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“The question that's often asked is how do we take gift economies from individual relationships and scale them up? I have to say that I'm not sure that's the right question. Why does everything have to be expanded? It is the small scale and context that make the flow of gifts meaningful.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World