What's On Our Minds for February 2, 2023

Here’s what we talked about this morning:

• A book recommendation: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

• Another book recommendation: Dirt Road Revival: How to Rebuild Rural Politics and Why Our Future Depends On It by Chloe Maxim and Canyon Woodward. Jim Heffernan has copies to lend.

• An article in this week’s New Republic on Americans Who Are Fleeing the United States [our copy here].

• A troubling question: what explains the apparent decline of involvement in TillcoDems?

• A suggestion that we (as TillcoDems) become an annual sponsor of the Tillamook County Pioneer, and that we ask TCP to co-sponsor a series of both-sides conversations between people in the county who have opposing views.