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You Know Everything

The proof is your life.

What started as my personal need to belong became a discovery about human knowing—how we belong, become, and bear what we know. I call it Knowing: From Root to Fruit. The proof is in the life you are already living.

HOW I CAME TO KNOW →

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Knowing Starts With
Our Need To Belong

The proof is in our nature.
 

We come into a world that wants us to immediately know we belong through its color, light, and beauty. Color is how Mother Nature makes us fall in love with life. Like bees with flowers, we are born to know we belong because her nature lives in us. Mother Nature is the master teacher of attraction and relationship—not the kind we force, but the kind we learn to trust. Belonging is how we first recognize the knowing we came with.
 

Relationships are our ecological baggage.

HOW I CAME TO BELONG→

Only Care Can Meet Our Need To Become

The proof is in the baby.

Before babies have language, misery sounds an alarm so someone can recognize a need and meet it. That is how every human being survives.

For years, babies are cared for without words. Until they can meet their own. 

It turns out the Golden Rule is not simply something we are taught. It is something we first experience over and over again as proof that the world we belong to, also has a care-proof net that roots for us to trust and become. 

Care is our biological birthright.

HOW I CAME TO BECOME

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We Become To
Bear What We Know


The proof is in our words.  

Humans and trees are not the only ones with roots. Words have roots too.

One of the greatest moments in a child’s life is the first word: “Mama.” “Dada.” We wait for it because we know something extraordinary has happened. Language has become a bridge through which we can share what we know.

Nature creates life. We create meaning through language. Across cultures and time, people have recognized that words carry creative power.

Fecundity is our sacred bedrock.​ 

HOW I CAME TO BEAR AND SHARE

ENTER THE TROVE

Why spend a lifetime trying to know better when  we already do? Welcome to The Trove, a collection of essays, stories, and rabbit trails that explore how to we are born to belong, become, and bear fruit with what we already know.  

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