This site is called In Search of Wisdom—but not the kind that arrives tied in a bow, or the kind that settles once and for all. The wisdom we seek here is living, relational, composted. It emerges in the spaces between.

You may have visited this site before and noticed practical reflections, grounded ideas, civic explorations. That’s still here. But something has been shifting under the surface—a kind of subtle turning. This page is a small lantern, lit at the edge of that turning.

Four Invitations: Truth as Relationship

Recently, four images arrived like metaphors in motion. Each one offered a different way to approach truth—not as possession, but as offering. Not as certainty, but as relationship.

 🍄 Compost Heap — Intuition

Wisdom that grows slowly in the dark. Knowing that arises from listening to the land, the body, the forgotten. This is the realm of metabolized insight, where nothing is wasted, and everything feeds something else.

What must die in me for new knowing to take root?

 🌌 Skewed Constellations — Science

Seeing patterns in the stars, while remembering that our gaze is never neutral. This is science practiced with humility—aware of its power, aware of its blind spots, and always in relationship with the unknown.

 What constellations become visible only in the presence of others?

🪵 Forest Door — Imagination

The threshold into mystery. The dream-space that lets us envision other ways of being, knowing, and becoming. Not escape, but return. Imagination not as fantasy, but as doorway into deeper truths.

 What must I unlearn to walk through this door with reverence?

🏺 Cracked Vessel — Reason

Reason with cracks. Discernment that holds paradox. The kind of thinking that doesn’t seek to seal every leak, but to let light through the breaks. Reason in service of relationship, not control.

 Can I reason with the cracked parts of myself, and of others, without trying to seal them shut?

These invitations aren’t just metaphors. They are relational practices, and they are guiding this site’s evolution.

 I have been deeply influenced by the work of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (Hospicing Modernity, Outgrowing Modernity) and Iain McGilchrist (The Master and His Emissary, The Matter With Things). Their fields of thought—one rooted in complexity and collapse, the other in neurobiology and relational attention—have shaped the path I am now walking.

 What you will find here may not always be clear, or polished, or certain. But I hope you will feel its intention:

🌀 to invite reflection,

🪶 to nurture awareness,

🤝 and to restore the primacy of right relationship in all that we do and imagine together.

 Thank you for being here.

If something stirs within you, stay a while.

Or simply follow the thread that called you here, wherever it leads next.