Today's random bibliomancy from...what else...Earth Prayers

[willowoak]

Well, today is Thanksgiving here in the US, where we all give thanks that the Native Americans saved the collective asses of the ill-prepared Pilgrims so that said Pilgrims could fulfill their Manifest Destiny of...well killing and enslaving many peoples on their way to conquering *this* land.

This particular piece appealed to me because it is a thanks to all and a promise, in the tradition of a give-away, a practice in a number of Native Nations. :-)

We give-away our thanks to the earth
which gives us our home.
We give-away our thanks to the rivers and lakes
which give-away their water.
We give-away our thanks to the trees
which give-away fruit and nuts.
We give-away our thanks to the wind
which brings rain to water the plants.
We give-away our thanks to the sun
who gives-away warmth and light.
All beings on earth: the trees, the animals, the wind
and all the rivers give-away to one another
so all is in balance.
We give-away our promise to begin to learn
how to stay in balance with all the earth.

--Dolores La Chapelle

and now I am off to roast almonds for the Thanksgiving feast.