We are here to know. And when we don't, we spend a lifetime looking for answers. When we do, we spend a lifetime creating with them.
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THE THEORY
From Root To Fruit
THE FRUIT OF OUR ROOT
Wee spend most of out lives trying to know who we are, want to be, and do for with rest of their lives, once we become adults.
What if we are born with everything we need to know?
This question is at the heart of The Art of Knowing.
A trilogy of self-actualization: three ways of knowing ourselves, and the world. One shared destiny to belong, become, and birth what we know.
The proof is in the baby.
A human baby is a seed that comes into the world with everything it needs to become what it is capable of becoming, born into a motherly nature that speaks through color, beauty, harmony, patterns, symbols, actions, and reactions. A home that recycles all life on earth: from fertility, to fecundity, to mortality. This is our biological baggage—the root of our belonging. To belong. To become. To birth what only we can, then root for others who can't.
The hands that rock the cradle rule the world.
We are those hands.
Rooting has two sides. One side is your nature—your biological baggage, where you come from, your life. The other side is your nurture—caring, cheering, resolving conflict.
The Art of Knowing, it is both. It’s rooting into your nature and rooting through your nurture, belonging, becoming, and birthing a life that can root for others for centuries to come.
THE TRILOGY
BELONG
ROOTING FOR OURSELVES
Nature comes in colors for a reason: to teach us that the world we are born into is not only bountiful, but beautiful. Color is how Mother Nature makes us fall in love with life—and why coloring is the first thing we teach children to do. It is often a child’s first experience of making something they feel proud of, which quietly builds confidence and ownership—a foreshadowing of what they’ll need to thrive and survive: the confidence to create beauty of their own.
The Nature Of Color
A project I call Color Baggage.
BECOME
ROOTING FOR EACHOTHER
Our needs are met by others for years before we can meet them on our own. That’s how we learn we live in a world that cares, and that we are worthy of being cared for. This is our biological baggage. When we believe otherwise, we are as miserable as a helpless baby. A happy, curious baby expects to grow up, belong, and become part of a world where curious and happy adults are capable of knowing better and building a life full of possibility—together.
The Nurture Of Care
A project I call Karma Physics.
BIRTH
ROOTING FOR DREAMS
Every living thing creates life. Every living thing dies. But only humans can choose what kind of life they birth, and live to talk about it. Words are the building material that bridge biology, belonging, and becoming into shared meaning. Language turns our stories, observations, thoughts, ideas and drams into knowing into reality. Different words create different worlds.
The Narrative Of Meaning
A project I call Apple Orange Wisdom.