Ah, what great stuff water is. When the sun mixes with it like spiritual smoke, you can sort of see through it… It looks a bit like a polaroid photograph of the sun, taken over hundreds of millions of years and developed right now …In contemporary fashion, lakes are known as environments. If the earth is viewed with time rather than with space, it’s a source. It’s not just light that sets over time. Life does, too.
Common Loon, Big Bar Lake
And goes back…
Big Bar Lake
If a lake is an environment, let’s think of it as one — not as a home for individuals, but as one unified thing. One living thing.
The Living Lake
It is a definition of life that it is independent and self-replicating. What if that were just an eighteenth century cultural bias, and this were a form (or a stage) of life …