+ I wanted to re-share this article I researched for and wrote back in 2017 originally with a few updates since then, and of course warrants a part two with more writing around wild-tending practices and Piñon, fire and Piñon, mining and the plant and its range and more.
Thanks very much for this insightful and informative post Kelly.
So glad to have found your work on here.
Have you read a book called "The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive" by Marten Pritchel ?
I share many excerpts from that book in my post linked below and I also discuss my own pathway to discover my long lost Gaelic indigenous ancestry. I explore the possibility of beginning the long path set down new cultural roots here, with humility, with reverence and respect for the land I move into having a reciprocal relationship with. This is one of my posts that explores the possibility of nurturing a way of living that could germinate into the roots of indigeneity for my descendants some day here on Turtle Island (the place I was born, and the place I love, far from the ancestral homelands of my Gaelic ancestors).
Beautiful. Did you ever read an ecology of a cracker childhood by Janisse Ray? A beautiful memoir about her childhood in South Georgia and the long leaf pine ecosystem.
Thanks very much for this insightful and informative post Kelly.
So glad to have found your work on here.
Have you read a book called "The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive" by Marten Pritchel ?
I share many excerpts from that book in my post linked below and I also discuss my own pathway to discover my long lost Gaelic indigenous ancestry. I explore the possibility of beginning the long path set down new cultural roots here, with humility, with reverence and respect for the land I move into having a reciprocal relationship with. This is one of my posts that explores the possibility of nurturing a way of living that could germinate into the roots of indigeneity for my descendants some day here on Turtle Island (the place I was born, and the place I love, far from the ancestral homelands of my Gaelic ancestors).
https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/germinating-the-ancient-seeds-within
Honored to walk this path along side of you sister.
Beautiful. Did you ever read an ecology of a cracker childhood by Janisse Ray? A beautiful memoir about her childhood in South Georgia and the long leaf pine ecosystem.