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and most challenging questions of living, working, and being. We
begin with ourselves, doing our own inner alchemy, the work of
transforming our lead into gold. We cultivate a sacred practice that
helps us cultivate our own sanity and re-member ourselves as cells in
the body of the Earth. We allow ourselves to be moved by what we
experience, engaging directly with the world around us in a way that
furthers beauty, sustainability and wellbeing for all life. Our work
and way of living become our active hope, our response/ability and
our aesthetic response to the world.