Name: NJHN December Book Club: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Start: 2024-12-26T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-26T20:30:00-05:00

Welcome to NJHN's Book Club! Each month on the 4th Thursday at 7:30 pm on Zoom, we'll be reading and discussing books that are of interest to our Humanist group members, which will include a wide variety of topics.

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Our book for November & December is: **Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants** by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013, 408 pages, 16 hrs, 44 mins).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, botanist Robin Wall 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.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In addition to Braiding Sweetgrass, she is the author of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer was named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

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