In much of Cascadia, public space is very limited. Here is a narrow strip of it, winding through the Palouse, in one of our regions administered by the USA. Washington State Highway […]
A Private and Public Election
Reading Today at the Ryga Festival
Today, I’m off to Summerland to share some words and thoughts at The Ryga Festival. Here’s how they put it: Thursday, August 30 Harold Rhenisch Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm Harold Rhenisch reads from his […]
What Changes are Happening in the Earth?
That’s what a Secwepemc man asked me on an evening like this, with this view in front of us. What is the earth doing? He didn’t mean, what are people doing to […]
Unlaunching the Okanagan in Kelowna Tonight
Tonight, March 9, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. at the Laurel Packinghouse, at the corner of Cawston and Ellis in Kelowna, I will be helping to unlaunch the Okanagan. Read all about it here. […]
Ancient Stories Written in the Rock
At the bottom of Skaha Lake, where the Okanagan River once collected itself in a series of oxbows and reefs before dropping over the falls (a series of steep rapids), the point at […]
Beyond Individual Identity
There are several ways to do write on rock. You can chisel into the rock with another rock: Petroglyph, Columbia Hills State Park You can write on the rock. She Who Watches, […]
Heart
Here’s the heart of the Columbia Plateau. It’s the heart of all the people. Palouse Falls, This Afternoon Let me put that another way. If you live on the plateau, this is […]
The Life of the Cosmos, or Reviewing Lee Smolen
Here’s something troubling. It comes from theoretical physicist Lee Smolen. Lee Smolen, Physicist Source He writes: …all talk of future, past, and present is relative to the moment of time of the […]
Moving Into Turtle Island and Living in the Sun
I have come to the point at which the land and my self are one. It is not a politically correct space, but there it is. This is what I look like […]
When the Sun Sets It’s Time to Make a Bed of Wild of Thistles
In Palouse Falls, the world of the heart below the falls is separated from the world of dream above it. Here is a thistle plant at dusk in the world of the […]
Okanagan Okanogan 