Through a series of personal essays, interviews, and discussions of both my own research and current literature in cognitive science, I write to understand how our interactive relationships with each other and the land dynamically tune what we perceive, attend to, and remember over a lifetime. I interview artists, farmers, ecologists, engineers, mental health workers, scientists, philosophers, cooks, writers, and activists about practices of “participatory sensemaking” that foster healing. Such practices range from dancing with elders who have memory loss, to growing and preparing culturally-meaningful food, and much more.

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