The task is to provide young people with support for their energy and visions, and space for them to open them into physical and social expression. All young people have a need […]
The Mysterious Edges of Water
Some waves are wet… Some are dry. Water is a form of collection of this energy, not its substance. It is its pooling. Rivers are its flow — both of the energy and […]
Do You Think Light Moves in Straight Lines?
Not when it combines with water. Or with wind. Then it flows like water. With a spring of light added to it. We begin here in this land. Then we go further. […]
Wind Light Water Light Wind
The water is grass in the wind. The grass is water in the wind. Again? The water is the sun in the wind. The grass is the sun in the wind. And without the […]
The Bounty of Water in a Dry Country
This is water. It is called Okanagan Lake. In Icelandic, where indigenous European language survives, it is a vatn, specifically a space of free water. Of that, it is a special form, […]
Poetry and Water
Does anything that touches water bend it? Or does the water bend to receive it? Is water subject to gravity? Or does it make an empty space under a willow tree, for […]
The Opening of Time is Space
Not grass gone to seed, but the seeds that opened into themselves. Blue Bunch Wheatgrasses In Front of an Approaching Storm And are held up in the air by the track of […]
Reality and Illusion in the Okanagan Valley
Here is a slideshow of some images from the web about orchards in my country. Here’s the reality. They’re not orchards. They are thickets. What do people actually want, though? Why, to camp […]
The Private Landscapes of the Okanagan Valley
Here’s a healthy stand of bunchgrass, which I showed you a couple days ago. As I mentioned, the Okanagan Valley of the North Eastern Pacific Rim probably looked like this 200 years […]
The Okanagan’s Missing Water
Here it is. Blue Bunch Wheatgrass This 10-year-old re-seeded slope shows the likely historical condition of the valley under Syilx stewardship. This grass is very much alive. The valley hasn’t looked like […]
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