Before the cognitive mind does its wonders, body and eye do their thinking. This is thinking without cognition. They don’t need it. Traditions of cognitive thinking will analyze such thought. They might […]
Thought and Memory are the Body Thinking
Meander: the Flow of Thought
I think we’ve been discussing words long enough (here) to begin using them. Might be fun. Let’s give it a whirl. Blue Bunch Wheatgrass Whirlling, Big Bar Eskers When ore waters to […]
A Short Grammar of Body, Mind and Earth in the Winter Woods
Distance is light, but darkness warms and invites. More specifically, the middle distance, deep within the complexity of nerves, within the body itself, comforts and invites with shelter. And not just shelter, […]
Making Humans
On the shores of Kalamalka Lake there is an ancient village. It’s so old it has been forgotten. The people who live there now don’t know that the land that called them, […]
The Mind of a Thistle
This is russian thistle in her glory. Look at her climb a ladder of carbon to the sun, with precisely placed synapses to receive the wind. The colour of her sepals (not […]
Patterns in the Earth
Life branches. That is a consequence of being a chain of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Even the ants below are making branching patterns out of their nest. That’s the earth for you. […]
The Spirit of Birds and Trees
Watching the magpies watch me today, in their way of leapfrogging from tree to tree to fencepost to shrub to shrub to post up the slope, always 70 metres apart, always keeping […]
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