Book Club -The Serviceberry: Abundance & Reciprocity in the Natural World
About this Event
Join us for our bi-monthly Book Club! Tuesday, July 21st, from 5:45- 7:30.
You are welcome to bring your dinner or snacks to the book club; feel free to bring a friend as well!
The bar is open during book club with both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
This is a free event! Everyone is welcome! The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, author, and John Burgoyne, Illustrator
As Indigenous scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests Serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the Serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of interconnectedness and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, rather than accumulation, where wealth and security come from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”
As Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is “a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.” The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times and a reminder that “Hoarding won’t save us. . . . All flourishing is mutual.”
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