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The Thing About Einstein (and Heisenberg)

Yesterday I spoke about the social nature of the scientific systems of both Darwin and Goethe and how their examples gave us the freedom to choose new paths of science to match our contemporary needs...

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Street Art Masterpieces

This has been a week for talk about food security. As I leave for some of the travels that come upon me from time to time and find their way back into the Okanagan Okanogan, I would like to leave you...

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Christ and the Seagulls

Even in the Disneyfied tourist district of Prague, the honesty of the Czech’s deep experience with history shines through.   Christ, Crowned by Seagull Shit, Charles Bridge, Prague Some other peoples...

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The Human Book

Like all men and women, I am the creation of the intersection of a child with an environment. My environment was an industrial farm in the grassland mountains of the west. At the age of two, I played...

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The Future of Okanagan Okanogan

We have been on a journey together for three-and-a-half years. In that time, I finished up this blog as a book (twice!), but then I was reading up on a lynching in Conconully, Washington in 1891....

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A Robin in His Garden

Crazy! Welcome to the new Okanagan.

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Time Travel Gone Bad

Petrochemical agriculture is a program that uses statistical risk assessment to balance the need of farmers to extract a capital profit out of farming commensurate with the profit to be extracted from...

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What are Those Americans Up to Now?

I don’t know. Look for yourself.   Downtown Kelowna, 2:40 pm. August 20, 2015 I think the Okanagan’s brothers and sisters (nominally Canadian) in Okanogan County (nominally American) need our support...

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Gardening is Just Too Hard

Even if you spend many thousands of dollars to cover most of your whole yard in black plastic tarp and to cover it in river gravel, there is no guarantee of success at beating global warming at its own...

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Whatever Happened to the VW Hippy Van?

Borgarnes, Iceland. If you are over 50, you will find your childhood there. If younger, your pink parents.

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The Canadian Invasion

How do you make a country out of a series of industrial art works? You take the sun and all that it does out in the red medicine willows … … add some myths about the cold North left over from the...

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The Kings and Queens and Queens and Queens and Queens of Vernon Go On Parade

Welcome to the Vernon Winter Carnival. It all started around these parts with a stagecoach some 150 years back. We have evolved since then, I tell ya.   Wonderland, we call it […]

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Home is Not a Place

Summer is over. The seductive music of elsewhere is looking like a confused, lost art form on the streets of Penticton. While on the streets of Okanagan Falls, the retirement homes of […]

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Even If We Don’t Know This Story We Know This Story

We are being written. And we are being read.   You can do it in any order. The order is what we bring to this environmental bonding. This: It can be followed […]

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Magpie’s Thoughts on Land Claims

Middle Class Country: an American pop culture project. Dude Ranch Country: an older American pop culture project.   Spiritual Country: a Chinese-European folk cultural project. Artistic Country: an...

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Mid-Winter Avalanche in Vernon

Snow just doesn’t want to stay put, the sneaky stuff. Even if it is sitting absolutely flat, it wants to get all tipsy.   That’s the way of things. Note the bird […]

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Okanagan Landscaping Style Tips for New Immigrants

Yes, that’s an upside-down Moose Crossing sign and a Telus Smart Security Sign as an oar. Or is that a sail? No, the flag is the sail! Look, when you inherit a […]

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