The meeting will be held on TUESDAY, May 4th at 6:00 pm via Zoom. The book for our May meeting is Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer .

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As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

We will continue to meet via Zoom until the Library is able to restore programming in the branches. You can get the book curbside at the Gig Harbor Library or via Libby, the free electronic book and audiobook source offered by Pierce County.

We'll send out the Zoom meeting access information the weekend before the meeting. 

Pour yourself a glass of wine, a beer or a cup of tea and join in the fun.

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This event is FREE and open to the public. For questions, please contact Cindy Hackett at cynthia.hale.hackett@gmail.com