Braiding Sweetgrass and the Honorable Harvest
About a month ago several people whom I know from different areas of my life, without collusion or coordination as far as I know, told me that I needed to read Braiding Sweetgrass. My track record with books others tell me I must read is a little spotty. I don't always like them which makes for awkward conversation. Them: "How did you like that book that was terribly meaningful to me?" Me: "Oh, uhm... it wasn't bad." Our library had an e-version of Braiding Sweetgrass so I put myself on a wait list. I was hesitant to spend money on a book I was almost certain I wouldn't like since it would be too woo-woo and possibly cringey. Well. Every once in a while a book comes along at the exactly the right moment and influences your thinking to a profound degree. Braiding Sweetgrass is for me one such book, taking me further along a road I began when I read Song of Trees by David George Haskell and before that Other Minds by Peter Godfrey Smith. Th