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Braiding Dawn With Eve

In "Braiding Sweetgrass" Robin Wall Kimmerer favorably contrasts Skywoman's creation story with Eve's less abundant vocation. In our shared Right hemisphere, Skywoman "created a garden for the wellbeing of all." While in and out of the more extractive Left hemisphere, Eve was banished from her forest garden "and the gates clanged shut behind her." To live as fully as possible, Eve must subdue the wildness "into which she was cast." Meanwhile, Skywoman remains an active matriarchal agent of this casting and forecasting wildness. This feels fine to me as it is. Yet I can also recognize Skywoman as RightBrain Dawn migrating through these four languaged millennia to re-emerge this Eve of Earth's climate pathologies re-approaching reweaving gates bilaterally opening with no more need for violent slamming shut gates designed for polypathic bilateral nudging, Dawn through Eve, forward through back again, surfing Left to Right nondual co-arising. In my version of this Skywoman Dawn meets Eve, Dawn says to Eve "Sister, you got the short end of the stick..." while Eve hears and dreams therapeutic response, resonant resolutions to lead with longer and deeper and wider more inclusive nutritious carrots this seasoning of Earth's dualdark bicameral health re-emerging revolving revolutioning braiding dawn then eve toward dawn's DNA again.

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