12/22/2025
Winter is a Gift by Lucia Hawkins
" Collective times through the year often give us the opportunity to reconnect, the antidote to disconnection.
If All Culture comes from Relations with Land, it is always a season to
Remember our Stories, with Elders and Children
Listen, parties and potlucks and politickin’
Rekindle, recipes and rituals and rites of passage
Right Responsibilities, given shape and shared
All Peoples across the World have folk or indigenous customs, informed by thousands of years of food, song, dance, storytelling, rituals, rites of passage, ontology, ethnobotany, relation to place and space, as a direct result of deep, intimate relations with Land. Whenever we recenter respect, reciprocity and responsibility with Land we are returning, reclaiming, repairing. Whenever we give attention, intention, and presence to our interactions with the world around us, we are repairing the pain we all carry, in a modern world constructed upon disconnection. "
so are our teachers, leaders, healing arts practitioners, culture keepers
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