Say, perhaps you’ve noticed a relationship between pools of water and pools of stone and without the colonial notion of gravity to steer your understanding of cause and effect into the patterns […]
Wood, Esh and the Altars of the Mind
Yesterday, I introduced you to thick energy. Today, I would like to show you how it can be put to use. First, there’s the method I touched on yesterday, the method of […]
Okanagan Woman and Magic
Strange, the things that come in the mail all on their own. There I was reading over coffee, looking over a manuscript about this valley, and thinking about the mail. So I […]
The Secrets of Dawn
The blue of the sky divides into darkness and light. Then the sky separates. The light falls, then rises again from the Earth. There are glimpses to the world within the clouds […]
Alder, the Doorway into the Otherworld
The other world is here.
Who is a Person?
Oh, here’s a person: Your writer says hi. When you get a whole bunch of persons together you get people. Like this: Plateau Men Fishing, Celilo Falls on the Columbia River, c.1950 […]
When is a Wasp a Flower?
Here’s a wasp on some desert parsley two days ago. Check out the scaly covers of her wings. Here’s a willow on the same day. Note the scaly covers of her […]
The Magic of Shade and Shadows
Shade is defined as the effect that comes when something blocks the sun. Fair enough. All shade is not equal, though. Here are, in no particular order, choke cherry shade … … […]
