In the summer of 2014, together with my mother, my siblings, cousins, and other family members, we decided to take a trip to another province, which is 9 hours away from my hometown. We stayed at a cabin surrounded by trees and lots of nature, and near the ocean. One night, we went on a walk by the ocean, and we went in to get our feet wet, we noticed that as we moved, the water would sparkle. My mother then explained that it was called bioluminescent, and I was just so amazed by such beauty. I was so happy, it all felt magical and beautiful and up to this day, I still think about that night. In braiding sweetgrass, the author talks a lot about how nature provides with a lot of things; water, food, trees, and other essential things. And she asks how do we give thanks to these offerings- there so many beautiful things in nature such as bioluminescent in oceans and we can be thankful for such things. I like to believe that when we give back, so does nature, it a reciprocity type of relationship we share with mother nature.
