human self. In the way the […]
Looking for the Water and Missing the Well
River, run, Rhine, Herons, Assmannshausen am Rhein Rhone, stream, Strom, flow, fleuve, current, rapid, cataract, these are all one word, a Celtic word, for life’s excess, that streams, that rrrrrrrrrrrrrs. It is […]
Fish Flying Above Chief Ashnola’s Grave
It’s a cactus thing. Ospreys are grassland birds, too. So are trout.
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