when everything is important

There's no such thing as wasted contributions.

Look for the world under the rocks

Make your friends your teachers and blend the usefulness of learning with the pleasure of conversation.

∆ Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

"you're not acquiring knowledge you're entering a relationship with knowledge"

“Research is a ceremony for building closer relationship with an idea”

-Shawn Wilson, ‘Research is Ceremony: Researching within an Indigenous Paradigm’.

A shared space not for expanding or building taller, but for filling with objects of memories and values. To strangers it might just look like a jumble of junk. To the friends involved, it is an ever growing shrine of a communal history.

In Aboriginal worldviews, nothing exists outside of a relationship to something else. There are no isolated variables—every element must be considered in relation to the other elements and the context. Areas of knowledge are integrated, not separated. The relationship between the knower and other knowers, places and senior knowledge-keepers is para... See more