Everyday-Medal · La Curandera Nanai

Medals are awarded in recognition of acts of great courage. But what about everyday acts? How do we recognise those small moments that often require great effort and sometimes go unnoticed?

Everyday-Medal is a way of telling someone: I see what you do. It matters. I recognise your effort. It is not a generic gift. It is a specific recognition — linked to a concept, a word that other cultures preserved and that describes exactly what that person represents.

Because what you name exists, and what you say has an impact on the lives of others.

Language as a tool

The words we use

When a culture names a set of human attributes, it leaves evidence that those attributes are worth recognising. Some of these words have faded into silence, others simply have no translation.

Sisu

Finnish

The silent strength that drives you forward when everything seems uphill. Determination, courage and resilience — the capacity to cross your own limits with dignity.

Oubaitori

Japanese

The practice of not comparing yourself to others. Just as each flower blooms in its own time and in its own way, each person has their own rhythm and their own path.

Meliorismo

Latin

The belief that the world can improve through human effort. Not blind optimism, but the active conviction that things can be better.

Shoshin

Japanese

Beginner's mind. Maintaining an open, unprejudiced attitude toward any subject, letting go of preconceptions and meeting each moment with curiosity.

Nemophilist

Greek

A lover of forests. Someone who finds peace, refuge and belonging among trees and wild nature.

Spuddler

Dialectal English

Someone who works diligently on small tasks. The one who tends to the details, who does things without being asked.

Balter

Archaic English

To dance without grace but with great joy. The celebration that needs no audience and no perfection.

Yutori

Japanese

The mental and emotional space created when one is not rushed. The room needed to live well, to breathe, to be.

Ramfeezled

Scottish

Exhausted to the bone. The total depletion that comes from having given everything — not the tiredness of someone who did nothing, but of someone who gave it all.

What you receive

Our medals

A little book that holds something

Each medal is presented inside a faux leather diptych with gold corners. Closed, it looks like an ancient object, something to be kept. When opened, it reveals its magic and its purpose.

Assembled by hand · Unique pieces · Numbered

The word that names it all

The left page contains the definition of the concept, the word in its original language, its pronunciation, and what it means. The words that other cultures preserved to name what our everyday language cannot reach.

The recognition

Each medal carries a dedication that explains how this attribute is recognised in the person who receives it.

Far from being an empty certificate, it is a text that specifically names what you see in that person and how you have experienced it. The recipient does not only receive an object. They receive the reflection of how they are seen.

One of a kind

No two medals are alike. Each object has a previous life, it is found not made. Transformed and assembled by hand.

The ribbon, the pendant, the materials: each combination exists only once. When sold, it is not reproduced. All medals are numbered and form part of a public register that you too can be part of.