We are all grieving, for people lost, lives damaged, and a beautiful town vanished from Cascadia. The scorching temperatures in Lytton this last week, and the horrible loss of the entire town […]
Global Warming in Lytton, A Long View
The Power of Opening
We are clematis. The rushing waters where the Pacific Ocean lifts to the sky and splashes down on rock sometimes look dry, scoured by the sky more than by water… … and […]
Space, Place, Land and the Deceptions of Language
Things are what they are. If you see in that image a boulder covered in two varieties of lichen, you are seeing words and the resonance they make when they draw on […]
Getting Our Land Back 10: The Deep Poetic Ecology of Cascadia
The mountain is not passive. Only finished products are passive. Only “naming” to make an action into a noun creates objects. That is the point of naming. The mountain, however, is an […]
Two Years at Nicomen Falls
Here’s an image I made at Nicomen Falls in the spring of 2017. The river had a way of talking, as you can see, and I responded by pushing the image close […]
Guardian of the Ancient Trail
Here’s a trail leading from an ancient camp at the foot of a mysterious canyon complex crisscrossed by deer trails, cool with water in a hot land, and sprouting berries and herbs. […]
Crow Going Out for Dinner in Beautiful Downtown Spences Bridge
Yes, the grove of trees is open for whatever staggers in off the road. The sign says so, and we’re supposed to read the signs, right? Caw, caw, caw. As you can […]
Not Necessarily the Anthropocene
Earth has a mouth …… but it is not a human mouth, although the family resemblance holds. Earth has a throat … … and a urethra … … but they are not […]
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