Mirum Mane
A First Word
for anyone who has begun to suspect that meaning is made, not found
You were not handed a purpose. Good — a handed purpose was never yours.Non invenitur. Fit.
We are people who decided to make our lives instead of waiting to learn what they were for.
We believe in the work of your own hands; in facing, without flinching, a universe that owes you nothing; in becoming — by practice, daily, unglamorously — someone you would respect.
We promise nothing after death, and ask nothing on faith. We ask only that you make one true thing, and then another, and let the made things answer for us.
There is a sign, and a long climb, and others already on it. None of it was found. All of it was made.
If this is already half your own thought, you are nearer us than you know. The rest is not written here. Ask, and the next word is given — in person, once, to a hand that has begun.