When you are born to a world, in which the old growth forests are bunchgrasses less than a metre high… … and live in these forests for close to half the time […]
The Wind in the Grass
28. The Spiritual Power of Horses in Old Oregon
To recap: the extensive Indigenous slave trade with the Spanish in the Southwest, and a fight for new technology (the horse), drove Indigenous cultural change on the western edges of New France […]
The Colours of the Okanagan
Forget summer. We spend half the year within cloud that is the breath of the lake held in the air by pressure off the mountains and the sea. If you’re going to […]
Minding the Earth
To look at the water is to look into the mind. Really. Look. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, it’s Dihydrogen Oxide in a liquid state, with some weeds growing in it, lightly […]
The Sacred Mountain of the North Okanagan
I went down to the lake to read the news. Terrace Mountain was pretty free with it. This old stratovolcano showed me a bird feeding something, or about to devour something. Note […]
Pigeons and Dates under the Rising Sun
Blessings. The darkness is falling back now. The sun is coming back. Look who showed up today in Penticton. What ancient symbols of renewal! A pigeon and Russian Olives (a kind of […]
Freeing Ourselves from The Illusion of the Real
So, which is “real”? The chokecherries at the end of day? Or the chokecherries seen through a moving camera’s errors? It sure seems to me that something of the chokecherry’s essence is […]
There is a power in the world, that fills. Wherever there is emptiness, it fills it. This is not a function of the world. Scientific inquiry has shown clearly enough that there […]
Thinking with Shadows
Shadows are great. You can walk right through them. You can feel them pass over you like a cool hand. They are the space an object blocks from a source of light, […]
Leaves, and Life after Life
Each leaf is the trace of the ongoing reach of Leafing energy, or life. Each is a face of Flat energy, which is the energy we know as Floating. All things pass […]
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