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Environmental Renewal Through the Work of Dr. John Dee
Imagine, hiding in the sun itself. Choke Cherries and Their Guardian Or in a cloud. Or a bit of both. (Note how the bird’s eye sees out of his hidey hole in the sky. Some of that sun and some of that...
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The Poetry and Science of Flight
I am trying to learn how to read. So, I’m standing in the middle of the road hoping no car will come. I’m doing this because it’s time for the last birds to skedaddle. They get ready for the big push...
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God and Evolution in the Age of Information
I’ve been showing you patterns in the leaves, and patterns of birds. Here they are together. One version of the theory of evolution holds that it’s all survival of the fittest, that there are predator...
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Seeing in the Dark
The poet Goethe argued that colour is formed by the boundaries between light and darkness. He argued that it was possible to see in the dark — that colour (or light) were not requirements for “seeing”....
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Evolution and Randomness
Ah, evolution. Great Blue Heron on His Barn Roof, Watching for Mice Below (Click.) Is evolution a random process? Is life itself random? Did life arise on earth randomly and then develop randomly?...
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Choosing to Be Human
“Gravity” is commonly understood as the force, devolved from subatomic bonds extended during the Big Bang, that brings things down. This vineyard hill above my house, for instance. The same force...
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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...
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What Would Our Sons and Daughters Want for a World?
I mentioned yesterday that it is the genius of science that it separates the components of a scene in order to be able to say what it does know and what it does not. The construction of a new...
View ArticleIndian Reserves and Language
Let’s be humble for a moment. There is a global culture today, and it is not humble. It looks out through human actors, apprehends the image below through their complex biological organs […]
View ArticlePan Shows Up in the North Okanagan
It is his sudden appearance and his stillness that haunt. Well, and all those arms. It’s like a 6-dimensional film. Every day he puts on a different face. Speech can be like […]
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