Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants — page 5
AN INVITATION ΤΟ REMEMBER We are in the time of the Seventh Fire a time prophesied by my Anishinaabe ancestors A sacred time when our shared remembering transforms the world A dark time and a time filled with light We can choose to live in the dark or in the light We remember the oft used words of resistance They tried to bury us but they didn't know we were seeds I invite you to remember another way of being in the world in kinship To be in a relationship with all living beings our relatives relatives Often in the Western world kinship is thought of only as human relatives but in many Indigenous worldviews kinship includes plants and animals To remember what may have been buried by the noise of the world and by the commodification of nature A remembering of knowing you can be good medicine for the land And I hope a remembering of or an understanding of your gifts something that is unique to you and how to share them to contribute to the well being of the world The land is the real teacher All we need as students of the land is mindfulness mindfulness Paying attention is a form of reciprocity reciprocity with the living world and receiving receiving the teachings with open eyes open mind and an open heart reciprocity a mutual exchange or dependence that benefits both each and all but also includes mutual responsibilities BRAIDING SWEETGRASS FOR YOUNG ADULTS