"This moral distinction between natural and unnatural, alive and dead is yet another layer of colonial heritage blocking me from relationship with the environment I inhabit." Many of these projects are very innovative—feats of the intellect, really—but as I hear them, the absence of life (and reverence for it) looms loud. But the over-reliance on human agency can pull us out of the present and distract from the life that’s all around us. A recent course exploring the concept of Kinship opened my mind to the ways colonial ideology is ingrained in our society. And it also manifests in my heartfelt efforts to solve, fix, and make projects of life.