Chris Keefer

Dear Chris Keefer: An open letter.

I write to you in the greatest appreciation. Now not many folk would appreciate the gift of a 3 year old Caribou hide, smelling of the hunt, wrapped in old grain sacks and plastic, except maybe I and my friend Jon. In the greatest of greats, I happily rub my hands over the now tanned hide, softened and smoked, loosening the shedding winter coat, which emits quite a profuse array of white hairs. But better in the outside world than the inside world of my bed, as I plan on using the hide as a mattress of sorts before eventually crafting winter wear from the fine thick coat of the animal known as the 'bou. so thank you. chrit'ou, for the 'bou. thank you. When you come to visit Cortez, you will surely bed down on this cozy hide.

- Yours in perpetuity, Ben Laurie -



Thank you Jon for the gracious gift of your brains (4 of them!) and your time, and your punk. You are a dear friend (and a deer friend!)

Salmon Farming must be done right

Salmon farming around the world, and on the BC coast.
It can be done in a healthy way, or in ways that don't create large populations of sea lice that kill a large percentage of salmon spawn every year. Academic experts and scientists give the wild stocks 10 years at most, with the current industrial open pen farms.

a haiku that isn't

what i want to say to you is
all life is a celebration of what is
there is no individuality

it is because
what exists, exists,
that I am awed by
creator