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 […]
The Magical Language of Opals
Alive in the World: Beyond Poetry and Science
The sun rises in the east? No, not really. It materializes in the fog. Sure, objectively, the earth turns, and there the sun is, ta da, but, seriously, look: But is it […]
In and Out of Colonial Canada on the Path of the Gulls
The gulls, eh. Restless at dusk. Maybe they can show us a path away from the colonial mapped and fenced landscape. They do circle around, don’t they! Imagine the interlocking fields of […]
Cutting Water and Binding Light
At first, dimness. In the dim world, a loon, which flies, swims and dives (and thus lives in all worlds at once.) This is the shadow world, that moves through all things, […]
The Sun is Not a Focussing Aparatus
Every moment of the sun is as focus as any other moment. This is hard for a human eye. It’s used to burrowing through light, to throw it into dimensions, which it […]
2000 Posts of Okanagan Okanogan: a Celebration!
2000 times I have looked closely at the land and squawked to you what I have seen. It has been beautiful. But then the world has gone up in smoke. And […]
The Golden Man of the Chasm
At the head of the Chasm, right below where the cascade of the melting ice sheet fell 12,000 years ago, in the dawn light of spring, a golden man with horns appears […]
What is Buddha So Happy About?
Deep on Gabriola Island, there’s something worth smiling about, but what? Ah, a car fuel tank. Among the vegetable beds! It’s as simple as that.
Artificial Intelligence and Creation
The people of the world of the creation are creatures. They are creations, created by looking to the world in wonder (or anguish, confusion, need, joy or contentment, puzzlement or any other […]
Darwin Missed Out, Poor Guy
Flowers are lovely. Creatures come to settle in. The flower calls, and the world answers. It’s the same with the stalk. Those seeds aren’t going to be spread on their own! It’s […]
