Golden Braid Book Club - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Schedule
Thu Mar 30 2023 at 07:00 pm
Location
151 S 500 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84102-1906, United States | Salt Lake City, UT
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This month we are exploring a book that all of us here at The Braid – and many of you – have loved and gained immense wisdom and peace from, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This is a book that we more than just read - we feel.*While we will mainly reference the page numbers and quotes from the original book, we invite our younger readers who have the Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults version to join as well! The discussions inspired by these teachings can only be enhanced by having it across all generations.
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About the Book:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller. Also named a Best Essay Collection of the Decade by Literary Hub.
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, and as 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 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 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.
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Where is it happening?
151 S 500 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84102-1906, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays: