¡Hola Amigos/as de Compasión!

Mother Earth likes to come out once in a while.

She wants to tell us that she loves all her children.  We are all facing drastic changes, but Mother Earth wants us to know that, if we hold compassion in our hearts, are creative, and work hard, humanity can build societies that provide all that each of us need to thrive and that are fully in harmony with the natural world.   Where there is crisis, there is opportunity.   We already know much of what we need to convert our economic systems holistically to better feed and serve all the worlds people and to be truly ecologically sustainable.  Mother Earth also reminds us that we can gain great insight from humbly studying living systems for figuring out the rest.  We just need to keep working at it, and let compassion be our guide. The job of fundamentally changing the way human world works is enormous, that is why we need the diverse talents and skills of each of us.

About this aspect of Mother Earth, this papier mache puppet was created in 2001 in Eugene Debs Cooperative House by Chris Bednash.  She comes out for a wide array of peace and ecological events around the Ann Arbor area.

Anyone can make big puppets with relatively inexpensive, even recycled materials.  Puppet-making can be a fun, community building project, as folks figure out how to construct them.  Puppets can be used to confront or amuse, dazzle and amaze, drawing the public’s attention toward the story and ideas you wish to share.  If you would like to get more information, including many free, adaptable designs, check out the awesome website of the Puppeteers’ Cooperative at http://www.gis.net/~puppetco/