Nananke

The creative process is often a roller coaster. On the largest scales of community cultures, lineages, and individual careers as well as the individual expressive acts that pull together to demonstrate skill and practice. We find reason throughout circumstance that mot...

The things we practice make us. When we whittle we share our sweat with matter and bring an image into view from our minds' depths. There are examples across cultures that reshape what is shared in larger contexts. Festivals, shows, performances, ceremonies, and all ma...

The sun is staying out longer, we have more frequent good weather, and the options for activities broadens. When we run around and get to stay active the beauty of the outdoors moves us in unique ways. Finding seasonal activities we enjoy can change how we approach the...

Fur, claws, and paws. Fins, gills, and scales. The natural world is full of unique traits that help creatures move through and exist in the world. Natural life is constant. Running from moment to moment is not a custom in the jungles, plains, tundras, or dark dense dep...

Finding calm in a fast paced world takes practice. There are so many things pulling us every which way and the tendency for many is to dig our heels into the sand. Often this leaves us pulled in pieces and unable to hold up all the directions calling us. Accounting for...

The path we trace through the universe feels as if only a moment. We rest in the present and hold our decisions on actions in what we can consider in mind. The hard problem of consciousness is a constant. What makes us view and move through the world as we do. The imme...

Language is a powerful tool. The lines of communication are fluid and only defined between those that need explicit rules to share specific intentions. The natural world is defined by actions dictating connection and paths forward. Animals in the wild demonstrate fitne...

Words have power. The ways we move through and shine in the world are dictated by what has been seen as valuable. Times past have known very specific sets of valuable motions as key. The days finding us now are showing an ever expanding number of options through which...

The body eats itself to survive. Only as a last resort but still the body has the capacity to breakdown and consume itself for energy. The internal process is called catabolysis and happens once all other resources within the body have been completely depleted. There a...

The age of the specialist has been here since the rise of tools. The wells of knowledge throughout societies dictate most of where our collective footprints. Where we grow is a reflection of where we have been able to explore. The wealth of knowledge throughout society...