The Thule reed teaches in the winter, not in the spring or summer. At that time, it is not fully opened yet. It is the knot below that it is opening […]
The Gifts of Winter
The Message of Water
For two weeks I have been in the land of the water. Dawn at Big Bar Lake Beach I find it amazing that the social country I live in is not built […]
The Path of the Orca and the Moon
Say, perhaps you’ve noticed a relationship between pools of water and pools of stone and without the colonial notion of gravity to steer your understanding of cause and effect into the patterns […]
What the Raven of the Marble Mountains Knows
The eye gives the illusion of bringing distance close, but the raven knows more. Bushwhacking ingrown grasslands gets you nowhere fast. If you had to survive off this land, really survive, you’d light a […]
Gardens of Water
I left the garden today, and all its lettuces, kale, spinach and dill, and went up to the water, where the birches rise out of the cedars and the wild roses. The […]
Sufic Creativity
As part of my ongoing discussion about how different traditions of creativity lead to different human-earth relationships and, ultimately, different earths, I’d like to introduce you to some ideas I learned while […]
Walking in the Snow
When the fog and the frost roll in and the snow crunches underfoot and the air nips at the fingers and the toes freeze in the boots, it’s time to go pruning […]
Three Suns, One Path
So, you know, I’m hanging out with my buddies … … waiting for the apples of springtime, the ones that have bloomed in the basement and which turn to stars when thrown […]
Solstice, and the Wisdom of the Trees
Solstice. The sun is going through a tiny hole into the darkness today and out again tomorrow. It’s not a flower, exactly. It’s just the sun. It has been a beautiful journey […]
Aboriginal Ways of Science
There is a way of organizing thought that uses human observers to rigorously observe the things of the world, deduces from them patterns of behaviour and organization and draws from those further […]
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