If you try to walk up this gully, you will get less than a metre. Then you’ll be done. Simply put, it is not for humans. It is for water, and water […]
The Lessons of Water
The Earth’s Opening into Speech: Bright
In contemporary, light-dominated culture, brightness is an intensity of light energy, like this: Winter Sun on Okanagan Lake The original, Earth-based meaning of “bright”, however, is an opening, which fills with […]
The Draw of the Salish Sea
Inland from the Pacific, on the west coast of Cascadia, the Salish Sea fills the glacially-carved mountain valley system between Vancouver Island and the older island chains lifted into the sky in […]
Spirit Mountains and Ice Rivers of the Similkameen
The Similkameen River makes a big bend to the east at the foot of Chopaka and Hurley Peak (the left and right peaks below) A few ridges and fifty miles to the […]
Space: the Human Habitat
Snow looks white and cold. It looks like a cold carpet over the earth. That’s the way a mammal thinks. A mammal has built itself around its own stove. To the creatures […]
At Home in the Earth Community
Like the grass on the Big Bar Esker below, I don’t live in the straight beams of light. I live at the continuity of points of intersection with them, which bend in […]
Life is the Edge
… Here’s an image of water, made with light. Here’s an image of light, made by water: Nice game, huh. The real story is that both are edges, at which light […]
The Joke is On Us
It’s that time of year! An Old Tradition Hangs On Despite the infill of subdivisions, old habits of spring burning aren’t dead yet. The bigger the flames the better, it seems. Sun […]
