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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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There is something immensely comforting in Kimmerer's writing style. She weaves sensory accounts of her own gathering with more abstract ideas. In the great traditions of nature writing, berries pop with colour and you can almost taste the tang (I actually have no idea what a serviceberry taste likes, but I felt like I did).  Reading these passages transports you to a relationship we often forget exists, and that transportation makes the ideas she promotes feel less far away. Kimmerer argues that we can rethink of our economies along Indigenous lines, using frameworks geared towards exchange and reciprocity too replace those which encourage accumulation. I find the articulation of a Potawatomi perspective more compelling than her tentatively suggested next steps, but the book is a welcome balm.

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Gifting, loving, gratitude! Goals for the rest of 2026!

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