Reading water is almost easy when it is frozen. Okanagan Lake is a large body of water, 351 square kilometres of it, in fact. To put that in perspective, here are some […]
Reading the Water on a Winter Day
Pruning the Sun: The Intimate Relationship Between Fruit Trees and Words
Eighteen months ago, I showed you this image of a cherry tree in bloom. It was early in the pandemic and I was thinking of building a life that extended past it. […]
Great Two Headed Cliff
For 12,000 years these cliffs west of Keremeos have been revealing their faces like this, and then weathering and retreating from view. This is the newest chapter in this old story. This […]
Reading Trees
Every piece of the bark of a ponderosa pine fits together… and comes apart. It is a kind of hieroglyphic language — a special one, in which each word is unique and […]
Getting Our Land Back 10: The Deep Poetic Ecology of Cascadia
The mountain is not passive. Only finished products are passive. Only “naming” to make an action into a noun creates objects. That is the point of naming. The mountain, however, is an […]
Meaning, Memory, Minding, Mind
Last week, I spoke about Wide Energy. At the end, I showed this image of it from the Similkameen: At the time, I noted: These are the energies that shape us and […]
Deer Spotting: Enormous Fun
Long before you see, you are seen. In fact, “seeing” is to enter the “seen” space. The buck below saw me, long, long before I saw him, but when I saw him […]
Enslaving the Earth Through Reading
A book is a portable device for storing and sharing information, using multiple screens viewed in sequence to lead its readers through narratives of time. If there is no narrative of time, […]
What If We Stopped Reading Books?
What if we read the Earth instead? Not to collect it or sample it or catalogue or analyze it or fit it into a narrative we already know, but to read it. […]
Matisse and the Nez Perce
Reading the sky, I’ve just realized, is not a matter of translating the dramatic movements of clouds and light into words or ideas, but reacting to them in the manner of responding […]
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