Braiding: Lessons from Braiding Sweetgrass

Lesson 1: Gratitude… for gifts from the earth; reciprocity… through attention and care for the gift-givers.

Lesson 2: Listening, paying attention… to our fellow Earth dwellers, the birds, insects, animals, trees, wind, water… a democracy of species.

Lesson 3: Animacy… of the wind, asserted by wind chimes… “to be the wind.”

I thank Robin Wall Kimmerer for her beautiful and inspiring book Braiding Sweetgrass. I thank Sara Fraker for her collaborative spirit, wonderful imagination, and immense hard work to bring this project to fruition. This work weaves us together as three strands of a braid.