There is hardly a difference between Earth and sky. … is scarcely different from water cut by sky. Where the hillside is slowed by stones… … and snow buckwheat… Are these not […]
Breathing the Sun
Fishing for the Sun
Catching the sun might seem easy. It moves quickly, though. And has no clear source. Is it here? Is it there? Some choose to just wait. Others realize that it’s not about […]
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, […]
Sunearth and Earthsun
The sun sinks into itself at the same time it is expanding outward. Formed in the same cosmic whirlpool, the Earth does the same. The sinking is easy to see, and the […]
Burn Baby Burn
The flicker perches in the flame. The damselfly survives the cold of September, extending summer, by perching on a rock that absorbs the flame. Humans hold the flame (of burning flicker trees) […]
Life On Turtle Island
Swim in the molten snow. Come up into the sky. Spend your day in the sun. Gardom Lake We are turtle!
Green and Orange and Orange and Green
Imagine if you were a leaf eating light. You’d eat one set of wavelengths if you lived in the water… The water would transmit flow. … and another on land. The air […]
Never Too Hot to Touch
You wouldn’t want to put your hand into the sun, and yet, when it is concentrated, and brought inside a living chain of hydrogen and carbon… …when it is right there before […]
The Power of Mountains
It’s a trickster power that mountains have. They create wind just by passing the sun between them, across the sky. Sunrise in the Similkameen (and the Puddin’head Talus in shadow) In the […]
Big Sagebrush is Soooooo Bossy
See the deer trails to the left of the bluff in the middle of the image? Here’s some more, 500 metres to the right. They look like slumping patterns on the hill, […]
