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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: An Offering

"Ceremonies large and small have the power to focus attention to a way of living awake in the world." p.36

Long Pond, in the Saint Regis Canoe Area, Adirondacks

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Yellow-throated Vireo. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.

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Pot-bellied Thrush

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Mount Marcy in the Adirondacks mountain range, New York State, USA. Photo taken from Mount Haystack, looking across Panther Gorge.

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Keywords

Humus: A brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic. (MW)

Mundane: characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary. (MW)

Additional Resources

Vireos and Thrushes Calling

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