Where do you call home?
Planet Earth. Where my loved ones are. And I could be anywhere in the world.
Who were your earliest teachers?
My grandparents on my father’s side where very close to me, especially my grandfather, he meant everything to me, Sari, the woman who helped my parents take care of us, and my sisters.
What season feels most like home?
Spring and summer, but mostly summer. Any day with the sun on my face. Without the sun, I’m really sad.
What animal, plant, or ecosystem do you feel especially connected to?
My connection is to Earth, like a mother. Everything Earth, all animals (though I’m scared of cats, but that’s another story). My life is devoted to her.
What is your favorite sound in nature?
Birds, the wind in the trees, the sea, my kids and grandkids laughing.
What skill do you think everyone should learn?
To welcome and bend with change. Times have changed. A new world is already here, and we need to embrace it. Today, what is happening to us, to our planet, is everywhere. We are part of Earth, not apart from her. We see it on the news, on social media, on television, in books, magazines, and all around us, so we cannot keep living as if nothing were happening. We cannot keep acting as if we didn’t know or didn’t see. These realities are closer to us than ever. So what do we do about it? Face it. Don’t walk away. Act on it. There are different ways to do it. Not perfectly, but through action. Learn more about it, soften and open up to new ideas, create new ways of being, new futures, and serve life through what we already do and love. If we tuned in, paused, or slowed down, we could feel her call in our hearts and bodies.
What impact do you hope your work has?
I hope its impact is infinite, because I’m giving it everything I have. I believe a better world is possible. That’s why I’m committed to helping build it. To me, the physical size of the project doesn’t matter. What matters is the energy behind it: the capacity to inspire, to educate, to serve, and to invite people into a different way of seeing and living. It isn’t an easy road, but it is a beautiful one. A real one. One led by the heart.
This work has made me a better human being, a better mother, wife, grandmother, and creative. Nature has been my greatest teacher. I hope to keep doing this for as long as I breathe. I don’t know exactly what the future looks like, but I keep moving forward with curiosity, trust, and an open heart. This way of creating and working is a new path, not a common one yet in this loud and greedy world, but I’m open to wherever it leads, as long as it remains aligned with who we are truly meant to be while on Earth.
What responsibility do you feel toward future generations?
The responsibility I feel toward future generations is the reason I live the way I do. Everything I do is my way of planting a garden for them. I try to do it with as much love, care, and devotion as I can, using whatever gifts and capabilities I have. That has become my life’s work. It breaks my heart to see the world my children and grandchildren are inheriting. I don’t want to be someone who takes or destroys. I want to help build. I want to give more than I take. I want to be “infinite possibilities.” I want to live as an example, because we can only be inspired by action. The work I do has changed me completely. Once you awaken to what is happening to Earth and to life, there is no going back. I can’t unknow it, and I can’t imagine living any other way than being of service to life. I know I am just a tiny grain of sand on this vast, beautiful, magical planet. But through Loona, I hope to show that small is beautiful. Something small, created with love, care, and devotion, can touch people, inspire them, and begin to create change. That gives me peace. Yes, sometimes I want to throw all my efforts away. Sometimes I feel discouraged doing work that goes against what everyone else is doing. But there is a stronger force that always lifts me back up and keeps me going. And I’m doing it with joy. Change is already happening because so many people are doing this work, each in their own way. Like you at Industry. As long as we keep creating spaces to share these stories, inspire one another, and remind people that another way of living is possible, there is hope.
So thank you, too, for being such an inspiration.
What wisdom do you hope gets passed on?
It all begins with self-love. Love yourself unconditionally so you can become more compassionate toward others and love unconditionally beyond yourself, too. Everything is within. All the answers. All the wisdom. Disconnect from your phone to reconnect with yourself and with Life. We are Earth. Everything is one. Pay attention. Attention becomes devotion, and devotion becomes infinite love. I believe that’s why we are here.
What are you most curious about right now?
I’ve always been deeply curious. I always want to know more, to understand more, to go deeper. Right now, I’m most curious about my creativity. I’m listening, and I’m not scared to try. I’m trying everything without judgment. Everything will be a lesson if I don’t like it, I heard what I wanted to do and at least I tried. I’m listening and enjoying every part of it. I’m letting my artistic side do what it wants to do, so I’m playing a lot, and it feels so good. I’m also curious about how naturally children move through the world. I see it in my two grandchildren. The way they play, experiment with life, their innocence, and the way they absorb everything like little sponges. I’m paying close attention because I want to learn from them. One of the things I’m most in awe of about humans is what we are capable of creating and imagining. People do such amazing things. But it has to be made responsibly. If not, I’m not interested.
What are you still trying to understand?
Humans.
What role can individuals play in creating change?
Everything. We, as individuals, can create change through every little thing we do, say, and think. It starts with us, with ourselves, and then it ripples outward. There is no perfection, but every small action, every little change, every habit becomes something much bigger over time. If we all believed we were too small to make a difference, no one would ever do anything. We may be just one person, but we have to start somewhere. We are alive, here, in this moment, and it’s time to take the first step. Don’t look away anymore. What can you begin with today? It may be small. It may be imperfect. But it is something. And when that something is multiplied by millions of others, it becomes infinite.
If you could place one sentence on a billboard visible to the entire world, what would it say?
Wake Up! We’ve got it all wrong!
