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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: Windigo Footprints

"Maybe we’ve all been banished to lonely corners by our obsession with private property. We’ve accepted banishment even from ourselves when we spend our beautiful, utterly singular lives on making more money, to buy more things that feed but never satisfy." p. 308

 Fox footprints in the snow

Philip Halling wikimedia

Vole

Original by Soebe, edited by Fashionslide, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

Keywords

Complicit: helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way (MW)

Concierge:  a usually multilingual hotel staff member who handles luggage and mail, makes reservations, and arranges tours (MW)

Ebodied (Embody) : to represent in human or animal form (MW)

Fallacy: a false or mistaken idea (MW)

Finite:  having definite or definable limits (MW)

Inexorably (Inexorable): ot to be persuaded, moved, or stopped (MW)

Insidious: harmful but enticing (MW)

Maw: the throat, gullet, or jaws especially of a voracious animal (MW)

Ostracisized: to exclude from a group by common consent (MW)

Outsized: a size larger than the standard (MW)

Profligate: wildly extravagant (MW)

Sanctioned: explicit or official approval, permission, or ratification (MW)

Sated (Satiety): the quality or state of being fed or gratified to or beyond capacity (MW)

Squall: a sudden violent wind often with rain or snow (MW)

Thermodynamics: physics that deals with the mechanical action or relations of heat (MW)

Typified (Typify) : to represent in typical fashion : to constitute a typical mark or instance of (MW)

Visage: The face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal (MW)

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