A Threshold Guide

Walking beside you as we transition from one reality to the next.

I grew up in the United States under an unconscious cultural contract for good behavior and a uniform belief system of what is a successful life. In my years of traveling, questioning, dissolving, and maturing, I have come to realize that that worldview doesn’t serve me and the person I want to become; I have chosen to adopt a new value system to guide me.

I’ve gathered these values like cherished fruits in a handmade basket — harvested from my time living and working amongst indigenous communities, observing nature, wrestling with my relationship with time, money, family, country, and ultimately observing within myself what feels most true. You can read more of my story here.

While the current mainstream reality is breaking apart, I believe a deep values shift is the bridge we need to cross the threshold, and that starts on the individual level — each person asking what it is that truly matters.

Values are not simply beliefs or ideas of things that sound good — they are principles that guide decisions and action. What you value you protect, serve, and feed.

If you don’t know what your values are, look at your actions and you can easily see that which you are valuing — where your time, money, attention, and creativity goes. From there you can decide how you want to close the gap between what your heart values and what your actions show you actually value.

If you have a big gap, you can give yourself grace — we are waking up from doldrums of acting based on what we ‘thought’ was ‘good’ (based on what we were told was good). You don’t have to be hard on yourself, but you do have to be honest. With clear eyes we can take steps forward in the direction we truly want to go.

I devote my life to staying clear on that which I find most important and aligning my creative expression with those values. I want to show through example that we can walk out of a system that isn’t serving us and create one that does by looking at what we are feeding, adjusting our values and aligning our actions towards the world we want to see.

Let’s do this together, and bear witness to a beautiful world unfold, beyond what we can even imagine.

Current Values & Creations:

Build worlds / homes / art with natural materials. Put love, care and attention into all that you do. Value the handmade, where you can sense the presence of a human. Natural beauty is a healing force. [Casa Awänímä]
Intercultural relationships bridge intelligence, worldview, and can lead to incredible emergent results. Treat farmers with respect and pay them dignified wages. Take care of the places where your food grows. Respect biocultural heritage and their traditional wisdom practices.
Don’t eat foods that damage your body and the Earth. Eat foods that are grown in biodiverse food forests with rich soils by people who are paid fairly. Treat your food with respect, and it’ll retain its medicinal value.
Take responsibility for your life — learn the skills necessary for human survival so we can all participate in creating a healthy society together. Become a person others want to be in community with.
Creativity is the language of the heart. The most holy thing we can do is express ourselves creatively and allow our souls to shine. Support artists, always. We want a world filled with art.