western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness.
‘Young girls are naturally inclined to witchcraft. You can’t leave a young girl alone in the backyard for 5 minutes without her trying to make "soup" from some flower petals and sticks’