Land Justice with Robin Wall Kimmerer

Dear READERS!

Hello!

How are you?

Really.

Pause.

Smile.

Give yourself a hug.

Gaze at something that lands in your body in a grounding way!

Me.----As often I am inspired and desire to share this because---becoming anew, because listening wider than my limited way of knowing, is a big part of Wonder Uprising.

A part of why we wrote these guidebooks is because we want to rewire our brains. We want to break the habits of how we see/be/do in the world and we wanted others to join us.

And there are so many amazing beings asking us to rewire. To see the evolutionary task at hand as an inside job, so to speak.

I would so so love love love if you would devote an hour of time and listen to the latest talk on youtube by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

My sister Joanne sent it to me the other day! (thank you!) For me, there is so so much wisdom tumbling out of this human!

If you've heard her before much of this isn't brand new and I feel she embodies this wisdom deeper and deeper every time she shares. (so give it a go!)

As I listened

I felt the trees outside my window

tilting their crowns

to hear

and the smudgy glass windows

asking to be opened

to let the waft of words

drift towards.

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One of the most difficult tasks ahead,

for humans, from my perspective of course,

is moving us from the most important,

most knowledgeable living being, to one of many,

to consider being little brother and little sister to the ones who know more.

I listened to Robin just after ambling a local river trail with many freshly cut trees, many ancient healthy 200 year old Ponderosas, signs saying Healthy Forest Project and Removing FUEL.

Some wonderings to consider after listening

Where does ki/ke kin come into play?

How does fuel/defensible space etc...potentially and unconsciously enemize other beings?

What would it look like to honor trees, to celebrate?

How would it feel to create ceremony and memorials when we choose to kill other living beings?

What happens to the mycelium and insects underground when trees are cut and removed?

How do we sit within and listen to---the web of life we/humans are a small part of?

Lastly, if you would, carry the below quote into your listening and reflecting---Who might we become if we turned towards these concepts?

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“I’d like you to make notes, think slowly,

let things land and churn,

be slow to swallow,

use some of these insights

to interrogate your perspectives,

seek out differences and patterns

instead of critique.” ---Bayo Akomolafe

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for reading this. For watching or listening to Robin.

Please forward to anyone you feel might listen.

Appreciate you soooooo much!!

Have a taste or a big meal of gratitude today for all of our kin!!