In water, an island is an eye of land giving sight to water. On land, an island is a pool of water giving life to air. Grasslands are oceanic environments. Deer surf.
Surfing the Island Archipelagoes of the Okanagan
How to Travel in Time, Seriously: an Indigenous Journey
Well, to travel in time, you could just wait, like this stink bug on this mustard. Here it is, three generations ago: It’s blending in better now! European thinking holds that we […]
Slow Fire in the Okanagan
It has been a summer of fast fires, burning off the growth of a century throughout the grasslands and fire forests between the mountain ranges of the North East Pacific Coast. While […]
American Dipper Among the Salmon
This is the bird that weaves the worlds of water, air and stone. It walks into the water and out of it again. To Dipper, these worlds are one. Deep under the […]
Our Ancestors Are Not All Human. Neither Are We.
The salmon come home, but they do not come home alone. Sure, they have each other … … but that’s not what I mean. They come home to the ancestors. Have a […]
Indigenous or Aboriginal or Both or Neither, eh?
The Prime Minister of Canada, the colonial power in this space, spoke to the UN the other day about the need for Canada to reconcile itself with its aboriginal peoples. Notice that […]
The Heart of the Shuswap
Some rocks are sacred. The twins that allow water to reveal its spirit. The two halves of the heart. And what a spirit! Spirit on spirit on spirit. This red blood. The […]
The Art of Waiting
A spider waits for the wind. So does salsify. The spider wants to receive it. The salsify wants to become it. Is salsify a spider, or is spider salsify? The question is […]
So Many Shades of Green!
Sumac turning before its time, in the smoky sun. I’d say she’s done this before.
Raven Contemplates Fire
Salmon Arm, Shuswap Lake That’s 100 years of smoke between Raven and the water.
Okanagan Okanogan 