It’s one thing to consider our relationship with the land—our kinship to it—as individuals. We read books like Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, which is a lovely book and one you should definitely read. Reading books in solitude may alter our individual relationship with the world around us. But like our histories, our lives do not unfold in isolation. We exist collectively: as neighbors and community groups, as workplaces and sports teams, as book groups and families. We exist in overlapping relationships with faith communities and cultural groups: places and people with whom we
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