Joe Raymond
ContributorJoe Raymond is a formal student of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen Buddhism and is an active member of the Mid Hudson Valley Democratic Socialists of America.
Praxis
November 27, 2024
Grief and Gratitude: A Holy Reckoning at the Place where the Stones are Gathered
As a person of mixed white and Indigenous (Taíno) heritage who lives on lands loved long ago and still loved by the Munsee-Lenape peoples along the banks of the Mahicannituck River (now called “Hudson”), I greet these holidays with a mix of reverence and sorrow: reverence for the spirits of Grandmother Summer Wind and Grandfather