Recovering Reciprocity

Braiding sweetgrass, deep time and the gift economy

Hello reading companions,

Beginning a year always prompts a unique state of mind, doesn’t it? Like the spine of a new book yet to be bent and folded, or journals waiting to be penned. Familiar, but fresh in perspective.

It happens when indicators of time fade, once work and school stop for summer. Maybe it can be found in the allure of evening lights as t…