Arts, Politics, Puppets and Some Deep Rest
Newsletter from June 18, 2025
Hi dear student,
How are you doing? I hope that this newsletter, the first after a longer brake, finds you in good spirits, despite all the chaos going on in the world.
How can we best stay sane and productively active these days? Like always, an attitude of service might also serve ourselves the best. It can help keeping our focus and determination in even the worst of situations. There is ALWAYS an opportunity to plant a seed of hope, to share a dose of inspiration and a random or concrete act of kindness.
Also, let us remember that the world has always been a crazy place of chaos and plight. But people before us have moved on despite all the odds, and so can we. Whatever we might be facing now, can drive us on to truly give our best, to make our voices count, to make our Art count. We move on as well and give our best!
Is this a call to action? Well, here it comes, maybe we will need some deep rest first, maybe we need to realign, re-think and re-feel how we want to proceed in our lives, and how to best spend our precious energy. If the world is spinning too fast and loud for us, we might want to look for some stillness and silence in our own private lives. This at least is what I needed to do for a while before finally sitting down again to write this newsletter.
In our online courses we share and support each other with our many individual creative ways of spreading joy and inspiration. Sometimes we might stumble and even fall, we might experience deep frustration and fatigue and paralysis, we might lose hope and our optimism … and that is understandable and normal.
Now we rest, we ask for help, we do what we need to do to nurture ourselves and refill that cookie jar … and the moment will come when we emerge again, refreshed, clearheaded, determined and ready to hand out our offerings from our own refilled cookie-jar.
Soon it will be time again to let those puppets dance, inspire, educate, bring change and new ideas, demonstrate new possibilities, heal, or simply bring a needed smile on somebody’s tired face. After some proper rest it will be so easy again to do!
Thanks for reading my ponderings, and I am glad to know you are out there in this crazy yet magnificent world.
Wishing you creative power and joy,
Bernd
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