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Sunday, February 05, 2023

Some might even call it kindness?

"You Don’t Have to Be Complicit in Our Culture of Destruction" - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/30/magazine/robin-wall-kimmerer-interview.html

"In my kinder moments I try to think about it empathetically and say people with that perspective were not raised with the word 'humility' in their vocabulary as a good thing. 'Humility' in Western culture is to be meek and mild and dispossessed. In Potawatomi ways of thinking, we uphold humility. Edbesendowen is the word that we give for it: somebody who doesn’t think of himself or herself as more important than others. What that means is that everybody is as important as you are, and what that creates is this sense of vitality and community and family. Like, dang, aren’t we lucky to be surrounded by these genius bats and incredible fireflies? Humility that brings that sort of joy and belonging as opposed to submission, that’s what I wish for those folks you’re talking about. " 

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer to David Marchese

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