"Do you think that the Earth loves you back?" Robin Wall Kimmerer asks this question in her 2013 book, BRAIDING SWEETGRASS.

I paused in my re-read and thought about her question. From a scientific perspective, this might seem like a ridiculous, or pointless, question. But consider the third law of motion, and from there ponder whether there could also be a third law of emotion?...

#pagan #heathen #InterfaithHeathen #Earth #nature #BraidingSweetgrass #Reciprocity #SacredLiving #LawOfEmotion

Just finished reading #BraidingSweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimerer: she's a scientist with Native American ethnicity.

I feel it should be mandatory reading for every politician. For many of us it seems that our politicians are refusing to face up to the reality that we have thrown ourselves off the cliff. The right is just plain evil now. The left will kill us with pragmatism,

It is not realistic - hundreds of millions are going to die horrible deaths - but maybe we could mitigate a little?

Was staying at a friend’s house while they were gone a few weeks ago, and realized how some of the Honorable Harvest (ethical foraging) guidelines aren’t weird or surprising… they’re the same guidelines I use when deciding what to eat when a friend has said “Take whatever you want”:

-Never take the first, never take the last
-Take only what you need
-Never take more than half, leave some for others
-Use it respectfully

#RobinWallKimmerer #Foraging #BraidingSweetgrass

Started this weekend. A gift from my son. Such lovely writing, and such a great edition.

#bookstodon #books #braidingsweetgrass

New book joy! 🧡😊💚
Got some new reading to do!
#Bookstodon #BraidingSweetgrass #NickOfferman

The source of all this is I'd like to make a craft to depict the rules of the honorable harvest, as expressed in Robin Wall Kimmerer's #BraidingSweetgrass.

I can't carve this many letters, it seems wrong to woodburn, and I don't want to cross-stitch it... So! Calligraphy and linocut.

Some go for dinner and a movie - how about dinner and a book? #hongkongchicken #ChinaWok #dinner #ChineseFood #AnnapolisMall #bookstadon #braidingSweetgrass #RobinKimmerer #noodles #foodcourt #lifeisgood #Move #Curio

@theneurotrust for me, it was #HoodFeminism by #MikkiKendal and #BetweenTheWorldAndMe by #TaNahesiCoates. Now branching out to #EcoJustice with #ToBeAWaterProtector by #WinonaLaDuke and #BraidingSweetgrass by #RobinWallKimmerer

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Related to this is a quote from #BraidingSweetgrass by #RobinWallKimmerer: "The problem with these new people is that they don't have both feet on the shore. One is still on the boat. They don't seem to know whether they're staying or not."

These two quotes are on my mind for myself in this coming year. While I am forced to live within a capitalist society, I want to learn to live WITH the land on which I reside. Robin asks" What happens when we truly become native to a place, when we finally make a home? Where are the stories that lead the way? If time does in fact eddy back on itself, maybe the journey of the First Man [Nanabozho] will provide footsteps to guide the journey of the Second."

Anyone know if Robin Wall Kimmerer is on Mastodon?

#books #bookstodon @bookstodon #braidingsweetgrass

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter what were your favorite books you read in 2022 (audiobooks count):

#HoodFeminism by #MikkiKendall

#BraidingSweetgrass by #RobinWallKimmerer

#1619 #BornOnTheWater by #NikoleHannahJones

#PedagogyOfTheOppressed by #PaoloFreire

#AllAboutLove by #BellHooks

I'm also really enjoying #DesignJustice by @schock

@juddlegum @emorwee also I share this w clients and it seems to shift something in them toward ease. #BraidingSweetgrass

“A great longing is
upon us, to live again
in a world made of gifts.”
— #RobinWallKimmerer #BraidingSweetgrass

#haiku #FoundHaiku #gift

“A great longing is
upon us, to live again
in a world made of gifts.”
— #RobinWallKimmerer #BraidingSweetgrass

#haiku #FoundHaiku #gift

@Dr_ClaireH #BraidingSweetgrass nourished my heart and enriched my life. Transformative wisdom for our time.

@bsmall2 I may be duplicating posts but the book about moss is so wonderful I will take that risk. #BraidingSweetgrass is a great book but my favorite by #RobingWallKimmerer is #GatheringMoss partly because it speaks about #OldGrowth and old stable ecosystems in general. Currently trying to save 3,500 acres of #OldGrowth in the #UpperCheatRiver project that has lots of moss but not a lot of sweetgrass :)

Finishing up #BraidingSweetgrass audiobook and listening to the Bryology episode of #Ologies and Robin Wall Kimmerer is so soothing and insightful. Highly recommended if you have any interest in plants or want to expand your knowledge about reciprocation and gratitude within the natural world.

Bedtime listening - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I've heard many good things about this book but am only now getting round to reading it.

#AmReading #BraidingSweetgrass

I #amreading (just finished) #BraidingSweetgrass. Can't recommend highly enough.

One of many interesting ideas:

You can imagine conservation and sustainability as trying to minimize your interference with nature--but perhaps more effective is to build a relationship with nature--a reciprocal relationship is more likely to last than a one sided one.

This book, waoh. I'm still amazed by the beauty it showed me. I never knew you could have such an intense connection to plants. Changed my view completly and I'll have to do some thinking. Can fully recommed it.

#braidingSweetgrass #indigenous