I was doing what I love best, doodling along and taking photos of the sun splashing around in the wetland that is taking over the walking trail. And suggesting to the new […]
The Snake, the Duck and the Fool
What Canadian Poets and Nature Can Achieve Together With a Little Help From Their Friends
I think we could ask some questions about separation. For instance, this willow, which seeded itself seven years ago, is doing fine high on the grassland… … although all other willows […]
Earth: Wetland of the Solar System
Last night the waterways froze. Today the skies cleared. The sun came out. Yesterday I wrote a piece of history. It was exhausting. Today light says it better. Well, light and water. […]
Forget Heavy Water
Thick water, on the verge of freezing, will do just fine. Hyper-cooled water: an untapped resource.
The Meaning of Life
Imagine you are sitting among your ancestors, and you ask them, “What is the meaning of life?” and they answer with this: What do they mean? Oh, sure, some of them are […]
The Power of Words
If we call this wetland, runoff, mud, rot, ditch or swamp, we are talking about a social relationship to it, and not the thing itself. If we call the beautiful surface of […]
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 […]
Water is the Speech of the Earth
It is commonly said that water reflects light. It’s a great observation. However, water also gives light a place to reveal itself. That is an older observation, but no less lucid. During […]
Fingernails, the Cariboo Way
Five days ago, a billion frogs crawled out of the Big Bar Lake wetland, and sunned on the Otter Marsh trail, while looking for some mud to overwinter. Yes, those are […]
Ending the Fraser War
This is the fifth in a series of archived posts on building a sustainable Okanagan together. This one is about water. And fish. And property rights. Today we’re at Mud Lake. It’s also called Rosemond […]
