We cannot see these realities because we live our lives inside them. We are immersed in our own lives, attending to what is immediately before us — our work, relationships, events, desires, decisions and circumstances.
Yet beneath all of this are realities that shape how these things actually unfold.
They shape the directions we take, what we conceive as possible, what we choose, and ultimately, how our lives unfold.
A person therefore lives through what they are unable to see.
These realities can become organized in ways that work against the life.
They can also become organized in ways that serve the life.
This is what the House of Nomena is dedicated to.
An enduring attention
The House of Nomena is an institution dedicated to the human life itself.
We ordinarily encounter institutions devoted to particular aspects of human existence — universities devoted to learning, hospitals devoted to the body, and institutions devoted to particular forms of human activity.
The House is devoted to the life itself.
Within the House, this takes place through a movement.
What has ordinarily remained within the life can begin to become something the person can see, recognize, and encounter.
As these realities are reclaimed, a life can begin to unfold from a ground that serves the person.
There is something strange about being alive.
Life is constantly unfolding.
What arises is often not anticipated. We are always living into what has not yet become clear.
We move through this without fully knowing what is happening to our lives, what is shaping them, or where they are taking us.
The House is where you no longer stand alone before your life.
Your life is attended to — not merely for what it is, but in relation to what it is becoming.
This is somewhere to be with your life.
You remain the one who lives it.
But the question of what your life is, and what it is becoming, is no longer left to you alone.
It has a place to be attended to.