Imagine looking up at the hill and seeing the spirit that has been there for 12,000 years for the first time. 450,000 people live in the Okanagan/Okanogan Valley. For all of us, […]
The Spirit of the Okanagan
Ponderosa Pine Picks Up the Sky in Her Chopsticks
The Ethical and Environmental Role of Poetry
Here’s an image of one ecological niche filled two ways, both of which move water into light. One creates biological life. The other creates electricity, in support of a custom of social life called […]
The Sun Rises
The heart rises with it. Sunrise Over the White Lake Hills That’s the way it is on this earth, for creatures born to it.
Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
There is a tree that determines the home range of a people. This is the North Plateau Ponderosa Pine, known in Latin as pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson. Wherever this tree […]
Red and Not Dead
Are sumac drupes cast into snow by birds random? No. Are rowan berries random? No. Are yellow dock seeds cast onto the snow by wind random? Are the scales of the bark […]
The Cicada Goddess Singing On the Mountain
I saw the goddess this morning, and she was beautiful. It was up on the mountain, on the lip of an old volcano, where a few Pinaus Lake Ponderosa Pines have survived […]
Writing for the Future: An Ecology of the English Language
I wrote this for my writing blog, Witual, today, and thought that while I compile a post about new vegetables for the Okanagan, you might like to have a look about how […]
Finding the Earth’s Story, Finding my Own
I’m off. Or is it going home? At any rate, it involves Iceland. I’ll continue these meditations on place from there for six weeks. I fully expect to get to their heart. There […]
Wisdom Maps
The universe is mapped out in the bark of Ponderosa pines. I spent many afternoons in my childhood trying to read them, but haven’t figured it out yet. It’s a pleasing way […]
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