The Second Tuesday Book
Discussion Group reads both fiction and nonfiction titles, and is currently
meeting virtually at 11am on the second Tuesday of every month on Zoom. All are welcome to join the conversation!
The upcoming book selections
will be available for pick up any time after the current month’s discussion,
during service hours at the Port Angeles Main Library. Copies of the book will
be available on a first come, first serve basis.
Library staff and volunteers
will moderate the discussion. Sign in via Zoom link to see other participants,
or call in to join the meeting. No internet required to connect to
the discussion by phone.
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin
Wall Kimmerer
Drawing on her life as an
indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living
beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and
sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear
their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of
Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles
toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological
consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal
relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the
languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of
the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.