We gathered in the afternoon autumn light in Seattle’s Seward Park—originally a Duwamish seasonal fishing village. Amidst Douglas Fir and Big Leaf Maples, our grounding activity considered how we can learn from the area’s original caretakers to connect with all creation around us and “re-indiginize“ ourselves to this place, regardless of where we’re “from.” We meandered our way through the park, paused at cozy nooks among the ancient old growth forest and engaged our 5 senses. We picked and tasted wild berries, listened to the leaves ruffle beneath, watched the eagles soar above, smelled seasonal scents, and touched the trees as we sent our salaams. Participants read notecards filled with Qur’anic ayat, Rumi poems, and the Seerah of our beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him—what he loved to eat, smell, and see with his blessed limbs. We paused in silence. Then we shared with each other. Our attention shifted markedly in a few short hours. Our focus became captured by the seemingly simple, and the details emerged as remarkable to our senses—a spider’s web glimmering in golden hour light, the sound of a sudden breeze upon the tops of 150-foot Western Red Cedars, and the comfort of moist dirt on the face of our palms. We made wudu at the shore of the lake with its fresh water, we prayed in lines on the pebble stone beach. Sujoods were not rushed. No one seemed in need of knowing the exact time. It was perfectly evident before us, with the colors of the sky above. A collective salaam.