Tracks in the Snow Lyrics

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Cover art for Tracks in the Snow lyrics by Civil Wars, The

The reason you are seeking is causing you to seek -a Buddhist maxim that was used by Cheri Huber as the title of her book.

We each bring a gift to the world, maybe its something positive like gratitude and appreciation, or maybe its a pestilence like Pandora's box.

Maybe our gift will be received with gratitude and appreciation or maybe it will be maligned and beaten into hiding or maybe it will be destroyed.

What matters is that we know we learn what our gift is, and we learn how to be a gift to others. What matters even more is that we learn the only gift we can give is gratitude and appreciation. Everything else is violence.

We walk on the Earth but we must appreciate her and thank her for everything she gives to us, every breath, every drop of water, every morsel of food, every cool breeze on a hot day or warm pool of sunshine on a cold day.

Read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. That's what this song is about.

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