Welcome to found in situ. This is a culmination of many years of contemplation, meditation, and timing. I’ve longed to develop something, not sure if in the form of a company or something else, that reflected my uninhibited interests, before life intervened.

Yet I’ve always known there would come a day when the conditions were right and I would take a leap of faith and take the nerve-wracking first step and do something significant that would propel me into jumping in to my passions. This website is this leap.

I’d been confiding in one of my best friends about these ideas. On July 3, 2015, we were talking on the phone, about this and other things. I’m not sure what specifically in that conversation was different from previous conversations but suddenly, I experienced a strong jolt of motivation. Within the hour, I was on the phone with a web host and started building my website. I’d had limited experience with webmastering (I also have a gardening blog) so was not entirely new to this. Once I found a website name that felt right, everything else would follow.

The Name

How did I come up with the name, found in situ?  I wanted the name to represent my true self and the concepts and things that I naturally connect with. The word, found: I liked that it is the root for foundation (as in the start of something, that which is closest to the ground of something). It is also a verb, to be found (or discovered by someone) or that I found.

The concept of in situ. This phrase appealed to me from its use in the art world (piece of art constructed in the place where it will ultimately reside), archaeology (an artifact that has not been moved from its original place of deposition), and other fields. There is an elegance in the broadness of the concept.

Together, found in situ means that I am now where I was always supposed to be. It’s the core part of me that had never left the scene.