Mutual Reciprocity - A Lesson for our Time

In this episode I review two significant - even seminal - books: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Both books convey a message of our need to recover a relationship with Nature by drawing inspiration from how organisms work (in Merlin's case fungi) and to go beyond a reductionist approach outwardly manifest in ecocidal destruction in the name of growth.

Here is what Robin says that we all need to remember in terms of ‘original instructions’: land is a gift not a commodity, we have kinship with all forms of life, flourishing is mutual, everything is relationship, gratitude is the currency of life, offerings are made with reverence, leadership is rooted in service and wisdom, gardening is a partnership, take only what is given, invest in abundance, unlearn hurrying, sit in circles of stillness, listen deeply. So listen and be inspired!