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, […]
Thinking with Shadows
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 […]
Poetry and Water
Does anything that touches water bend it? Or does the water bend to receive it? Is water subject to gravity? Or does it make an empty space under a willow tree, for […]
Water and Air
In water, things achieve a true essence… That’s because on the earth, the sun meets water. It creates trees, and those other trees, that are like looking at myself in a language […]
Put That Android Phone Down Right Now!
This is cool. Here’s a conscious moment at the mouth of Lower BX Creek… Willows Being Willows. Water Being Water. And here’s what the subconscious mind sees… The Sky is Water Do […]
Muskrats That Live in the Trees
This is an awfully wonderful planet — sometimes delightfully so. Here is a typical reed dweller… Red Winged Blackbird Giving Me the Eye The weak colour of his wing patch indicates that […]
Wisdom Maps
The universe is mapped out in the bark of Ponderosa pines. I spent many afternoons in my childhood trying to read them, but haven’t figured it out yet. It’s a pleasing way […]
