Tag: Complexity

  • Pattern

    Pattern

    Donk,DinkBamboo chimes in a gentle breezeTing, tangSteel chimes a two tone melody.A rose-breasted hummingbird buzzes byFeeder-boundThe house wren insists the woodstack is hersCrickets channeling the background cosmic radiationA persistent click-drone as old as the universe.A phalanx of Canada geese heading south trumpet their exitThe doppler groan of passing cars on Old Church and Mount PleasantThe…

  • Trusting the Process and letting things Emerge in the Dog Days of Summer

    Magpie and I have just returned from the vet in Cheltenham, Ontario, to see how his his foot is getting on after a run-in with a car in the drive way. There remains only a quarter-moon sliver of rawness now where before there was what seemed to be a Grand Canyon of spilt flesh and…

  • The Certainty Merchants

    In the past year or so I have been undergoing a transition in my thinking and practice away from conservation ecology into a more socio-ecological position. there are no wildlife problems after all,only human ones right? Ive always been interested in systems thinking and complexity ever since reading Fritjof Kapra’s Web of Life, but I’m…