<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">"...including the Nimiipuu on whose land I live illegally."</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Exactly.  Thanks!  I must visit the Old Arboretum tree mentioned in this article, the existence of which I was unaware..</span></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><a href="https://dnews.com/opinion/his-view-celebrating-celtic-religion-on-st-patty-s-day/article_fee2b842-9312-5dfb-99e1-7355bff077ec.html">https://dnews.com/opinion/his-view-celebrating-celtic-religion-on-st-patty-s-day/article_fee2b842-9312-5dfb-99e1-7355bff077ec.html</a><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div style=""><h1 class="gmail-headline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 100px 0px 0px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><font size="2">His View: Celebrating Celtic religion on St. Patty’s Day</font></span></h1><h1 class="gmail-headline" style="font-size:42px;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 100px 0px 0px;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><li style="font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px"><span class="gmail-tnt-byline" style="box-sizing:border-box">Nick Gier The Palouse Pundit</span></li><span style="font-size:14px"> </span><li class="gmail-hidden-print" style="font-size:14px;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px">Mar 10, 2022 <span class="gmail-text-muted gmail-tnt-update-old" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(48,71,121)">Updated </span>Mar 10, 2022</li></h1></div><div style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">An excerpt from the column indicated above:</span></div><div style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><span style="font-size:16px">My favorite campus walk is to go to the Old Arboretum and visit the Mother Tree, a giant Sequoia planted in 1916. I stretch my arms around her as far as they can go, and I chant, not knowing anything in Celtic, a Hindu mantra to her.</span></span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px">I join O’Donohue, Berry, and many others in embracing the ancient religion of the Celts, and all other indigenous peoples, including the Nimiipuu on whose land I live illegally.</p></div><div class="gmail-subscriber-only" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 24px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:16px;line-height:27px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Gier was coordinator of religious studies at the University of Idaho from 1980 to 2003. Email him at <a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(6,69,173);text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:bold">ngier006@gmail.com</a>.</em></p></div></div></div>