BECAUSE GROWN UPS NEED FIELD TRIPS, TOO.
The Library Field Guide is a self-guided afternoon for following what catches your attention—and seeing where it leads.
Head to a library.
Wander without knowing what you’re looking for.
Gather what intrigues you.
Put unexpected ideas into conversation.
Then make something from what you find.
Designed to be experienced solo or with a friend, it’s a playful practice in curiosity, attention, connection, and creative response—without needing to know where any of it is going.
FOR THE
“WHAT SHOULD WE DO TODAY?”
dAYS.
Grab someone you like spending time with or go solo, pick a library, and go.
The Field Guide will give you somewhere to begin, things to notice, and just enough structure to keep the afternoon moving. And plenty of room for the afternoon to become something you never could have planned.
No reservations. No elaborate itinerary. No pressure to make the day “worth it.”
Just somewhere to go, something to follow, and a little curiosity about what might happen.
what is a field guide?
A PLACE TO PRACTICE THE SKILL OF BEING OURSELVES
The Field Guides aren't designed to tell you what to think or who to become.
Instead, they're built around three guiding practices that help you slow down, notice more, and engage more intentionally with both yourself and the world around you.
Together, these practices create space for insight to arise naturally. Rather than chasing a particular outcome, you'll learn how to cultivate curiosity, deepen your attention, and respond to what you discover in ways that can gradually become part of your everyday life.
three GUIDING practices
Sometimes it's difficult to know how to practice becoming the person we want to be.
Big changes can feel overwhelming, while abstract ideas often leave us wondering,
"Okay... but what do I actually do?"
The Field Guides offer a different approach:
small, thoughtful experiences that make it easier to practice qualities like curiosity, presence, creativity, and reflection in everyday life.
Rather than asking you to overhaul who you are, they invite you to take one meaningful step at a time and notice what begins to emerge.
It's to create the conditions for meaningful experiences, new perspectives, and a deeper relationship with yourself to progress naturally.
the field guides might be for you if...
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You love exploring places but want to experience them more intentionally.
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You're curious about yourself and enjoy asking thoughtful questions.
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You want simple ways to practice curiosity, presence, and creativity in everyday life.
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You enjoy reflecting, engaging, or simply noticing.
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You often leave a place feeling like there was something more to engage with.
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You're looking for meaningful ways to spend an afternoon—whether you're at home or traveling.
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You believe the places we spend time in can shape how we experience ourselves.
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You'd rather explore than optimize.
Together, these practices create space for insight to arise naturally. Rather than chasing a particular outcome, you'll learn how to cultivate curiosity, deepen your attention, and respond to what you discover in ways that can gradually become part of your everyday life.
Maybe a story. A conversation. A myth. An exhibition. A dinner party. A tiny zine. A fashion show. Something that doesn’t have a name yet.
Because I don't think creativity is "being an artist" or even making something you'd normally call "art."
To me, it means noticing what you’ve found and responding to it honestly.
The Field Guide will offer you a handful of unexpected ways to put your discoveries into conversation and see what happens when you give them somewhere to go.
You don’t have to make something good.
Just make something interesting to you.
WHAT'S IN a
field guide?
Each guide combines thoughtful prompts, simple practices, and short reflections on ideas like curiosity, attention, beginner's mind, creativity, and making meaning.
Rather than simply reading about these ideas, you'll have the opportunity to explore them through your own experience.
Inside you'll find:
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Repeatable guided prompts and practices
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Reflections to deepen your experience
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An approachable method to engage with creativity without needing to be an "artist"
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Space to write, sketch, and respond
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Invitations to bring what resonates into everyday life
PHILOSOPHY
I believe that different environments invite different qualities of attention.
The Field Guides are designed to help you intentionally engage with places already woven into everyday life—libraries, cafés, botanical gardens, museums, neighborhoods, and more.
They're not about accomplishing a task or reaching an outcome.
They're about creating the conditions to notice what changes when you slow down, become curious, and relate to a place with intention.
Often, when we shift our attention, we begin to discover that we're also shifting our relationship with ourselves.
These guides have the flexibility of being done once, or repeatedly engaged with to create a series of conversations that build upon the last.
And they can be done by yourself or with a friend.
the collection
THE LIBRARY
Relationship to Self | Curiosity | Response
oh, hey!
still curious?
Here's a bit more about the guiding practices.
CURIOSITY
Every Field Guide begins with curiosity.
Curiosity is how we begin to get to know ourselves.
By intentionally changing our environment, we create opportunities to notice different thoughts, preferences, questions, and ways of relating that might remain hidden within our familiar routines.
As we explore a library, café, garden, museum, or another place with fresh attention, we begin to notice what naturally draws us in, what energizes us, and what we're quietly longing for.
Curiosity becomes less about finding answers and more about discovering what feels alive enough to keep exploring.
ATTENTION
Curiosity helps us notice what calls to us.
Attention is how we begin to build a relationship with it.
Once something catches our interest, the guides invite us to return to it with intention.
Through small practices of observation, reflection, and engagement, we begin to notice patterns in what consistently resonates, where our energy expands, and how different environments invite different qualities within us.
Attention transforms a passing moment of curiosity into a lived practice. Rather than waiting for change to happen, we begin intentionally creating the conditions that make our favorite qualities easier to access.
RESPONSE
Observation is only the beginning.
When we respond to what we've noticed, we begin to embody it.
Every Field Guide includes opportunities to respond to what you've noticed emerging in the place around you, in your own experience, and in the relationship between the two through simple, intentional practices. That response might take the form of writing, sketching, photography, conversation, movement, a question to carry with you, or a small shift in how you move through your day.
The intention isn't to produce something or arrive at the "right" insight.
It's to create space for your observations to become lived experiences rather than remaining interesting ideas.
Ideas that might otherwise stay abstract slowly take shape in our everyday lives.
Reflection becomes practice. Curiosity becomes relationship.
And the places we move through become active participants in how we come to understand ourselves and the world around us.