Exhibit 1: the Wealthy Man’s SculptureNo one knows what those metal bits on the top are. Intriguingly, poisoned plants around its base are considered a good way to sell building lots worth up […]
What if Newton Moved Here and Met a Rainbow Face to Face?
Rainbow with a starling. Rainbow with trees. And what would Newton see? God. Mind you, he’d miss the bird and the tree. Oops. Isaac, a human body looks at a rainbow. That’s the point. […]
Speaking the Language of the Birds
Raven and the moon … An Old Story The reason that people could once read the language of the birds to tell the future is that if you are a place you […]
A Simple Moment Alone with the Earth
The old version: Spring is the season in which plants grow. They make use of a series of adaptations to regulate their growth to a period of year with the combination of […]
Balance
Today, words in praise of bunch grass. The roots of this blue-bunched wheatgrass fill the space between the plants.The soil is their sky. They reach out into it for the clouds of […]
Okanagan Easter Meditation
This is what Easter looks like here. Do you see that? Yeah, no people. Canada is an urban country. It views its land as a resource, to be used to create more urban space. […]
Saskatoon Petals Falling on Stone
A self portrait.
Earth Mother Visits the Abandoned Orchard
Looking good, Mrs. Coyote. Always good to see my people out and about, dressed in their going-to-town finery of light.
Industrial Agriculture is Unethical
Earth, or machine. One increases diversity. One reduces it. Or is it so? When the Syilx managed these grasslands with fire and selective harvesting methods, they increased species diversity. The species-rich landscape that the […]
Badgers: Gardeners of the Sun
The balsam roots are tossing in the wind.This grassland is on a hill because it is created by hills. Wind and water never stop moving there, powered by the turning of the […]
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