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WELCOME ︎ VISION ︎ 100 ︎ FRUIT ︎ SEEDS ︎ CONNECTION

Fruit For Thought


“Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind
For seeds grow after their kind.

Play on, children.”

George Carlin, Funkadelic



The Way of the Seed



Abundance is our birthright. The notion that there is not enough food, not enough space, and not enough resources for everyone on this earth to live happily and healthily has perpetuated our oppression and turned us against each other. Generating community abundance as opposed to individual profit is a transformative shift in orientation in our capitalist world.


Ancient futurism. Re-membering the wisdom held by ancient cultures invites great wonder into how humans lived and built and ate without creating the waste we see today. Re-turning towards ancient wisdom guides us towards living in harmony with the natural world as we continue to evolve with the technology available to us today.


Bioregional Design. Orienting our life ways and emerging knowledge systems to our bioregion grounds culture in place. The land forms, watersheds, and weather patterns that define our geographies affect us more than extractive capitalism likes to acknowledge. By re-orienting ourselves in relation to our geography, we are enculturating ourselves to natural systems far older than any human systems thus expanding our web of relations through time and space.


Creation over consumption. Since the rise of Cold War globalization, free market capitalism has taken over the world driving and perpetuating a state of constant consumption and limiting creativity to that which can be sold at peak profit or mass produced cheaply. Seedia shifts our focus back to creation as our connection to the life force. How can we work with the materials we have access to?


Community, soil, ecology. Can we unite on common ground? Can we honor the life that soil gives and receives? Can we engage with the earth and each other with an ecological orientation?


Imagination. What wants to be and what is our role in that becoming?


Indigenous knowledge and lifeways. Aspiring to emerging ecologies without considering, honoring, and consulting Indigenous lives and knowledge continues to perpetuate the colonial operation. Decolonization requires letting go of the systems that tell us to move forward without looking around and learning the protocols of the land we live with.


Mind, body, soul connection. Education that directs the mind, neglects the body, and forgets the soul has facilitated an incoherence in our relationship to self, others, nature, and the life force that moves through all. Connecting with the mind, body, and soul integrates the whole being and allows us to relate with the world as it is AND as we are.


Power-from-within is the energy that we source from our own aliveness in our capacity to create, feel, activate, and love. Power-from-within enables us to connect with one another in empowerment and facilitation in opposition to the survival of the fittest and competition narratives that have prevailed for so long.


Self-knowledge. Knowledge of self is an essential component to the co-creation of an emergent culture. We did not arrive to this moment from nothing - understanding the process of this arrival, whether predicated on our racialization, gender, class, culture, nationality, etc., informs the how in the what and the why in the where. Knowing our past empowers us to make conscious choices in the present to invite a future we wish to experience.


Storytelling is the most ancient mode of connection beyond time and space. Storytelling does not compete with the neural networks already in place inside one’s mind, instead carving a new path of perspective. Stories hold the seeds of consciousness that weave culture and connection beyond one’s personal experience. Stories guide our perception and open our minds to see the unseen layers of reality that we navigate everyday.


Play is an essential element of learning. Play invites us to respond to the present with joy and imagination. Play allows us to approach that which is being discovered at the pace of embodied curiosity.


Protecting the sacred. Modeling a relationship to the sacred permeates all action as we uncover what is sacred to us. Inspiring practices to honor that which gives us life guides us towards connection with the world we move within.