Welcome to an audacious
journey, in a search for wisdom
we may have misplaced.

There are deep wells of cultural wisdom across our country, traditions and lessons that have been swept away by our tech-driven, plugged-in race to consumption, popularity, and perceptions of success.

These sources of wisdom exist amongst our Indigenous people, much of it focused on desperately needed social and emotional wellness, and yet largely ignored in our classrooms and homes. I believe that other similarly “overlooked” cultures, shaped by shared geography, ethnicity, jobs, and life struggles, hold jewels of equal value.

I plan to spend up to two years on a journey of questioning and listening; of sitting with elders who remember what and how they learned from their grandparents; a window into perhaps 150 years of diverse wisdom traditions. I will travel slowly, on backroads, acoss the USA and Canada.

I plan to meet and learn from Black Americans in the Delta and in northern cities; Latinx Americans from the great Southwest to New York City; ranchers in the Texas panhandle and farmers across the plains; Acadians in Maine and Lousiana; coal miners in Appalachia; fisher-folk in the Canadian Maritimes; long-established and more recent immigrant communities; Indigenous people across the US and Canada; and more.