Ten degrees below freezing is, pshaw, nothing to a dock. It uses its red leaves to make heat from the sun that the rest of us don’t get to feel. Curly dock, […]
Ten Degree Below Zero: Gardening Weather!
U-Boat Mouse
Up periscope! Down periscope! (And that’s all there is to it.)
Every Eye is an Opening
An Island is an opening in the sea, which is an unbroken sightline, your own eye opens and you see, and the eye that grass makes in water admits a needle and […]
Getting Used to Living in Time (The Intimate Lives of Rocks and Grass)
Let’s read a common thing … … in its context. Grass. It’s green and blows in the wind. It bends and sways, this one. It… clumps. West Arrowstone Deer wander through it. […]
Nitrogen Dispersal Protocols for Environmentally Friendly Farming
The farm below solves the problem of nitrogen run-off cleverly. It grows plants that are so nitrogen hungry that they deplete the soil, while any remaining nitrogen is trucked away, to be […]
The Flowing Ones: Withe, Rush and Reed
As we learn again to speak as beings that draw our being from the earth, it’s good to go out in the afternoon light and see what catches us. A feral squiggly […]
Trees Dance, We Dance, the Sun Dances, Too
Quite well, really. Here, have another look. Look how the water weeds hold still in the water and the sky. If we were to say, “oh, that’s a reflection,” we would […]
Consciousness and Environment: Artificial Intelligence Put in Place
Let’s put this simply: Artificial Intelligence is not a new invention. In the concept of a world that achieves action through balance … Ponderosa Pine male and female flowers ready for spring. […]
Artificial Intelligence vs. Consciousness: the B Side of the Dance
Imagine if your mind were one dimensional. Tomato Field But that’s an artifice, a trick, a tease — in short, an illusion. It operates like a mind, although it’s only a trick […]
Artificial Intelligence in the Wetlands
I was talking about Artificial Intelligence last week: here. I will be expanding on my key points this week, but first one more foundational note. AI must have an environment if it […]
