Some cultures are so ancient that they watched the glaciers come and go 10,000 years ago. So it is with the Syilx culture of today’s Colville Confederated Tribes. Once the ice melted […]
Why It’s Important to Talk About Creativity
Over the past month I’ve exploring human identities and creativity and their impact on the environment. I do this because I have brothers and sisters, not just humans (but humans, too, including you), […]
Bald Eagle Above Kalamalka Lake
Today, I have been seen by the spirit of the air. I like that.
Coyotes Dancing, You Come Too
Looks just like a pile of gravel, eh. Na, see those coyote tracks on the left? These ones? They come from several directions. Even from, sort of, this one (on the […]
Beautiful Balance
The bubbles of air that have been drawn by wave action concentrated by an opening and closing gap on the ice of Okanagan Lake, go no further than the crack. Under the […]
When Wind is Not Wind
Grass is one of the clever plants of our planet. Look how these grasses are using the weight of snow to bend their stalks down. When the snow falls off in a […]
The Spiritual and Technological Roots of Individualism in the Environment, part 2
The American psychologist Abraham Maslow had some thoughts about creativity: It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is […]
Winter Sun in the Okanagan
This is when we who live here are simultaneously closest to the earth and living among the stars. Summer can’t beat this!
At Home in the Earth Community
Like the grass on the Big Bar Esker below, I don’t live in the straight beams of light. I live at the continuity of points of intersection with them, which bend in […]
Beauty, Art and the Self
Beautiful, isn’t it. This, too. Note the patterning in this kind of thing. Sure, it was carefully framed, but oh so many frames were possible. They all have pattern. They’re all beautiful. […]
Okanagan Okanogan 