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 […]
The Golden Man of the Chasm
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 […]
The Meaning of Life
Imagine you are sitting among your ancestors, and you ask them, “What is the meaning of life?” and they answer with this: What do they mean? Oh, sure, some of them are […]
The Teachings of Water
When I look into the water I see blurred shapes. Or do I? Are they not, rather, revealed ones? Is this not a message from my body? Is it not the intersection […]
How to Travel in Time, Seriously: an Indigenous Journey
Well, to travel in time, you could just wait, like this stink bug on this mustard. Here it is, three generations ago: It’s blending in better now! European thinking holds that we […]
Forest Salmon in the Salmon Forest
In a trickle of water among the ferns among the roots of a red cedar tree high above San Josef Bay, … a tiny salmon lives out its first year, hunting insects […]
The Heart of the Shuswap
Some rocks are sacred. The twins that allow water to reveal its spirit. The two halves of the heart. And what a spirit! Spirit on spirit on spirit. This red blood. The […]
California Quail in the Rainforest
The ancient salmon forests of the Pacific Coast were felled long ago. Well, most of them. Hoh Some of the lost ones went to houses in Vancouver and Seattle. People still live […]
