i see the ribbons,
the jingles, so many hoops:
our raves come from pasts.
s.e~b, 2026.02.04
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…and this was the inspiration!
all 10 slides:
Here are the slides! You can also click on the image.
Category: symbiotics
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10: 10 days of straight sun
this is simple
as a pluviophile, I admit to loving the sun as well
life is indeed complicated
the last second of sun on january 16
the last second of sun on january 23
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autumn on my mind
The ocean engulfs
Deciduous reverie
In sweater weather(sad how this haiku couldn’t fit: apple cider brewing on the stove for the next 5 months, balcony hot chocolate in quilt watching hummingbirds drinking)
October 27, Dundarave Beach park, colonial west vancouver, unceded and occupied MST lands.
A windy day, with 1m waves and driftwood.
Deciduous trees in green, yellow, orange and red.
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inflection point!
It’s early autumn
Freckles fade now, because fog
Cider sweater stars!s.e~b, 2025.10.04
august 2025, first red leaf 
october 2025 -
Draw the Line
focussing on Palestine, genocide, climate change, citizenship, slavery and indentured work, broligarchs (25% wealth tax/year, dropping to 5% when they’re down to $78m), neocolonialism and landback and reparations, science is real, disability rights, general fascism and actual democracy. The big details are below.
canada on fire, as of this hour
compare today with 1980-2024 above, so filthy
the Nanaimo rally?
- At the start, 80% were over 60 years old, so let’s check in with VIU and k12 students hey? By the end it was up to 1/3 under 60.
- lots of honking and waving
- People in cars with deeply odd political statements [any first year political science student is welcome to deconstruct these gems]:
- You’re all going to hell
- This is Canada, you fucking liberals
- Climate change is a fucking lie
We refuse to stand by while the government and Canada’s richest corporations hoard wealth, gut our public services, fuel climate collapse, attack migrants, exploit Indigenous lands, and prop up a genocide in Palestine.
They think that if they can overwhelm and divide us, we won’t fight back. But climate justice, migrant justice, economic justice, Indigenous rights, and anti-war movements are uniting to prove them wrong.
On Saturday, September 20th, we’re drawing the line – for People. For Peace. For the Planet.
From rallies to strikes, marches to gatherings, this September 20th, communities will mobilize across the country and demand that Prime Minister Carney and the Canadian government pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction- or a just and safe future for all of us. Read our full demands below.
let your eyes soak it in:
this boat, contrasted with the foreground Arbutus tree, is grounded, stuck at a king tide line, feeble and impotent and incapable of change. that’s the c/a/n/a/d/a project. OUR job is to intervene!
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Comet Boy
A light shines on a wall, where there are bumps in the plaster, that combine with the spreading light to look like a young boy is a comet. Is he your inner child?
i love this guy
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, so so grounded
the flower in his hair? Yeah…watch:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMY1bOGyic4 About 20 years ago, he used to hang out at the Sunday night Thundering Word Heard (created by T.Paul Ste. Marie, 1965-2007) Cafe Montmartre poetry cafe on Main Street for a few months, while filming in Vancouver. He was as normal a guy as everyone else there. Normal, interesting, curious about people all around. Total standup guy. I knew him for those months and really enjoyed his company.
The show he was filming was with Luke Perry. Jeremiah.
They have both died now, both wayyyyy too young.Luke Perry met lots of film kids at a high school, where they had a great film program, and was a location for many tv and movie shoots. Including Riverdale.
He had alllll the time in the world for them. Extras, kids with speaking lines, whoever who wanted to talk or ask questions.
Those 2 were amazing.More Malcolm, now he is a part of this legacy:
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the sky, full of stars
ok, not full, not full like an august 2am Egmont Milky Way but Harrison Lake (33km³ lake volume!) will do, on stolen and occupied Stó:lō lands
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a Katrina Davis celebration page
today, she dropped a piece…writing…The Consulate
her narrative range is so expensive
you particularly see it when you go from reading one of her pieces in the substack, to her standup:
she also likes doors a lot, but they’re ephemeral because really they’re just in her instagram stories
then you go back to her substack again, because fuck yeah
she makes the drawings too!
you’ll get it (more) when you read today’s piece
also, #canadaisfake
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how about walking 4km into the ocean
…looking south, east and north
during covid lockdown I spent a lot of time at Iona Beach, especially when the Vancouver beaches were closed
we walked out to the very end of the causeway for the first time this weekend
i always felt like it would take 8000 hours, but it was a blip of time
the ocean–and deep talks–have a way of warping time
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first friday of summer 2025
unceded Squamish lands, colonial dundarave, “west vancouver”
no smoke, no sunburn
the tide is suuuuper low…
And some people teamed up with gravity for some play…
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Things I know: most of us…
- …feel more alone than we are
- …are hubs/locuses of various communities of people who depend on us, usually to degrees where they don’t let us know how critical we are to them
- …are lacking explicit validation and calibration
- …have been struggling more than we let on publicly [and to a large extent with various friend/family groups], with the decade, the pandemic, the fascism, the climate breakdown, idiotically hot summers and fires that will only get worse, the wars and invasions and genocides, the uncertainty of the long-range future, let alone the rest of this decade—in which most of us are taking nothing for granted.
- …don’t know that most of the people in our lives/circles would step up to do a bit, once or sporadically or regularly, or a lot more when we’re thin and lacking capacity, even though we’re reluctant to ask; asking builds richer, thicker networks, brain cells, axon-dendite connections
the stellar sea lions know these things
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sea2sky travels
the trees can be all encompassing
sometimes the Porteau Cove stellar sea lions…are off on a jaunt
the whistler train wreck and grafifiti exhibit!
…and the Cheakamus River races…
apparently we are required to pose?
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ok valley time
let’s go to the Okanagan!
one the way, the Hope Arts Council
get closer?
now we need bannock, don’t panic Kekuki has bannock!
the chocolate cherry version is history, but we do get these, cinnamon raisin and omg apple:
and a 10lb box of the first cherries, from Osoyoos
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hummingbird roommates are the best
one of my roommates is pretty quiet
dude flew up to me outside the sliding door, then went for the juice
didn’t have time to turn off the water filling a pot in the sink, in case he left, so that’s where the ambient waterfall sound comes from, yet not so glam
…yes, of course you want 2 more…