I fell down the rabbit hole of studying duality as a young graduate student in fisheries and wildlife during the Pacific salmon crisis, where I witnessed the hostility that gets created by operating within a false polarity. Over many moons, my research evolved toward understanding the nature of duality itself, in order to recognize and transcend the abuse of it that is so prevalent in much of human life... in communities, in families, in business and politics, in marriages, and within the self. I try my best to work at both the micro and macro scales, finding the relationships between them - and being a salt maker is the perfect praxis. Salt is itself a manifestation of healthy duality. Earth and Water work together to create the magic minerals. Sun and Moon work together evaporate the seawater and reveal its bounty. Salt is both a preservative and a desiccant. Life and Death in one small package.

When facing a problem of false polarization, ask yourself, where is the salt?