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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: Defeating Windigo

"Scarcity and plenty are as much qualities of the mind and spirit as they are of the economy. Gratitude plants the seed for abundance." p. 376

Buckthorn

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Bloodroot

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Hepatica

 wikimedia Archenzo Moggio (Lecco) Italy 03 April 2005 CC BY-SA 3.0

Keywords

Affluent: having an abundance of goods or riches (MW)

Bramble: a rough prickly shrub or vine (MW)

Carrion: the flesh of dead animals

Imperative: not to be avoided or evaded (MW)

Pariah: someone or something that is despised or rejected (MW)

Proposition: something offered for consideration or acceptance (MW)

Regenerative (Regenerate): to bring back to a former condition or vigor (MW)

Unequivocally (Unequivocal): leaving no doubt CLEAR, UNAMBIGUOUS (MW)

Zenith: culminating point (MW)

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