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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Morning Ritual of Thanks

Moss: I wonder if you would say those words for us even if we won't be able to understand them. "I walk up to the hilltop behind my house around the time the sun is coming up and just breathe in the sound of the birds or the wind in the bear trees as it was this morning" He says he's modeled his thanks on an Anishinaabe sunrise ceremony that acknowledges four cardinal directions, including Mother Earth; sends greetings to Mashak Makwe (the great mystery above) Moss: What I like to do is not to ask for anything but just to be grateful for everything that I've been given.

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