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State of the Garden
It is (finally) spring/summer in Cape Breton. Which means adding trees to replace the ones that froze to death: (That doesn’t usually happen.) Prepping the lawn mower: And getting ready for the prom: I know, that’s not strictly gardening… but look what I grew!
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Back on Bike
Time was, I lived in the country and didn’t have a driver’s license. That was a long time ago. Then there was a good length of time that I lived in the city and didn’t have a car. Even that was a long time ago. But it’s written in my bones, this memory of bicycle-as-transport. Not…
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Permaculture and Me
I am pleased to announce that I have just returned from the spectacular Vancouver Island to the also spectacular, if colder, Cape Breton Island, bearing a new Certificate in Permaculture Design: I can’t tell you how excited I am to show you this. Also, isn’t it pretty? A couple of weeks ago, I undertook the…
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The Wonders of Lights
Look what we grew under our grow lights! Grow lights rock!
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Perceiving Deep Order, or “Does God Exist?”
In which I consider the existence and/or non-existence of God/gods through a number of different lenses.
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Identity: Math and Myth
What does it mean to have an identity? If you don’t look too closely, you might think that you can simply adopt a set of labels, slap them on yourself, and go forth into the world as a sequence of nouns. But that’s not how it works in practice. And socially constructed reality is all about…
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Multipotentiality: It’s a Thing
Originally published elsewhere, but since nobody paid me for it, and I didn’t transfer copyright, I disavow the very possibility of being able to plagiarize my own work. Especially since I use Creative Commons licensing. So there. Even though it’s a fairly new word in my world, multipotentiality surrounds me. And although I’ve seen some…
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Problems of Translation
Physicists speak math. When they want to communicate clearly with one another, it looks a lot like this: It’s tight. It’s clear. It’s unambiguous (as long as you know how to read the symbols). It’s also completely unlike how most people communicate. Much of the coursework in physics education programs involves simply learning to read…
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Local “Reality”
Socially constructed reality has a physical existence in the world, but it is self-referential, and does not necessarily reflect any deeper reality. That is to say, it can be internally consistent (coherent) without making reference to the observed larger world in which it resides (correspondence). Yet it also creates the conditions which agents must navigate…
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The Cat and Carnegie Hall
It started with the cat. I was sitting on my couch, petting the cat (who had gracelessly and possessively slid down the back of the couch into my lap). I was enjoying it so much, and I somehow realized that, in this moment, petting this cat, the fact that many other people also enjoy petting…
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My Most Radical Claim
Magic is real. It is not a matter of bending reality to your will; it is a process of aligning your will with reality. The first step in making magic is to find your way down into awareness, the still point at the centre that knows exactly “where you are”. In the same way that…
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Avoiding
I can tell that the post I am working on is important by all the displacement activities I have been undertaking while avoiding it. I have been (in no particular order): making my bed on a regular basis doing my daily meditation sorting through my old things finishing off my projects that have been lying…