Very slowly, and with great drama and beauty, the atmosphere breaks bedrock to bits. Why are we not farming the air? It is doing this everywhere, with a bit of help from […]
Farming the Atmosphere
Healing Climate Change in the Grasslands of the Okanagan
In the last couple of posts, I talked about the industrial, environmental and social costs of growing fruit in the Okanagan Valley. You can have a peek in this post: The True Costs […]
The Life of Water
Under certain conditions, water freezes in curves around the expanding pressure of air, in a shape reminiscent of liquid water giving way to form. At other times, it freezes in the shape […]
How to Survive as a Deer in the Cold: Let the Sun be Your Shovel
It’s a lot of work to break down through the snow with your hooves and try to find some grass, especially some nice fresh green grass in the middle of the winter. […]
Northern Lights at Mid-day in the Shuswap
On the eastern edge of the dry grasslands, the ocean builds a rainforest far, far inland. It has its treasures. To find them, it’s best to put snowshoes on and take your […]
The Spirit of Okanagan Lake
Look at the cloud move south past Squally Point, keeping to the east, and Okanagan Mountain. Note the waves coming onto the Peachland Beach. Thing is, there is no wind. It is […]
Red Power
Red is traditionally the colour of life and power. It is associated with blood. For this, a belief in the power of redness is scoffed at in scientific circles, in which it […]
The World is Born Anew
Water shapes air, but air shapes water. Wasps shape paper, but paper shapes wasps. Together, they make the moon. It’s not the same if you break the spell. Tread lightly. […]
Sunearth and Earthsun
The sun sinks into itself at the same time it is expanding outward. Formed in the same cosmic whirlpool, the Earth does the same. The sinking is easy to see, and the […]
Let’s Not Overthink Things
The simplest gestures… … speak most deeply. Only bodies speak. Words are only gestures that guide memory to them. From there, we are on our own.
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