In an age of humanism, centered on the concept of humans as discrete physical beings, birth is a simple enough process: an infant gestates in a mother’s womb, comes out, breathes on […]
Birth on New Year’s Day
The Magical Language of Opals
The ground is rich with opal here. Mostly, it is in thin sheets repairing the splintered rock from the violent collision that made this land. You can read it, though. On the […]
Goethe: Poet, Scientist, Admistrator — and our Contemporary?
I’ve mentioned before how the princes of Germany used to study poetry in order to effectively run their countries. 21st Century, Post-Communist Up-date, Dornburg an Der Saale This wasn’t a matter of […]
The Creation Stones of the Thompson River
For a map of the world, past, present and future, there is a stone at the high water line of the Thompson River. If you don’t find it, don’t worry. The […]
Summing Up the Journey Through Earth Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence So Far (and springing forward)
I have been exploring Artificial Intelligence and Earth Intelligence this year. I want to give some practical examples of how Earth Intelligence can be used. As a first step, I have been […]
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 […]
Selfless Living
Imagine, you put your heart here for a time. Then you walk here across the grass and leave your mind. Perhaps it will meet a bear later. Then you walk further into the […]
Sustaining the Okanagan 18: Truth and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Selfhood
Five days ago, I found a psychological diagram attached to a dropped hand-out for the truth and reconciliation process for creating healthy selves in adults who had suffered personal or cultural violence during Canada’s residential […]
Why Beauty?
Beauty is a signature that a human was present, using its bodily senses to measure the precise balances in a landscape and to align its body with them. Some beautiful early morning […]
The Human Signature
Rock (and marmots)… … rock and water … …the thing that makes them similar is you. Here, the same signature shows up again, in an old gold mine in Conconully. Fascinating, isn’t […]
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