Blog Post #1 

            In Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Kimmerer, the chapter that caught my eye was “The Gift of Strawberries”.  In this chapter the author talks about almost all the gifts that she had given, or had received were homemade because they just gave it more meaning. She says on page 24, “In our family the presents that we gave were almost always homemade. I thought that was the definition of a gift: something you made for someone else.” From this story I can somewhat relate to it because of a tea cup my grandmother made. When she was young she made a clay tea cup and painted it and gave it to her mother. Her mother ended up loving it and as years went on she ended up making more and more. With these she never sold one she always gifted them and told everyone to keep the tea cup and pass it on. Each tea cup was different in its own way whether it was the style of the cup or the paintings that were on them. The cups she made were meant to be special, unique and give a special meaning to whoever would be receiving it.