This month we’ll be at the beautiful campus that housed the Dominican Sisters for so many years. While you might remember it as “Marywood,” we’ll be meeting under the evergreens in "Mary’s Woods and Prairie.” Please join us!
The purpose of these monthly gatherings is to experience a way of acknowledging the Natural World, greeting all living things, and showing gratitude. This practice is encouraged by the Haudenosaunee to be shared widely, as written by John Stokes, that we “share in these words, that our concentrated attention might help us rediscover our balance, respect, and oneness with Nature.”
Monthly meetings are open to everyone of all ages, but they are designed for informal and formal educators to experience the Thanksgiving Address in community so they can reflect and consider how they might use this practice with their students, nature center patrons, etc.
This is an OUTDOOR event. If there happens to be heavy rain, it will be cancelled.
UNIQUE THIS MONTH: Park on the street along Lakeside Drive just north of Fulton. Bring a LAWN CHAIR or BLANKET to sit on.
*After the gathering interested individuals can participate in removing Common Teasel from the prairie. We'll be digging out the root, so anyone who would like to work with this plant in their herbal practice, is welcome to keep it.