Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, plant ecologist, nature writer, and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the State University of New York's College of Environment and Forestry (SUNY ESF) in Syracuse, New York. In the end it was too casual/slapdash for me, but I enjoyed reading it well enough for the hour or two it demanded of me. I want to read more Spanish-language literaturethough Ive been saying that for years and mostly not doing it. Braiding Sweetgrass Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary In her excellent piece, Rohan really gets the books betwixt and betweenness. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. The joy comes not so much explaining something, and definitely not from justifying my responses to student work, but in attending to another person and thereby allowing them to flourish. Connect with us on social media or view all of our social media content in one place. As children strike from school over climate inaction, amid wider-spread concern about biodiversity loss and species decline, and governments - hell, even Davos - taking the long-term health of the planet a little more seriously, people are looking to Native American and indigenous perspectives to solve environmental and sustainability problems. What problems does Kimmerer identify and what solutions does she For an example of mutual flourishing, Kimmerer considers mycorrhizae, fungal strands that inhabit tree roots. 80 talking about this. In the end, Nicola has to be tricked into accepting her death; the novel lets us ask whether this really is a trick. I cant wait. To become naturalized is to live as if your childrens future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. I feel bad saying it, it is a mark of my privilege and comfort, but 2020 was not the most terrible year of my life. Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. One chapter is devoted to the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, a formal expression of gratitude for the roles played by all living and non-living entities in maintaining a habitable environment. Set as they are amid the Third Reich, all of these novels are about corruption, but the stink is especially pervasive here. It taught me to remember things I didnt know Id forgotten: how the living world is a feast of beauty and colour. Its good for people who dont love Westerns. Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future. Im unconvinced this is an insuperable difference, but its not one Kimmerer resolves, or, as best I can tell, even sees. Best Holocaust books (secondary sources): I was bowled over by Mark Rosemans Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany. Stone cold modern classics: Sybille Bedfords Jigsaw (autofiction before it was a thing, but with the texture of a great realist novel, complete with extraordinary events and powerful mother-daughter dramathis book could easily have won the Booker); Anita Brookners Look at Me (Brookners breakout: like Bowen with clearer syntax and even more damagedand damagingcharacters); William Maxwell, They Came Like Swallows (a sensitive boy, abruptly faced with loss; a loving mother and a distant father; a close community that is more dangerous than it lets on: weve read this story before, but Maxwell makes it fresh and wondering). Ill read more science fiction in 2021, I suspect; it feels vital in a way crime fiction hasnt much, lately. For many, it is a kind of eco-Bible. The people in my reading group pointed out that change has to be local, that we cant be responsible for the big picture, that we need to avoid paralysis. But who is it? Its essays cover all sorts of topics: from reports of maple sugar seasoning (Kimmerer is from upstate New York) to instructions for how to clear a pond of algae to descriptions of her field studies to meditations on lichen. In his telling there was a seemingly ineluctable drive on the part of almost every group to reduce the regions cultural diversity, and that much of the violence required to do so was perpetrated by one neighbour against another. Dan Stones Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction does exactly what the title offers. Crazy, I know, but I immediately thought of this book, which, albeit in a different register and in a different location, is similarly fascinated by the webs that form community, and why we might want to be enmeshed in them. Nicola expresses her own rage, in her case of the dying person when faced with the healthy. I do worry, however, that Im hopelessly behind the curve, clueless about various technologies and best practices; I expect elements of the shift to virtual will persist. In addition to reviews of the things I read, I wrote a couple of personal things last year that Im pleased with: an essay about my paternal grandmother, and another about my love for the NYRB Classics imprint. Ruth Kluger is one of the original badasses. Yet the problem is that the former seems the product of the latter instead of the other way around. Sign up for periodic news updates and event invitations. Inspiring for my work in progress: Daniel Mendelsohns Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate. My Wounded Heart: The Life of Lilli Jahn, 1900 1944 (translated by John Brownjohn) uses those documents to powerful effect, showing how gamely her children fended for themselves and how movingly Jahn, arrested by an official with a grudge, contrary to Nazi law that excepted Jewish parents of non or half-Jewish children from deportation, hid her suffering from them. To speak of Rock or Pine or Maple as we might of Rachel, Leah, and Sarah. Do you like wind? Do we jump right into the old business as usual or will we have learned something?. Lonesome Dove is good for people who love Westerns. Nora, a homesteader in the Arizona Territory whose husband has gone missing when he went in search of a delayed water delivery, teeters on the verge of succumbing to thirst-induced delirium exacerbated by her guilt over the death of a daughter, some years before, from heat exhaustion. Thanks to all my readers. Maybe not earth-shattering, but deeply satisfying: Lissa Evanss V for Victory, Clare Chamberss Small Pleasures, two novels that deserve more readers, especially in the US, where, as far as I know, neither has yet been published. I was moved and delighted and recommend it without reservationcould be just the ticket when youre stuck inside feeling anxious. Robin Wall Kimmerer: Greed Does Not Have to Define Our Relationship to The release of Braiding Sweetgrass a decade later only confirmed their affinity. Language is the dwelling place of ideas that do not exist anywhere else. Robin Wall Kimmerer - Wikipedia I try to go into the woods every day, she says. We dont have to figure out everything by ourselves: there are intelligences other than our own, teachers all around us. I do have a couple of group readings lined up for the first part of the year: Minae Mizumuras A True Novel in February, and L. P. Hartleys Eustace and Hilda trilogy in March. The center has become a vital site of interaction among Indigenous and Western scientists and scholars. She grew up playing in the surrounding countryside. I particularly love the moments, like her description of mast fruiting, when she teaches us about the natural world. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. (Thus it is offensive to keep something you have been given without passing it to others in some form.) The market system artificially creates scarcity by blocking the flow between the source and the consumer. Elsewhere, there are many rewilding projects, community gardens, horticultural and other nature-based therapies and, right now, in the pandemic, a huge surge in a desire to grow things and tune in to the living world again. Frustrating: Carys Davies, West. Those. But Kassabova seems more comfortable when the spotlight is on others, and the people she encounters are fascinatingespecially as there is always the possibility that they might be harmful, or themselves have been so harmed that they cannot help but exert that pain on others. Although the settler in me worries it is grandiose to say so, perhaps my thoughts in this post, however meager, can be taken as my way of giving something back for the gifts Kimmerer has given me. Antigona is Clanchys pseudonym for a Kosovan refugee who became her housekeeper and nanny in the early 2000s. My anxiety about the climate-change-inspired upheavals to come sent me to books, too, more in search of hope than distraction. Ginzburgs abiding concern, like that of any serious writer, has always been with identifying the conflicts within us that keep us from acting decently toward one another. Sarah Gailey, Upright Women Wanted (2020) Are you a coward or are you a librarian? Tell me you dont want to read the book that accompanies this tagline. What I read mostly seemed dull, average. But it is always a space of joy. Were remembering what it would be like to live in a world where there is ecological justice, where other species would look at us and say those are good people, were glad that this species is among us. 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