@unchartedworlds excellent point about the #Oligarchs! Thank you. Also, i do try to make up for things, my own kind of “offsetting”. A few months ago i flew to my parents Golden Wedding (a weekend in btw two work weeks, couldn’t take longer holiday) but then gave a speech about the immense privilege, luck and #Gratitude of family, friends, large parties, citing #NutmegsCurse and #BraidingSweetgrass and many people read those afterwards 😊

#RobinWallKimmerer is a #Bryologist & enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

She writes books joining new scientific & ancient indigenous knowledge including #GatheringMoss & #BraidingSweetGrass.

Listen her podcast & learn about moss, science, beauty, broader notions of sustainability, & the secret to happiness!
🌽🫘🍓

https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-wall-kimmerer-the-intelligence-of-plants-2022/

#Mosstodon #Nature #NaturePhotography #OnBeingWithKristaTippett #RhodyGargen

I've just finished reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It was very deep, and thought provoking. It was quite a slow read, due to the subject matter, and also the small type face 🤣

I could only read a chapter a
night.

Next up is The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune.
#books #bookstodon #amreading #braidingsweetgrass

What a book!!!
Cannot recommend it enough #AllOurRelations by #WinonaLaduke. It was suggested to me once I read equally powerful, #BraidingSweetgrass. Both books tear up 💔 and build something in you.
#Indigenous #justice #colonialism #neocolonialsim #imperialism #decoloniality #Landback

Just finished listening to the audiobook of "Braiding Sweetgrass" narrated by author Robin Wall Kimmerer. I transported by the tale about our Earth told by a wise, warm and interesting friend. I did not want my reading journey to end!!! Luckily, it doesn't have to - I can live what I heard. Thank you.

#braidingsweetgrass #bookstadon

Listen to “Ancient Time: Moss, Climate and Deep Time” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Author of #BraidingSweetGrass and #GatheringMoss, she is also gifted with a soothing voice that calms like lemon balm for the soul.

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/ancient-green/

And checkout Emergence Magazine now on Mastodon! @emergencemagazine

#RobinWallKimmerer #BraidingSweetGrass #GatheringMoss #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe #Moss #DeepTime #Climate

One thing I’ve come across whilst reading #BraidingSweetgrass is that indigenous languages have no gendered forms but instead everything is imbued with the animacy of becoming active through a verb and everything therefore is a being, engaging in activity and relationship to everything around it, and I’m floored by the memory of what one of my professors taught me in grad school coming back to me: Mitakuye Oyasin.

Dipping back into Kimmerer, Berger, Snyder and Haraway for a thing I'm writing.
I find it weird when people DON'T see the world as alive, as a subject, not an object.
Were you raised to see the world around you as alive, and important, or as something external over which you should impose your will?
#braidingsweetgrass #garysnyder #donnaharaway #johnberger

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Began reading this most amazing book a few nights ago. I'm into the third section of the first chapter, and finding it beautifully written, insightful and full of #Indigenous wisdom with regard to our relationships and connectedness to one another and the earth. Highly recommend. #braidingsweetgrass #RobinWallKimmerer #botany #naturalscience #nature #science #nonfiction #book

Except from Returning the Gift, by Robin Wall Kimmerer: https://humansandnature.org/earth-ethic-robin-kimmerer/

"Gratitude may seem like weak tea given the desperate challenges that lie before us, but it is powerful medicine, much more than a simple thank you. Giving thanks implies recognition not only of the gift, but of the giver.... Gratitude propels the recognition of the personhood of all beings and challenges the fallacy of human exceptionalism."

#thanksgving #gratitude #reciprocity #BraidingSweetgrass #books #StetWalk

thinkin’ about about this #indigenous (specifically #haudenosaunee) thanksgiving address for tomorrow. i always reread it on #thanksgiving day. first saw it in #braidingSweetgrass which is an amazing book—and one i really should have a hard copy of.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2018/11/22/haudenosaunee-thanksgiving-address/

@ossifog It's also of special note to me as I've been writing my #witchpunk book. At the start I asked my witchy friend for a magic book to do some research and she refused and told me to find one for myself.

I think I read the free samples of at least half a dozen and none of them seemed to fit. But #BraidingSweetgrass really spoke to me. It's not a witch book, but it is a lot about the inherent energy of living things. I think it might be that book for me.

@sphakos Those are the only two I have read. Not sure if there are more. #BraidingSweetgrass was transformative for me as well. The chapter about the wendigo lives with me constantly.

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Opening my Keynote-app on the phone, I typed it, while thinking

‘Yes.
All flourishing IS mutual.
It cannot be done in solitude, because then it’s not flourishing.
Interconnection is a feature of Life on earth — and Death! The Life/Death/Life-cycle would break without one or the other — and without it, flourishing isn’t possible.’

Together in relationship it is!

#book #bookRecommendations #BraidingSweetgrass #reflection #quote #qotd

> Industrial forestry, resource extraction, and other aspects of human sprawl are like salmonberry thickets—swallowing up land, reducing biodiversity, and simplifying ecosystems at the demand of societies always bent on having more. In five hundred years we exterminated old-growth cultures and old-growth ecosystems, replacing them with opportunistic culture
-- #RobinWallKimmerer #BraidingSweetgrass #OldGrowth vs. #PioneerSpecies
...compare with #kropotkin via #gould
https://suha.ng/zettelkasten/202201021449-old-growth-cultures.html