KNOWING
FROM ROOT
TO FRUIT
What started as a personal longing to belong and a dream shared with a bucket of paint became a discovery: a color palette could change more than a room. It could change our relationship to it. Same room. Same belongings. Different world. Then discovered, words we use could do the same.
Color taught me that when relationships (not people) change, worlds change. I began to wonder if the same was true of us.
As humans, most of us have made it together and currently sit somewhere within a pyramid of needs, beyond survival and safety.
We have come to know how to heal disease, eliminate hunger, educate children, fly across the world, heat or cool our homes in minutes, and carry nearly all of humanity’s knowledge in our pockets or purses. We have come to know so much. Our population has grown from six to eight billion people and counting.
It is crowded at the bottom, lonely at the top, and suffocating in the middle.
Why are there still people at the bottom living in true misery, unable to survive or be safe, while so few at the top are living in extreme prosperity and still miserable, despite achieving personal potential and self-fulfillment? Why are billionaires going to Burning Man to find a sense of belonging they can’t find in a world where they have the means and power to have and do what they want, alongside people who can barely overcome their circumstances?
Welcome to our “Should Know Better” crisis.
It's the underlying chronic conflict standing in the way of human beings meeting their needs by belonging, becoming, and bearing the fruit of their knowing together and doing better.
THE TROVE
Essays. Stories. Rabbit Trails.
Our beginnings are as unique as fingerprints, but we are born into a world that tells us we belong to something much larger than ourselves through its ecological, biological, and physiological nature.
In The Trove I follow the knowing that brought me here — from belonging, becoming, and bearing what we know — to the question at the heart of it all:
What becomes possible when we stop trying to know better and begin knowing better together?
I'm working on Root to Fruit conversations that make the end of our Should Know Better Crisis — to know together and do better.
There will always be things we do not know.
But wanting to know is our North Star.
When we know together, we do better.
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