Let’s follow a word from the world, as it moves into our bodies and then through them into our social lives. Here is a well. A well, yes. It is a hole […]
Reading Penn Kemp and the World: The Role of Poetry in Civic Planning
The Beach at Dusk
After the bold statement, the exploration. Canada is a colony and its poetry, science, transportation structures and administration are colonial. OK, that’s the statement. Now for the niggly bits. They concern themselves […]
Ponderosa Pines: The Van Goghs of the Leaf World
Some leaves have trunks. Goethe said that all plants come from leaves. The rest is modified leaf. Maybe more than that. Look below. Some leaves have rocks. Both deliver support, sun, water, […]
Deer Spotting: Enormous Fun
Long before you see, you are seen. In fact, “seeing” is to enter the “seen” space. The buck below saw me, long, long before I saw him, but when I saw him […]
Let’s Not Be Too Romantic Now
The Okanagan Valley in which I live is sold as a place of beauty and purity in the midst of a wilderness. This project has been underway for about 125 years. The […]
The Many are One and the One is Many
The concept of many… … is also the concept of one. All see. This “seeing” is not the “seeing of the human eye” or the “insight in the mind that is the […]
Magpie’s Thoughts on Land Claims
Middle Class Country: an American pop culture project. Dude Ranch Country: an older American pop culture project. Spiritual Country: a Chinese-European folk cultural project. Artistic Country: an American cultural export installation. […]
Indigenous Culture, Settler Culture and Canada: Agriculture’s Highways and Byways
Harold Innis argued long ago … Societies that depend solely on time-biased media are oral and tribal. Although leadership tends to be hierarchical, time-bound societies may also operate by consensus. Since, in […]
Nitrogen Dispersal Protocols for Environmentally Friendly Farming
The farm below solves the problem of nitrogen run-off cleverly. It grows plants that are so nitrogen hungry that they deplete the soil, while any remaining nitrogen is trucked away, to be […]
Binding Energy
Binding energy is powerful. A single leaf touches a rush, and holds to it. One by one, other leaves touch, and are held, each by a point of touch. Strands can be […]
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