From Elder to Ancestor: Nature Kinship for All Seasons of Life – Honoring Our Calling to Tend Community. This chapter presents an intersectionality of the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ph. D. and Odelya Gertel Kraybill, Ph.D. on gratitude.
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Excerpt from my upcoming book, From Elder to Ancestor – Nature Kinship for All Seasons of Life, Chapter Two – Repairing the Human-Nature Relationship
“We’re not supposed to have to hold our space alone. By “space” I mean our energetic hygiene, protection, boundaries, health, balance—all of it. We’re not supposed to have to do it alone. In fact, we don’t do it alone.”
It’s the verbs that count. Not the roles, or the titles, not the nouns. It’s what you do; it’s what we’re doing. What I realized was that ‘elder’ is not a title we aspire to, but a lifelong practice of becoming. It’s not about being an elder, but about eldering well.
From Elder to Ancestor details the messy, devastating, and gorgeous life practice of crafting your own elderhood and becoming a fit Ancestor.
They were shoring up humanity’s long-forgotten planetary frithgard that has existed since the dawn of humanity, and maybe before. They showed us our key resource to tend the broken path. They showed us that we can reengage it and that it is our job to do so. And we have to do it now.