For a story that's so sprawling, with characters flying all over the world, this has very little sense of /place/. Which is very fitting, given how tightly knit these Spirit Medicine-enganced groups are: they don't really feel their distance, so why care where exactly you are.

In contrast, how everything smells is important to them, and we get that described in detail.

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"And names, they understood then, were the key. Good names worked like stories: they told everything about those who had them. As long as each member of their family had a name, they each had a story. As long as there was a story, there was a self."

A lot to unpack here: true and chosen names, foreign names forced on places and people by colonizers, forgotten ancient stories and languages and heritage.

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As the Spirit Medicine continues to give me body horror feelings and thus creeps me out, I think about the way it's been talked about as "inoculation" (because the Russian version was a vaccine at first and is administered like smallpox inoculation). Will there be Antivaxxers opposed to it at some point? And will they be crackpots or the only rational ones?

(I'm still suspicious.)

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In our first session, we engaged in a new land-based activity for small groups focused on learning to see 'connectivities' and 'ecological caring' in the local setting (as described in the quotes from SHIMMER by Deborah Bird Rose).

We then explored the video "Climate Justice Is Social Justice" by Earthrise:

➡️ https://youtu.be/jY2eWJ-U_VQ

A more detailed agenda is shown in the Session 1 Slides:

➡️ https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vH7v3Vw-dispDxR-kZ_CcT4l4hzjh8M2/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=107371385648358842300&rtpof=true&sd=true

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