Julia
This is my book club's 4th Simpson book (we've done Rehearsals for Living, As We Have Always Done, and Noompiming) and I just LOVE IT ALL. I also heard her at book tour stop at Tidelands in Seattle a few weeks ago, and was starstruck. There is so much wisdom in this book, and I think that all of Simpson's writing is love letters. This one is a love letter to water, her mentor & Elder Doug, and to the children of the future. Two quotes I especially love: "Perhaps racial capitalism has destroyed the humility necessary to see that humans are not the conductor of the euphony of life, but instead play the third chair of a bassline instrument? Perhaps world making isn't up to us, at least not on a planetary scale. Perhaps world making is a communal struggle," (p. 34) and "World making requires love, kindness, and care. It requires collectivity and relationality, and it is these practices that generate the knowledge needed to move on to the next step" (p. 41).
This is my book club's 4th Simpson book (we've done Rehearsals for Living, As We Have Always Done, and Noompiming) and I just LOVE IT ALL. I also heard her at book tour stop at Tidelands in Seattle a few weeks ago, and was starstruck. There is so much wisdom in this book, and I think that all of Simpson's writing is love letters. This one is a love letter to water, her mentor & Elder Doug, and to the children of the future. Two quotes I especially love: "Perhaps racial capitalism has destroyed the humility necessary to see that humans are not the conductor of the euphony of life, but instead play the third chair of a bassline instrument? Perhaps world making isn't up to us, at least not on a planetary scale. Perhaps world making is a communal struggle," (p. 34) and "World making requires love, kindness, and care. It requires collectivity and relationality, and it is these practices that generate the knowledge needed to move on to the next step" (p. 41).