Coots love the water so much that they only leave for the deep south (100 kilometres away) when things get too rough in January. Then they come up and literally hug the […]
The Return of the Water People
The Spirit Whale of the Okanagan
Here’s what might sound at first like a fantastical story, but it does end with a deeply practical point. I hope you enjoy it! To start, look at the spirit whale of […]
Tiny Little Moon
It might be tiny, but these poplars breathe in the slow breath of its tides, not in the fast one of that jet speeding south to Vancouver overhead. The tides flood through us, […]
All That Blood Spilling Out So Sweet
Taking away the leaves and showiness, and the sun reflecting in a white glare off of the scales of her limbs, and what is a saskatoon? Just look at her palette, from […]
Singing the Sun So Beautifully
Here’s a paper birch singing the sun today. Here Here are the notes for her sun song put into a ladder of spirit. This is the voice of the universe. Here are […]
Thought and Memory on Watch Over the Grasslands
The grasslands are ruined and replaced with a colony of weeds from the russian steppes, with toxins and diesel fuel in their veins. It is often true, and a source of our […]
The Sun Doesn’t Fall
This is not a metaphor. It is a projection. Across 135,000,000 kilometres of travel through emptiness, the sun reforms. The earth focusses it. Call that fire, that ancient word for coals: red. Call […]
Un-Naming Okanagan Lake
If I look west down the arm of the fjord lake (Okanagan) from the beach down below my house, I see this kind of thing on some evenings … … and this […]
The Real Work
In 2017, the world will not revolve around a streetlight. Let the crossing of the trails begin. Let the bodies be returned to the earth. Let the earth be brought back to […]
The Old Tourism Industry Hits the Water Again Rag
Look at how the wind and water are building the land at the mouth of Vernon Creek. Look at how little Canada deserves this lake. Yup, it’s the time of shame […]
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