When I started the -p series, I already knew much of the information individually.
I knew the words.
I knew many of the patterns.
I had years of notes, examples, and intuitions about what -p was doing.
But there’s a difference between:
recognizing patterns
and:
being grounded enough in them to guide others through them clearly.
That’s what this series gave me.
As I worked through the videos, documents, examples, and explanations, the relationships between:
base
grounding
emergence from condition
the place from which becoming happens
became much clearer and more internally connected.
Especially:
how -p behaves with other suffixes
how the vowel forms relate
how continuative forms restructure around the base
how bodily and experiential patterns organize themselves
The work didn’t suddenly create these ideas.
It strengthened them.
It grounded them.
And that matters because teaching forces a different level of understanding.
You can’t stay vague when guiding others through something.
You begin feeling where:
the structure holds
the glosses wobble
the examples align
the deeper orientation becomes visible
That process sharpened my understanding in ways I can already feel changing the quality of the teaching.
And honestly, that’s one of the biggest things your support helps make possible.
People often think support only funds:
videos
posts
documents
But what it really creates is:
sustained space for understanding to deepen and stabilize.
The return on that compounds over time.
Every series strengthens the next one.
Every document clarifies future research.
Every explanation makes the larger structure easier to see.
And over time:
the worldview carried inside the language becomes more visible and more teachable.
That’s the real investment happening here.
Not just preserving information.
Helping reveal a living structure that can continue growing outward into future learners, speakers, teachers, and communities.
That means a great deal to me.
lemlmtš p isnkʷsqelyxʷ
Thank you my fellow humans!
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Documents from this series
📄 ED006 — The Base of Beginning (-p)
Introduction to the structural meaning of -p as base, beginning, and emergence.
📄 ED006-P — The Working Base
Shows how -p behaves with other suffixes and across larger word structures.
📄 ED006-U — The Base of Beginning (Tachini U Journal)
Research notes and deeper structural insights that emerged during the series.
📚 The Base of Beginning Collection
All three documents bundled together as a complete study set.
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