Good news! The ring-necked pheasant up on the hill has two hens. Here he is. The hens are going to fly up in front of me a couple minutes later. Ring-Necked Pheasant […]
Ring-Necked Pheasant
Walk With the Earth, Then Fly
I made a comment yesterday, that it would be a moment of great disrespect to write a poem about a moment of beauty in the spring. Back in the 1980s, we were […]
Seeing Through Rock
How do you know there’s a lake behind the hill? Like this: View Over the Commonage Towards Kalamalka Lake, Vernon Just keep watching. That’s the trick. View Over the Commonage Towards Kalamalka […]
The Incubator Part 2
On Friday, I introduced the Cube, an experimental art space in Campbell River, as a model for a new type of art mentorship. If you missed it, here’s the discussion. For almost […]
The Incubator
For four years I knocked around in the Vancouver Island city of Campbell River, an old pulp mill and fishing town that has met hard times. It contains, however, two remarkable artists. […]
The Best Classroom Ever
I’ve been thinking about how to teach earth writing. I think I’ve found the place. Earth: A Good Place to Get Down to Work This is the view from Bella Vista towards […]
Water, the Inuit and Everyone
The road is long. It is worth travelling. The road is hard. It must be taken. These aren’t proverbs. They are signposts on the road to environmental reconstruction of human social relationships […]
Gripple Apples
Gripple. Nice word. It has an active form, too: grippling. These old words don’t hang out in a dictionary, though, and Google is hopeless with them, but you can find them in […]
Homeless in Vernon
How could this happen? Homeless in Vernon How could this happen, in between a highway bypass, a rail line, and a marsh? Really? Not even under the sheltering limbs of the elm […]
Water Farming
Yesterday, I introduced the concept of Open Agriculture: a form of agriculture that works with the forms and processes of the land and unites very different settler and indigenous forms of cultivation. Today, […]
Okanagan Okanogan 