Thanks so much. Yes, I was listening to the audio version of 'Braiding Sweatgrass' and she has a lovely chapter on what gifts should mean and did mean, and how they are different now. It's why I've always been so resentful of Christmas - it wasn't that I was forced to GIVE gifts, but that the giving was dependent on how much you spent and people telling you what to buy! And the incredible amount of waste and expense.
Abundance comes from sharing and giving, not receiving.
That is sooo true. I do hope that people like you and me can do what we can to change the culture!
I may not be much focused/concerned about environmental crisis. Maybe the place where I live has enough greenery and trees that I don't think it is a concern.
We never do care until it happens to us! But if we look at the entire world - the deforestation in rainforest, the lack of fish in the oceans, natural disasters etc - we are part of that bigger picture too, every one of us. I remember the president of the Maldives crying that the west needed to be accountable for the fact that his country is disappearing under the sea.
Thanks for your beautiful comment!
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