![]() ![]() ‘Today we have gathered and when we look upon the faces around us we see that the cycles of life continue. The gratitude is directed straight to the ones who share their gifts with the world. This ancient order of protocol sets gratitude as the highest priority. “The Onondaga Nation schools recite the Thanksgiving Address, a river of words as old as the people themselves, known in Onondaga language as the Words That Come Before All Else. No one would doubt that I love my children, and even a quantitative social psychologist would find no fault with my list of loving behaviors: nurturing health and well-being protection from harm encouraging individual growth and development desire to be together generous sharing of resources working together for a common goal celebration of shared values interdependence sacrifice by one for the other creation of beauty If we observed these behaviors between humans, we would say, “She loves that person.” You might also observe these actions between a person and a bit of carefully tended ground and say, “She loves that garden.” Why then, seeing this list, would you not make the leap to say that the garden loves her back?”īraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants “Where’s the evidence? What are the key elements for detecting loving behavior?” That’s easy. “Well, how would you know it’s love and not just good soil?” she asks. That’s hard for scientists, so fully brainwashed by Cartesian dualism, to grasp. ![]() “Gardens are simultaneously a material and a spiritual undertaking. ![]()
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