Sturdiness is a prime attribute for construction on the high plateau. Cleverness is better. After all, there are hawks.
Mind and Body are One
Things are just what they seem. Like dreams, the act of looking into water has no words. And it can’t be given any, except the simplest ones: blue, log, deep, water, light, wet, […]
Selfless Living
Imagine, you put your heart here for a time. Then you walk here across the grass and leave your mind. Perhaps it will meet a bear later. Then you walk further into the […]
The Bears of the Sun
Meet my friend kinnikinnik. She lives in the sun. See how the sun that this boulder catches in the early spring keeps her warm nights, so she can set and ripen her […]
Becoming the Earth
Scientific culture tells us there is no relationship between this energy … … and this energy … … or this one … … but it does propose a series of material causes and […]
Bear Going Nowhere
Two years ago, a mama bear taught her cub how to find grubs at Big Bar Lake, by knocking the cap off this old tree carcass. This year, as a two-year-old kicked […]
The Thing About Abstract Art
It isn’t abstract. Concrete Forms of Water, Mass, Gravity and Light Nice work by the raindrops, eh! “Abstraction” is just a cultural term, signifying a preference to live within a certain group of […]
Beautiful Wasp at Home
Somebody loves snow buckwheat. Best not to plant lavender in its place, don’t you think?
Dawn on Earth
It is a wave breaking on a shore. It is sifted by trees that hold the night within themselves. The sun enters the water, and shines from there. (In the image below, it catches a […]
Why Beauty?
Beauty is a signature that a human was present, using its bodily senses to measure the precise balances in a landscape and to align its body with them. Some beautiful early morning […]
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