Today I begin listening to Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The author reads the book herself, and her voice is warm and kind. The material feels relevant, both to my personal experience in nature on the PCT and to the broader societal context of 2022. She writes about Native American creation stories, and how human behavior changes based on whether you view land as a commodity or a gift, the same as how you might treat socks from a store differently than socks knitted for you by your grandma.

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Sibley "Possibly" Brown. Itinerant teacher, thru-hiker, and wilderness guide. AT NOBO 2018. PCT NOBO 2022?