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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: The Consolation of Water Lilies

"We are showered every day with gifts, but they are not meant for us to keep. Their life is in their movement, the inhale and the exhale of our shared breath. Our work and our joy is to pass along the gift and to trust that what we put out into the universe will always come back." p. 104

Yellow Pond Lily

Joshua Mayer from Madison, WI, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Wild Calla

Laval University, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

A pool with water lily leaves

Ranjithsiji, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Agate Beach, Patrick's Point State Park

Lee Coursey Flickr

 

 

 

Black-capped Chickadee

Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Red-Winged Blackbird

Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Keywords

Anaeorobic: living, active, occurring, or existing in the absence of free oxygen (MW)

Bow wave: the wave on either side of the bow of a ship under way (MW)

Convoluted:  Involved, intricate  (MW)

Conduit: a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed (MW)

Imperative: not to be avoided or evaded (MW)

Lapis: The deep blue colour of lapis lazuli (Collins) 

       [lapis lazuli: a semiprecious stone that is usually rich azure blue and is essentially a complex silicate often with spangles of pyrites (MW)]

Petiole: a slender stem that supports the blade of a foliage leaf (MW)

Traverse: to move or pass along or through (MW)

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