it arrived! Beauty Full. a work of art. a work of Love. Everything about it….its size, its format, its cover that looks and feels like a table cloth from the past….when those things mattered. She loves. She loves what she is writing about, what she wants to tell us, what she wants us to know.
Grace~ I looked into the book and know that you will treasure every minute with it. Imagining you, cozy in your blankets on a rainy-reading day or night. Enjoy.
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Kimmerer has such a deep sense of connection and reciprocity. I have talked often about sacred ordinaries, how when we stop, stoop, look fully, when we notice the smallest, wondrous things in our world, how they involve so much more than simply standing in the soil, we begin to understand about how so many things are connected as well as ourselves to what we see, smell, touch…
The Guardian recently posted a review of The Serviceberry. Here is an excerpt:
” The Serviceberry is far from inflated or grandiose: it’s a short book expanded from a magazine essay, peppered with simple line drawings by the illustrator John Burgoyne. But in it, Kimmerer issues a far-reaching challenge to look at even the simplest things around us differently. In the bucket of Amelanchier alnifolia berries she picks from her neighbours’ farm, she sees “the Maples who gave their leaves to the soil, the countless invertebrates and microbes who exchanged nutrients and energy to build the humus in which a Serviceberry seed could take root, the Cedar Waxwing who dropped the seed, the sun, the rain, the early spring flies who pollinated the flowers, the farmer who wielded the shovel to tenderly settle the seedlings”.
grace you have always noticed and taken to heart the connections between the earth, what lives among us and ourselves. This book is such a good read for you and for all of us, who each in our own way, walk together with the earth and all who live with us…
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Braiding Sweetgrass is on my book shelf and has been read so very very many times…. it might be Time to read it again…..
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Ah! Wonderful. On my wish list.
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love your “imagine”
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that article…Yes….so Right
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it goes with us. Over and over. becomes a true and deep friend
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was a gift from Lacelady
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