The Long Walk
Gather the Women has created The Long Walk, so named because, throughout our days, weeks, months, and years of sitting in Sacred Circle, we become part of the Long Walk of our lives together as we continue to walk each other Home with deep listening, understanding, non-judgment, and love. The Long Walk has a predetermined topic each week and participants can share on the topic through their own personal stories, insights, and self-discoveries. These will be stories shared at the heart level, not head teachings.
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The Next Long Walk
Topic: A Gift Economy
Host: Suzan N.
Date: Sunday, December 28, 2025
Times: 4pm (PT) | 5pm (MT) | 6pm (CT) | 7pm (ET)
In her most recent book, The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer uses the serviceberry as an example of a gift economy. This beautiful bush blooms in spring, bringing with it lovely flowers and tasty berries which are freely offered to us humans. Nature’s stories of providing sustenance are Her gifts to us, yet we’ve commodified our natural resources such as water, air, and land, in such a way that they are monetized and become objectified. In this circle, we’ll talk about the gift economy of nature and how we can and do shift our focus to be part of it, not just at Christmas.
Considerations:
Think of a gift economy you participate in throughout the year. What is your gift to that economy and how are you changed by the exchange?
Can you imagine an economy that emulates the flow of Mother Earth? How might that work?