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DESCRIPTION:A book discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall-Kimmere
 r will start Wednesday\, September 16 from 6:00-7:30 pm in the downtown Ap
 pleton Library Unconference Room\, first floor\, facilitated by Unity of A
 ppleton EarthCare. This is the first of four sessions to be held monthly.\
 nWe will discuss the first 100 pages. As you read\, please make notations 
 of concepts which stand-out.\nHere is a book review of Braiding Sweetgrass
 :\nAn inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge\, plant science\, and perso
 nal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native Ameri
 can whose previous book\, Gathering Moss\, was awarded the John Burroughs 
 Medal for outstanding nature writing.\nAs a botanist and professor of plan
 t ecology\, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask que
 stions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman\, she l
 earned from elders\, family\, and history that the Potawatomi\, as well as
  a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land\, consider plants an
 d animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass\, Kimmerer bri
 ngs these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see hu
 mans as "the younger brothers of creation.” As she explores these themes
  she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecologica
 l consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our recipr
 ocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the language
 s of other beings\, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving
  gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks\, our care\, an
 d our own gifts in return.
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LOCATION:Appleton Public Library
SUMMARY:Braiding Sweetgrass Book Discussion
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