Book Club - Month One. January 24th 6:30 - 8:30pm

In month one we will be diving into the beginning Of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - preface to Planting Sweetgrass. Pages 1 to 59 

The intention for the book club is to foster intentional conversation, musings, and gathering in community. Braiding Sweetgrass is such a nutrient rich read - and slowly digesting the pages allows for deeper integration. 

about the book: 

“As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.”

Investment: $10 

capped at 12 folks to keep the space intentional and cozy. Hot herbal tea, ritual goods, and light snacks will be available 

- Please bring a mug from home for tea, a journal, and something cozy to sit on