Ceremony reawakens knowledge and the land recognizes even a lost person

Evidence

But, still, every morning I watched the coffee disappear into the crumbly brown humus, as if returning to itself. In the same way that the flow of coffee down the rock opened the leaves of the moss, ceremony brought the quiescent back to life, opened my mind and heart to what I knew, but had forgotten. … It may have been a secondhand ceremony, but even through my confusion I recognized that the earth drank it up as if it were right. The land knows you, even when you are lost. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 129

Categorization

• XREF: ‘The land knows you, even when you are lost’ is a hinge concept connecting land-as-agent (Eco-Justice, land rights) to listening-as-method (Soundscape course). — connects to: Knowing a place deeply makes people care for and protect it. — Karla Armbruster, Book Review: LifePlace: Bioregional…, 9; Ceremonial words of thanks make land and people know each other reciprocally — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 122; Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging to family, people, and land — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 133 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Ceremonial words of thanks make land and people know each other reciprocally #corroborates (0.90) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 122
• Ceremony is a vehicle for belonging to family, people, and land #corroborates (0.82) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 133
• Ceremony functions as a deliberate mnemonic device for sustaining the gift ethic #corroborates (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1424
• Gifts returned to the land come back as unexpected reciprocal gifts #corroborates (0.75) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 979
• Formal ceremony can be engineered to re-sanctify everyday sights. #expands (0.72) — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 377
• Broadening participation validates diverse cultural ways of knowing the land #complicates (0.70) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 335
• A place has a soul and an intelligence that seeks to heal itself #expands (0.70) — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 192