🤸‍♀️ The Birthright of a Safe Community 🥰

Hi dear student,

The reason I am so excited about the upcoming transformation in our company operations is my deep belief in the value and power of community. If creativity is our birthright, as contemplated in my last newsletter, then it might be a safe and supportive community that can best assist us in being creative. Our home, our country, should, of course, offer such a safe environment, but the daily news report differently… so what to do?

Build safe communities wherever we can! Over the last five years, since Covid invited me to establish our Academy of the Puppet, our online community has proven to be a place of calm, steady, and encouraging support for people from all corners of the world, transcending political and religious borders by focusing on kindness and our creative power. From New York to Hawaii, from Iran to Israel, from Tasmania to South Africa, Ukraine, and Russia, our participants have one common goal: to nurture their creativity, release their soulful artistic longing and talents, and in doing so affect the world around them in so many positive ways.

We might be best able to take care of the larger world by first taking care of and nurturing ourselves, so our empowered and happy selves can create positive ripple effects beyond our wildest imagination.

I still need to remind myself daily to take proper care of my body and mind. Woke up this morning a little overwhelmed with all the many projects I am working on, fun though they might be. I jumped up and wanted to rush right into action. Knowing better, I took a deep breath and settled down for my morning meditation first, and afterwards walked down to the river to take a dip in the ice-cold water coming straight from the mountains surrounding the new country setting of Worlds of Puppets. I walked carefully past the stony nest of the Oyster Catcher, who keeps protesting my regular disturbances with turbulent flights and upset calls from his long orange beak. He quickly settled down again back on his three eggs that must be ready to hatch any day now. Straight into the greenhouse from there, excited to see my veggies grow and wondering which of the 7 types of new strawberry plants will do best here in my local climate. I need this natural life around me to be able to sustain working long hours on the computer and serve my students.