Reading Wednesday

 Just finished: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. What more can I say about this? It's stunning. When I walk through my garden, or I visit the little creek by my house, I have this heightened awareness of my connection with plant life around me. When I clipped some of the lilacs to bring inside, I felt monumentally grateful to the plant, and I thanked it. This is poetry and science and revelation all wrapped up in one book and it blew my little mind.

Currently reading: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling. Look, we're all tired and stressed and overwhelmed and the best thing for that is dunking on libertarians. This is the true story of the libertarians who moved to Grafton, New Hampshire, in the hopes of founding their own community far from the reaches of the gub'mint what was oppressing their civil liberties with repressive measures like...paying taxes. The local bears (animals, not dudes) had other ideas. And because libertarians don't have the sense God gave a toddler, some of them decide to feed the bears and most decide not to call, like, animal control or whatever you do when there are bears (I don't know—I live in a city—but I know not to feed bears). It is hella funny.