Dear friend,

I am in awe of the capacity humans have to create sustainable living communities that interact with nature on so many levels. I feel a lot of gratitude to be able to spend time in places like this tiny eco village in the Italian Appennine mountains, I am currently living in a terra cruda/cob house and creating in the self heating solar powered studio portrayed above, dedicating myself to creativity and living in beauty. And of course it makes me wonder about how to bring this awareness beyond this space in the work I share. Often I see that as humans we fail to consider how vital it is for us to be in constant exchange with a healthy environment and how well our whole system responds when we do. And how well the environment responds to this reciprocal living. As healthy environment I mean humans of course, but also non human species, nature, air, soil, food..

in love.

Nalini Ruha