
Here’s a little experiment to explore what we talk about when we talk about water and how connected to the Earth and Water English really is. The root of “water”, “wet”, is […]
Here’s a little experiment to explore what we talk about when we talk about water and how connected to the Earth and Water English really is. The root of “water”, “wet”, is […]
What you see sees you. This makes no sense if seeing is identified as an personal act, but if sight is present, like light, then both the seer and the seen are […]
I rather hope for writing and science that appears like this broken cliff at the southern end of Venables Valley Road in the Thompson. There is narrative here, and multi-dimensional placement in […]
There is a difference between the subject of a photograph and its body. This butte above Olalla, in the Keremeos River Valley, for instance. This black bird with an attitude. The blackbird […]
Vernon Creek does a fine job. Look how it builds a sheltering space for waterfowl, out in the sky. Isn’t that great! The creature of the air that makes a home on […]
Here’s a word. Don’t let abstraction fool you. Just be with her for a moment. As you can see, she’s a living creature. Don’t let her dead stalks fool you. Because they’re […]
The ability of a land to display spires of rock, allows for understanding of height as more than the “top” of the body. It means the ability to read your own height […]
What if we read the Earth instead? Not to collect it or sample it or catalogue or analyze it or fit it into a narrative we already know, but to read it. […]
People write poetry for many reasons. Any that is written is not poetry, though, but an incantation that allows for poetry, a force within the universe, to appear. People cannot be taught […]
The American psychologist Abraham Maslow had some thoughts about creativity: It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is […]