Land and water are land-and-water: one substance. Salish Sea, the Islands and the Coast Mountains Talk about this weave doesn’t have to start with words. Below is a conversation that places human […]
Land is Water and Water is Land
Roads to Nowhere
Here’s a pretty typical Cascadian road. It goes across the high prairie north of the Columbia River, but not to the prairie. It goes through it. On its way to somewhere else. […]
The Sməlqmix Apricot is Back!
She took last year to heal from the cold, but look at her now! Calling her friends far and wide, too! (They come, of course.)
How to Get to Cascadia
Having trouble finding Cascadia, now that the US-Canadian Border is becoming fraught? Well… That’s right. You can get there. But maybe not the direct way. By plugging in? Well, you might get […]
A Meditation at Buffalo Eddy
A petroglyph site on the Snake River south of Asotin, called “Buffalo Eddy” because of the dominant figure below, speaks to the river day and night. The figure appears nowhere else and […]
A Private and Public Election
In much of Cascadia, public space is very limited. Here is a narrow strip of it, winding through the Palouse, in one of our regions administered by the USA. Washington State Highway […]
Rural or Urban or …?
The other day, here, https://okanaganokanogan.com/2024/10/17/what-does-rural-british-columbia-need/, I rephrased the question “What does rural British Columbia need?” as an entirely different one: “What do the land and water need?” Beaver Bay, Big Bar Lake. […]
Earth and Sky
On the northern flank of Kobau Mountain, they flow into each other. Yesterday it was best to speak of them as one. Still are.
A Hungry Day
A bad day for flying, too. Ponderosa Pines on Turtle Ridge So, maybe you can still catch a bite, right? In the fall rye? You know, the vegetable field, past and future […]
Need Water? Make Some. Need Land? Make Some of That, Too.
Just, like, you know, find a cliff and get rooted. This is an old railway cut, but a road cut will do fine. For this approach, it’s good to be below a […]
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