Po(sey) Sessions

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I am working on a project that is about the interweaving of the origins of different things. It is about stories. It is about all the ways they shape meaning in our individual lives. And building of these meanings into families, communities, and societies. Origins are about culture and history. And the ones I want to look at for this project embrace passion and memory. Together they can build a synergistic scaffold of understanding. The start, or origin, of this project was a seed in my mind and heart that was nourished and started to grow.  The metaphor works particularly well because I am interested in food and the plants that we rely on for nourishment, but this also the way that narratives and memory work in our life. "Creation of Adam"  by  iProzac  is licensed under  CC BY-SA 2.0 There is the origin of this project. Both in idea and in assignment. The origin of the texts. (Moerman and his sources) The origin stories of the tribes. The loss of people from t