[All] FW: Braiding Sweetgrass Book Club, Thurs Nov 30, 12p PT

Tue Nov 14 10:36:02 PST 2023

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From: "Pistone, Kristina {she, her} (ARC-SGE)[Bay Area Environmental Research Institute]" <kristina.pistone at nasa.gov>
Date: Monday, November 13, 2023 at 4:58 PM
To: arc-dl-scishare <arc-dl-scishare at mail.nasa.gov>
Subject: Braiding Sweetgrass Book Club, Thurs Nov 30, 12p PT

Hey all,

Did you know ARC has a DE&I book club? Yeah, me neither! Except now I do know, and somehow I ended up picking the November book which is Braiding Sweetgrass. Discussion at Thursday, November 30, 2023 12:00-13:00 (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).  Wanted to share with the earth science folks because it seemed pretty up our alley, thematically.  Also, it’s just a joy to read and/or listen to—I’m not usually an audiobook person but she reads her own book and it’s wonderful. Like I said, I don’t think this book club is widely advertised, but I would love to chat with other people about it whether you read it when it was popular 3 years ago, or just read the first few chapters over the holiday.

Didn’t want to clog everyone’s outlook calendars with another invite, but I’m happy to forward the proper invite if you’re interested. Just let me know.

Description pasted below.

Thanks,
Kristina

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When: Thursday, November 30, 2023 12:00-13:00 (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).
For the Nov/Dec 2023 book club, which includes Native American Heritage Month, I’d like to discuss Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It’s a beautiful set of essays blending a scientific worldview with an indigenous worldview, the latter of which has too often been drowned out by the former and by our colonizer-centric society in general.

The link: https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmilkweed.org%2Fbook%2Fbraiding-sweetgrass&data=05%7C01%7Call%40espo.nasa.gov%7C61a208ab9e494b42fe2d08dbe54090da%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638355837700999663%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9k8yxlRnUmpd0zzLQFPrjmoXcJzT1fDTijc7F9zVkNs%3D&reserved=0<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmilkweed.org%2Fbook%2Fbraiding-sweetgrass&data=05%7C01%7Call%40espo.nasa.gov%7C61a208ab9e494b42fe2d08dbe54090da%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638355837700999663%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9k8yxlRnUmpd0zzLQFPrjmoXcJzT1fDTijc7F9zVkNs%3D&reserved=0> (or your local library, probably; Sunnyvale has a hard copy and SFPL, SJPL, and Santa Clara all have it on Libby and audiobook too)

The blurb:
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, a mother, and 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 a rich braid of 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 a wider 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.

Further reading (she got a MacArthur grant): https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbooks%2F2022%2F10%2F12%2Fbraiding-sweetgrass-robin-wall-kimmerer%2F&data=05%7C01%7Call%40espo.nasa.gov%7C61a208ab9e494b42fe2d08dbe54090da%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638355837701155934%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sujoblo4ABGFQePE6ytAOMXE9fb0%2Fyxc4ynHTvailO8%3D&reserved=0<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fbooks%2F2022%2F10%2F12%2Fbraiding-sweetgrass-robin-wall-kimmerer%2F&data=05%7C01%7Call%40espo.nasa.gov%7C61a208ab9e494b42fe2d08dbe54090da%7C7005d45845be48ae8140d43da96dd17b%7C0%7C0%7C638355837701155934%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=sujoblo4ABGFQePE6ytAOMXE9fb0%2Fyxc4ynHTvailO8%3D&reserved=0>

From the above article, re: JEDI: “Kimmerer feels the weight of her family’s legacy, the imperative to honor the stories. At age 9, her father’s father was sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which Jim Thorpe also attended, less than 30 miles from where she sits. It was one of many schools intended to force the assimilation of its Native students. Kimmerer speaks of her “deep responsibility to our knowledge,” Indigenous knowledge, “that they tried to eradicate from our people,” she says. “If the world is listening, I have a responsibility to speak.””

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Kristina Pistone, PhD
Research Scientist
Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
NASA Ames Research Center
Mail Stop 232-12
Moffett Field, CA 94035
650-604-3386
kristina.pistone at nasa.gov<mailto:kristina.pistone at nasa.gov>
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