What happens when a 135-kilometre-long lake made out of 10,000-year-old melted glacier starts to re-freeze? Spirit! This should be a day off work for the 300,000 people in the valley. We could […]
Beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful Ice
Beauty in a Roadside Puddle
Life is an arrangement of energies and tensions.It helps to slow them down, as the ice in this roadside puddle did overnight. Perhaps it’s not life that’s the story, but boundaries, where […]
Life in the Snow
Here’s a piece of a cliff, a rare remnant of the Chilcotin Basalt that the glaciers didn’t scour away this far south. These rocks flowed on top of the land and set […]
The Seventh Dimension
Yesterday, I explored six dimensions of bodies on the grasslands. I’d like to show you the seventh today. I’d like to talk about ethics. Let me introduce you to one of the […]
Introduction to the Sixth Dimension
I’ve been talking about human bodies in the grassland, represented as lines, fields and houses. I think it’s very important at this point of human domination over a living planet to overturn […]
Humans Go 3-D
Yesterday I talked about how humans (and dogs) navigate the world through one- and two-dimensional patterns and the intersections between them. These are less qualities of the world than qualities of the […]
Dogs and Humans: the Showdown
Here’s something cool about dogs. Footprints in the Snow Dogs follow edges. When you’re a dog, you don’t even think about it. You go for boundaries, and you stay there. Since the […]
Creative Space in Iceland
I’d like to show you a post I just made for my Icelandic blog, because it links to ideas about creativity I played with here a couple days ago. Those ideas link […]
Water, Life and Thought:
What is the difference between this? And this? Why, the same as the difference between this… … and this. None at all. Water flows. Sometimes it takes minerals along with it. Sometimes […]
What to Look for On Mars
The search for life on Mars concentrates on geology and chemistry, not because life is entirely a business of geology or chemistry, but because a) those things can be measured and b) […]
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