In her book, Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer describes her lifelong struggle to reconcile scientific and indigenous knowledge. For a time, she describes “teetering along,

i’m sorry i didn’t know when you were sick. i’m sorry i didn’t know the signs and symptoms of illness and

10/17/2022 for me, grief is floating with a current, but not in a carefree, i’ll follow the course of this river kind