Our oldest teachings remind us that failure to show gratitude dishonours the gift and brings serious consequences. If you dishonor the beavers by taking too many, they will leave. If you waste the corn, you‘ll go hungry. The knowing that you already have what you need, is a radical act in an economy that that is always urging us to consume more. Data tells that there is enough food on the planet for all of us. And yet people are starving.
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The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Content Warnings: colonization, classism, racism, animal death, religious bigotry, pandemic, cannibalism
This book explains how we live in an economy consumerism society, and we need to get back to a gift society. I thoroughly enjoyed the author explaining how we reap what we sow; quite literally and the importance of not taking more than we need and to share the abundance.
I loved this book for many reasons. Book 73 of the year. B
pickThis book will change the world.
Perhaps only in small ways, but all positive change has value.
Listening to this audiobook to fulfill the second prompt in the Barnes and Noble adult summer reading program. Plus, while running, I saw fresh berries!
Reading Robin Wall Kimmerer's new book outside in the woods really is a perfect way to spend a Friday afternoon! 🌿☀️
pickBeautiful, hopeful, aspirational novel about the giving economy. We should all read one chapter each day, over and over, until this nightmare is over.
pick“All flourishing is mutual.”
“We don‘t all have to own everything.”
A lovely little book singing the praises of libraries and the “gift economy” with examples from nature. A beautiful volume full of lovely illustrations of cedar waxwings and plants. Very slim, but does its job perfectly. A wonderful reminder to spread the wealth and as always from Kimmerer, keep our natural environment in mind.
pickFrom cover to cover, you have to admire the layout and the illustrations. Subtitled, Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World is the text. The writer acknowledges that we have to have some consumerism to pay the bills, but that if we combine that with a gift economy, we will live in an infinitely better world. The Serviceberry is the example of the gift economy used throughout. Robin Wall Kimmerer is our collective conscience. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance | 
