Reciprocity is the sense that I’m going to give to you because I know you would do the same for me. No one is just a giver or just a taker; we’re all each at some point in our lives. This also reflects a cyclical dynamic, as opposed to a one-off, one-way relationship. The Native botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer writes in her book Braiding Sweetgrass, “Reciprocity is a matter of keeping the gift in motion through self-perpetuating cycles of giving and receiving…. Through reciprocity the gift is replenished. All of our flourishing is mutual.”5
