Reconciliation Reading Group

June is National Indigenous History Month, a fitting time for our Reconciliation Reading Group to convene. Please join us on Saturday June 27, 1 - 3 PM at Macaulay Church, 23 Church St in Picton.

This month we'll read Leeanne Betasamasoke SImpson's brilliant, Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Time Ahead, a deeply thoughtful work of beauty "considering water in all its forms". For its insights, its synthesis of new and old ways of thinking and being, the book will especially resonate with folks on the path of reconciliation.

Leeanne Betasamasoke Simpson is an award-winning writer, musician, scholar and activist. According to her publisher, Theory of Water seeks to

"discover, understand, and trace the historical and cultural interactions of Indigenous peoples with water in all its forms. On her journey, she reflects on the teachings, traditions, stories, and creative work of others in her community—particularly those of her longtime friend Doug Williams, an Elder whose presence suffuses these pages; reads deeply the words of thinkers from other communities whose writing expands her own; and begins to shape a "Theory of Water" that reimagines relationships among all beings and life-forces.

In this essential and inventive work, Simpson artfully weaves Nishnaabeg stories with her own thought and lived experience—and offers a vision of water as a catalyst for transformation, today and into our shared future."

The book is available as an eBook and audiobook from the PEC Library.

We look forward to seeing you there, and to continuing the learning together. Please feel free to share this invitation.