“Work, as it turns out, isn’t always what we think it is. It is gift. It is writing letters and sitting in the sun watching a grasshopper. It is marching in a protest or protesting by drinking morning coffee and being present to one another. In a world of workaholics, work isn’t just about getting things done, but is it’s own kind of being. Just as original man and the animals had to keep watch as the earth formed, work is keeping watch and keeping watch is work because what comes from that work is the fruit of a new thing, a new world, a new beginning. The asking, searching, finding and working — It all leads us here to a new way, to a better way, to a softer way.” —Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native – Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God