{"id":245,"date":"2016-05-29T17:14:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T22:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennabusse.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:29:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:29:06","slug":"creating-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennabusse.com\/creating-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating in Place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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we know we love nature, do we know that the earth loves us back? Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The lilacs were on the verge of bloom in early May here in Minneapolis, when I traveled five hours north to Grand Marais, a small, artful town hugging the North shore of Lake Superior. Spring was still a promise there as I gathered with nine other women to make art, with the guiding wisdom of Elizabeth Erickson. Her class, “Art as Journey” is offered through the amazing Grand Marais Art Colony,<\/a> housed in a hundred year old church, focusing the creative spirit. Elizabeth, as my mentor through WARM<\/a>, (Women’s Art Resources of MN) 35 years ago, was pivotal in helping me find my creative voice.<\/p>\n
I had just finished reading “Braiding Sweetgrass<\/u>” by Robin Wall Kimmerer<\/a>. She is a biologist and is of the Potowatomi people, so she combines her indigenous knowledge with science. She wonders if we began to call the natural world with a different pronoun, rather than “it” — would we come more into relationship, not to objectify–to see rocks, trees, plants as partners in life, to begin to listen and<\/p>\n