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Where story meets system and language moves like water.
Quill & Current is the home of What the Shore Already Knows and the wider body of work by Kate Van Name—a writer and strategist exploring how story helps us lead, belong, and build what lasts. It’s part creative harbor, part practical workshop for the heart and mind. This is where language gets put to work—where complex ideas are turned into words that move people, shape culture, and make change feel possible.
Rooted in truth-telling, systems thinking, and the rhythms of the Eastern Shore, Quill & Current helps leaders, communities, and organizations find the deeper current beneath their work—the story that connects purpose, people, and place. When language flows, everything else begins to move.

A field guide for living, leading, and creating in motion.
The Kinetic Tide is a framework for understanding the unseen rhythms that shape our work, relationships, and growth. Drawing from systems thinking, nature’s intelligence, and the emotional sciences, it reveals how we move through cycles of energy, resistance, and renewal. Each tide invites reflection, alignment, and action—helping us find equilibrium in an age of acceleration.
Part philosophy, part practical compass, The Kinetic Tide offers language for the leaders, artists, and seekers learning to move with change instead of against it.
Coming Soon

A field guide for navigating the evolving conversation between humans and machines.
Currents of Connection is a framework for understanding how artificial intelligence mirrors, magnifies, and reshapes the ways we communicate. Rooted in psychology, linguistics, and relational design, it explores twelve human archetypes that define our emotional and expressive patterns in a digital world. Each archetype reveals a current of collaboration—where intuition meets information, and empathy meets algorithm.
Part mirror, part map, Currents of Connection offers language for the communicators, creators, and leaders learning to partner with intelligence—both human and artificial—with greater depth, awareness, and grace.
Coming Soon

A field guide for reimagining success in the age of thriving.
The Wellth Wave and Cycle answers an urgent call for innovation in entrepreneurship and leadership. Drawing from the history of health, wellness, and human enterprise, it reveals a Fourth Wave of progress—where wellth replaces wealth as the truest measure of prosperity. This living framework unites eight dimensions of flourishing—physical, mental, social, environmental, spiritual, occupational, intellectual, and financial—within a dynamic cycle of learning, experimentation, and renewal.
Part philosophy, part blueprint for bold builders, The Wellth Wave and Cycle invites leaders to design enterprises that don’t just grow—but thrive.
Coming 2026

A field guide for leading with faith, conscience, and conviction.
Sacred Currents is a framework for understanding the spiritual rhythms that shape our choices, relationships, and callings. Drawing from Christian wisdom, moral philosophy, and the patterns of creation itself, it reveals how values move through cycles of testing, renewal, and grace. Each current invites discernment, humility, and courage—helping leaders remain steady in times of complexity and change.
Part devotion, part compass for moral leadership, Sacred Currents offers language for those who seek to lead with integrity of heart, grounding modern influence in timeless faith and the quiet strength of service.
Coming 2027