![]() Our task is to look, and to listen, and to live well. ![]() What we do to the Earth and her creatures affects us. The Earth and the whole community of creation live with us in a reciprocal relationship. Like relatives, we are connected to one another whether we like it or not. ![]() In walking toward the harmony way, we honor balance, wholeness, and connection.Ĭreation is always teaching us. Becoming Rooted contains one hundred short meditations, or observances, to help us all become better Earth relatives. Woodley invites us to come away from the American dream-otherwise known as an Indigenous nightmare-and get in touch with the water, land, plants, and creatures around us, with the people who lived on that land for thousands of years prior to Europeans' arrival, and with ourselves. ![]() Randy Woodley takes us by the hand and walks with us for the first one hundred days. Through meditations and ideas for reflection and action, Randy Woodley, an activist, author, scholar, and Cherokee descendant, recognized by the Keetoowah Band, guides us on a one-hundred-day journey to reconnect with the Earth. ' Becoming Rooted offers us a precious way back into the land: a way into restoration and reciprocity, a way into healing ourselves and the land, a way of belonging again, a way of finding out who we are. What does it mean to become rooted in the land? How can we become better relatives to our greatest teacher, the Earth? Becoming Rooted invites us to live out a deeply spiritual relationship with the whole community of creation and with Creator. ![]()
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