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Wow! I knew there were slaves in New Hampshire in the seacoast region in the early years and that slaves were kept at Dartmouth, but I had no idea the grip slavery had statewide. I learned this morning that my own home town had one slave at the time of the 1790 census. That was gut-wrenching to learn after living there for twenty years.

Intro
“What does it take to abandon what does not work and take the risk of uncertainty? We will need courage; will need each other’s hands to hold and faith in the keys to catch us. It would help to sing. The landing might not be soft, but land holds money medicines. Propelled by love, ready to work, we can jump tour, the world we want to go create, with pockets, full of seeds. And rhizomes.” (Page XVII”

Introduction (continued)
“Skywoman’s descendants are not women who would step away from the edge, if it meant the protection of life.” (Page XVI)

Introduction
“She is a woman with a duty to safeguard life. Just as women have done throughout our painful history, Carey and life through times of starvation and disease, on the long walks up removal, hiding children from the boarding schools, and embracing the ones who came back, fighting, pipelines, protecting water, saving the seeds, learning the language, holding the ceremonies, honoring the Earth…” (XVI)

Introduction (continued)
“I hoped always to inspire an authentic revitalization of relationship with the land, not by borrowing it from someone else, but finding your roots, and remembering how to grow your own.” (Page XII)

“In every version I’ve ever heard, Skywoman was an accidental, and possibly unwilling traveler to the next world, like a seed on the wind.”

Introduction
“Sometimes I wish I could photosynthesize so that just by being, just by shimmering at the meadow’s edge or floating lazily on a pond, I could be doing the work of the world while standing silent in the sun.” (Page X)

“One day, after I’m a daffodil, I will be able to photosynthesize. It’s something to look forward too.” (Page XI)