Writing can be a powerful tool for reflection, healing, and understanding. Consider documenting your thoughts, experiences, or simply observing the growth of the plants. If you’re unsure where to begin, these prompts can offer a starting point.
- How can plant medicines help us reconnect with community or identity?
- What does environmental stewardship look like in an urban community like ours?
- How can small, everyday choices reflect environmental responsibility?
- What role do you think medicine plays in Indigenous resistance and resilience?
- How do you think medicines carry ancestral memory or knowledge?
- If the Don River or one of its tributaries could speak, what might it say?
- Describe a change you’ve witnessed in your local environment over time.
- Write a thank-you note to one of the plant medicines.
- Describe what “walking gently on the land” looks like in practice.
- How do you think climate change is affecting the land and seasons here?
- How do medicine gardens remind us to slow down and listen?
- What do you hope future generations will inherit from the way we care for the earth today?
You’re invited to contribute your journal entries, photos, notes, and sketches. Share them with us at info@miskwaadesi.com and we’ll add them to a collaborative website where everyone can explore and enjoy each other’s reflections.
