Rate your knowledge of positive interactions between people and land.ģ. From Kimmerer's student survey: Rate your understanding of the negative interactions between humans and the environment. This time, many of them are Kimmerer's own questions that she posits to the reader throughout the book.Ģ. I look forward to hearing how the roller coaster treated you.Īs always, suggested discussion questions are below. (306) By the end of the book, I understood the book's structure to be intentional on the part of the author - to draw you in so that you are moved to act when you hear about brokenness. Kimmerer writes that "Anishinaabe elders like Stewart King remind us to always acknowledge the two faces - the light and the dark side of life - in order to understand ourselves," and she does this in her writing. And so, by the time I got to chapters more explicitly explaining human actions that have thrown life out of balance, I found myself on a roller coaster of heartbreak. Kimmerer details the gifts of the world so vividly that your heart can't help but overflow with gratitude.
Last week, when I encouraged you to try at least a few chapters, I was at the point in the book where I was falling in love with the earth. I'm looking forward to our discussion of Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass. Looking forward to seeing you next Thursday the 19th! At a time when the earth is going to sleep for winter and things feel a little dark in a few ways, I am finding this book uplifting and heartwarming.
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