Reflection: Your Relationships with Non-Humans

Prompts to consider

• Kimmerer proposes replacing 'it' with 'ki' for animate non-human beings. Try describing a walk, a meal, or your immediate environment using 'ki' and 'kin' instead of 'it' and 'things.' What changes, in the description, in your attention, in what seems ethically available?
• The Honorable Harvest requires you to give something in return for what you take from the living world, not as a transaction but as a relational acknowledgment. What do you take from the living world daily? Have you ever thought about what you give in return? What would a practice of reciprocity look like in your specific life?
• Viveiros de Castro says the goal of cross-cultural philosophy is not to translate the Other into the Same but to let the Other's concepts destabilize your own. What concept from indigenous relational ontologies has most destabilized your own assumptions? What did it move?