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The Umwelt of Anting
Recently a rare picture of a crow in a strange spread out and prone position was snapped in the Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary in Victoria, British Columbia by nature photographer Tony Austin. Austin described the...
Boro: The Necessity and the Asymmetry of Resourcefulness
I don’t know about you but I don’t keep my ear to the ground much on high end denim lines or so called “fashion drops” where very limited runs of particular pieces are put online...
Uasau Soap: Weaving The Arctic World Together
Silently, I move towards destiny. Quietly, you Iñupiat, await my destiny. I can hear you as I move, I can see you as I surface. Together we wait, both know what the other thinks. Although...
Just The Ancient Ones We Have Not Come To Know Yet
One of the most popular shows on the cable channel Animal Planet is a wildlife documentary series called “River Monsters.” The show is actually great fun and it’s appeal is easy to understand: go to...
How Little Is Enough?: Building The Life of a Place
I’m suspicious of most Rumi quotes that you find floating around the internet because of this article and ones like it with a serious critique that most English translations take out serious content and context...
The Invasion and The Courtship of the Land
If a doctor says to you “the procedure is non-invasive” there is usually a sigh of relief. The reason for that is that the word “invade” or “invasive” has an aggressive and hostile sense to...
Mugwort: Not Subjugated, Still Dreaming
At the Union Square Farmers Market here in New York City you can buy Mugwort for five bucks a bunch. Which is hilarious because it is a weed and growing everywhere. Medians. Parks. Street corners...
On The Crucible of Dixon Ticonderoga #2
I’ve been a book person my whole life but I never was much of a margin scribbler. Sure, I had used highlighters as a kid and underlined things here and there but I was more...
The Patrimony of Crepissage
It has been told that one of the subtle violences committed by modern missionaries in Central America was to force indigenous people to abandon their traditional homes of bundled grasses skimcoated with mud for cinder...
Jacaranda: On The Mandatory Mess of Beauty
The Jacaranda is concussively beautiful tree. Seeing one or seeing a host of them together gets your eyes drunk with a purple wine that is hard to conceive of. The luminous quality of their purple,...
