The Geecologist

Landmarks

Landmarks

Mar 28, 2020 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

Although I knew Gaelic to be richly responsive to the sites in which it was spoken, it was my guess that other tongues in these islands also possessed wealths of words for features of place – words that together constituted a vast vanished, or vanishing, language for...
The Overstory

The Overstory

Dec 21, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

The things she catches Doug-firs doing, over the course of these years, fill her with joy. When the lateral roots of two Douglas-firs run into each other underground, they fuse. Through those self-grafted knots, the two trees join their vascular systems together and...
The Overstory

The Overstory

Nov 23, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

A five year-old in 1968 paints a picture. What’s in it? First, a mother, giver of paper and paints, saying Make me something beautiful. Then a house with a door floating in the air, and a chimney with curls of spiraling smoke. Then four Appich children in...
Silence

Silence

Nov 10, 2018 | Campaigns, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

IndeterminacyArtists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression “free as a bird,” Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, “You know? They’re not free:...
What killed the Neanderthals?

What killed the Neanderthals?

Dec 30, 2014 | Featured, Geekery, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Credits to Luke Mitchell, published as Our Earth Has Endured Five Mass Extinctions: Here Comes The Sixth in Adbusters. In 1739, Captain Charles Le Moyne was marching four hundred French and Indian troops down the Ohio River when he came across a sulphurous marsh...