Here’s a word that is worth bringing back into the language: heft. Its modern form indicates a weight, or heaviness, weighed by hand. No scale required. You lift a thing to get […]
The Resistance Begins
There are no words for this.The sun uses wind …. … and water … … to move sand. You could say it was gravity, or resistance, or wave forms … … but really, […]
Summer Offering at Peshastin
A young bird (or an ancient one) … … needs to eat (or your soul does.) It’s the paying of attention that is the gift.
Where the Heart is Home: A Celebration
I love this land. I guess you know that. I am this land. Other writers might talk about identity and ego and alter ego and personality, but I just want to take you […]
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, […]
The Power of Rock
Life is a great force on this planet, but so is rock. Just look at this one!The interplay of this kind of steadiness and resistance within the web of life can be most […]
Chief Joseph’s Bell
Let us remember in these cold months, that the earth is alive… Young Salmon, Hanford Reach, Columbia River … that multiple generations and species share flows of energy, not space or land […]
The Story So Far
Two things for you today: a cool monolith from the Peshastin Pinnacles, and the complete pdf version of my summary of my year wandering in the grass, which I presented to the […]
Wild Orchards and Fenced Orchards
Like a pack of young red-tailed hawks circling over and over above a subdivision full of cats and mice, house finches, California Quail and small dogs, I’ve been worrying an idea: it’s […]
No Wonder This Place is Called Turtle Island
Turtles like water, and they like the land, too. They’re at home in both. That’s a mighty power. They helped created the world from a ball of muddy muck as well. Well […]
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