A Field Guide

Know Me.

Helping people understand one another.

A page each. Traded. Kept.

Imagine someone you love handing you one page that says how to read them. Imagine handing one back.

A Field Guide

How To Read Me.How To Read You.

MumHow To Read Me

When I Go Quiet

I'm usually worrying about money, never about you.

What I Need From You

One real sentence a day. Any one at all.

Example
MayaHow To Read Me

When I Go Quiet

I'm not angry with you. I'm full. Sit near me and don't ask yet.

What I Need From You

Knock, then wait for me to answer.

Example

MayaMum

A Field Guide

Which Two Of You

A Teenager And A ParentOne page that says how to read them, in their own words. One page handed back.
A Grown Child And A ParentThe conversation two grown people never quite had, laid out so it finally can be.
An Older Parent And Their FamilyThe stories, the sayings, the recipe nobody wrote down, asked for while there is time.
Brothers And SistersThe same house, remembered differently.
A Grandparent And A GrandchildTwo ends of one family, finding they laugh at the same things.
A Whole FamilyEverybody under one roof, a page each, around one table.
The Friends Who Became FamilyFor the people you picked, and who picked you back.
Two People Who Are DatingHow to read me before you have to guess. How to read you before I get it wrong.
A Couple Finding Their Way BackA way back to each other.

How It Goes

Your Own Pages,
In Your Own Time.

IIIIIIIV
  1. IOne of you begins, and invites the other.
  2. IIEach of you writes your own pages, alone, in your own time.
  3. IIIYou choose which pages to hand over.
  4. IVYou trade them, and you keep them.

Yours, Until You Hand It Over.

Every page stays with the person who wrote it until they choose to share it, and it can be taken back at any time.

Know Me.

Keep discovering the people you love.

Read me.

A page each. Traded. Kept.