These are the people … This is the time when the water rises. It is the time when seed descends. It is the time when rushes draw water from the cold… … […]
In Praise of Wetlands
Talking With the Trees
Here’s a dolmen in North Wales. Note the tree. The dolmen is thousands of years older than the tree. It has a lid, to keep out the rain, I guess. Like a […]
E = MC2 and Slavery
E = mc2 is Einstein’s attempt to express the spirit of the universe in numbers. The principle he is getting at looks sort of like this: Snow on Bunchgrass I say “sort of” because […]
Tracking the Ring-Necked Pheasant into Deep Time
Is life a story of gas pressures in liquid during changing temperature? Is it a story of light following fissures in substance, and so sorting itself out into different qualities? Is it […]
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 […]
The Beauty of Ice and Grass
Plants lay down their intricate patterns based on cycles of pressure and release, which are in turn formed by intricate and varied patterns of water, carbon and gas pressures, like this I guess. Note […]
The Pattern of Life
Check this out. Here are two rose hips at sundown. Note the long stem, the flattened sphere of the fruit, and the long floral leaves. Now check out this mud puddle ice just up […]
Life Flows
Dorothy Ann Rhenisch March 10, 1935 – November 23, 2014 Goðafoss, Ísland
Teleportation, Anti-Gravity and Art
Defying gravity? It’s a trick of light. If the sun had moved its substance to earth physically, there would be no water and no life. Reforming itself in a new form, that’s the […]
Beautiful Paper Wasps
A weed will do. Or a board up against a roof. Life is an amazing thing.
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