Joe Raymond

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

• Gratitude
• Grief
• Indigenous Spirituality