By J.D. Whitney
“ALL MY RELATIONS: an English approximation of the Lakota ‘mitakuye oyasin’ – which reminds and teaches that all the creatures and energies on this great Earth have personhood, that everything’s alive and sentient, that ‘human begins and lower forms of life’ is a self-serving distinction subscribed to by only some members of a single species, that ‘deep ecology’ was here long before 1492, that we owe our cousins care and defense – and the courtesy of direct address” (Whitney)
This book continues in the tradition of All My Relations (Many Voices Press, 2010), relating short, poignant–sometimes humorous–interactions with and observations of our cousins, the living beings that surround us.
COUSIN SILVERFISH:
Well –
somebody
has to eat
my words.