As you may or may not know, this year I left my position with Spectre Gaming to pursue new ventures. During that time, my significant other, Moniece, and I have been working on a socially conscious project called The Human Known Project. The goal of our efforts is to create a place that is open to the world to share, read, and connect over real-life human stories and experiences. We are building a resource and infrastructure to advance personal knowledge, education, research, the humanities, and communities.

We have a lot of work to do yet, but some people have found the site already even though it’s not officially been publicized. Here’s a few very interesting stories that you should read:

• An Entire Year Alone – This year alone is unique.  It is our first deployment of the Iraq war, having spent the first three years of the conflict in Recruiting.  Before that, the war didn’t exist and there were no fears of separations besides the short term schooling he was to attend.  Our world shifted slightly when the war started…
• The San Diego Firestorm, Staying Behind to Protect Home and Community – On Sunday we first saw… and smelled smoke. It’s O.K. to see smoke, but when you smell it in the wind driven conditions… it is coming at you. On went the TV… and the monitoring began…
• The Heirloom Duck Lamp – While I was growing up, everywhere we moved we had this lamp, my parents had received it as a wedding present. A carved wooden duck as the base, an oval lampshade, and three metal-and-wood cattails “growing” up from the base and visible above the top of the lampshade. If we ran or stomped past the lamp, sometimes the cattails would rattle against the metal parts concealed by the shade. When Mom and Dad got divorced, they both loved that lamp, so they found a solution…

Thank you to everyone that’s been helping with the project and everyone that has come across our site and shared an experience. This resource is about all of us, including you. Please contribute to the effort and make yourself known at The Human Known Project.