First, a Canadian apple tree: Then a Welsh one. Then a Canadian one. Or a bunch, really. Then a Welsh one: Four years old, and the Canadian ones are dying.
Just a Little to the Side of the World
That’s what Christ is up to in Aberdaron, Wales. Like, if he was standing on the world, the rainbow message would not be quite right. Similarly for this pine, reflecting in a […]
The Sly Thing About Fossil Fuels and Farming
The Okanagan Valley is a great place for fences. The concept of taking common land and turning it into private land, and the dispossession of the land’s people that came with it, […]
Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and Love
This is the 19th Century. A waterfall gardened to be a little Africa in Devon, England, a beautiful nod to colonial power, wealth and Empire. Think of it as a living postcard, […]
Sacred Water
What a diminished world, a shadow. Not the Earth, but the world. There is beauty here, but despite the sense of intimacy and closeness that a world gives, it is at a […]
Talking With the Trees
Here’s a dolmen in North Wales. Note the tree. The dolmen is thousands of years older than the tree. It has a lid, to keep out the rain, I guess. Like a […]
Spiritual Revolutions
There was a time in the world, long before science was even a newborn in diapers, when the earth was considered to be a spiritual space. To organize it, all you had […]