If you’re looking for a summer read that will lift your spirits with a hopeful vision for living together, at peace with each other and in tune with nature, check out Robin Kimmerer's lovely, short and profound new book, The Serviceberry.  Then mark your calendars for this September gathering to discuss the book with friends from St. Clare’s, TBE, and beyond.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, the author of Braiding Sweetgrass, created a challenging and thoughtful new book in which she asks what we can learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world about the way our communities are organized and the values upon which they are based.  She states that our economy today is rooted in scarcity, competition and the hoarding of resources and that we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love.  Serviceberries, she explains, “show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”

Bring a snack to share, or just yourself and join us to discuss whether or not Kimmerer’s ideas are realistic and possible and, if so, if we can begin to build an economy of abundance and reciprocity in our relationships with each other here, in our Genesis building, and in the wider community.