ALL THERE IS TO KNOW.
Once we become adults, we spend most of our lives trying to know who we are, who we want to be, and what we want to do, as if we forgot. Maybe we have.
This question is at the heart of The Art of Knowing, a trilogy of self-actualization exploring three ways of knowing ourselves and the world through our biological baggage: the root of our belonging, becoming, and birthing what we know.
The proof is in the baby. The hands that rock the cradle rule the world. We are those hands.
A human baby comes into the world with a hunger for living and knowing. It is welcomed by a beautiful, colorful planet and a human network wired to root for it by meeting the needs required for it to grow, until it can meet its own. That is how we learn to believe in a world that cares about us.
How we learn to care for others, and the world.
Rooting has two sides.
One side is our nature: our biological baggage, where we come from, who we are, and what life we choose to create. The other side is our nurture: caring, cheering, resolving conflict, and helping others thrive.
In The Art of Knowing, it is both.
It is rooting into your nature and rooting through your nurture.
Belonging. Becoming. Birthing a life that can continue to root for the world for centuries to come.
THE TRILOGY
Belong. Become. Birth.
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 EACH OTHER
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. 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 do better as a result—together.
The Nurture Of Care
A project I call Karma Physics.
BIRTH
ROOTING FOR THE WORLD
Every living thing births life. 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 dreams into knowing into reality. Different words create different worlds.
The Narrative Of Creation
A project I call Apple Orange Wisdom.