Note on Braiding Sweetgrass via Robin Wall Kimmerer

The essence of the gift is that it creates a set of relationships. The currency of a gift economy is, at its root, reciprocity. In Western thinking, private land is understood to be a “bundle of rights,” whereas in a gift economy property has a “bundle of responsibilities” attached.

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Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass

Our things are gifts and we should value/treat them as such.