The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.