As I sat there, a hummingbird flew straight toward me from the direction of the valley below me. It hovered in front of my left shoulder for a moment, realized that my burgundy red shirt was not a gigantic flower. And just as quickly flew up in a way I had been listening to the waters flowing in the valley below. And because of my experience of growing up in the influence of the white American Evangelical Christian media industrial complex, because my father owned a Christian bookstore in the bedroom community of two Austin in the Metro Vancouver area. I couldn't help but contemplate the words of Psalm 23 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me that prepares to table before me in the presence of mine enemies. That will notice my head with oil, my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Back in 1991 Back in 1991, I named my company Bauhaus visual communications my vision was to build the house of love. The Bauhaus built a society on the ideas of a new vision of a collective future built on the technologies of the modern industrial world. They inadvertently created a world that took their socialist utopian vision of an architecture of the people up by the people, and instead fashioned an authoritarian capitalist industrial economy, dependent on oil and gas to move humans around their modern minimalistic steel glass and concrete skyscrapers and cities. To me, these forests of human architecture were cold, lifeless, and oppressive landscapes that turned our living organic world into dead lifeless machines for exclusively human habitation. I was convinced we needed a new architecture, and that new architecture would need to grow from the new habits, rituals, and practices that formed from the hearts of human beings that had hardened the pathways and structures and now covered the earth with highways, cities and airports, cruise ships, and tankers for hauling the products of human industry. It has taken five centuries of colonization to manifest this world. Our hardened hearts have been clogging the arteries of the heart of Mother Earth for far too long. To become healthy, we would need to slow down, rest and heal. This hummingbird seemed to me a symbol of the need to recognize our need to reconnect to ourselves to others and to the earth to build a world that loves itself. Veronica's project had become my project. That evening, Mark Smith called me he informed me of what happened the day before Roxy show today. And Nicholas Alcala and Nico's girlfriend, Amanda Joy Gilbert, had been in a catastrophic head on collision. We wondered what to do. Roxy and Nico had been leading the design studio over the past couple of years. They hold the vision for a movement led by artists who are engaging in the work of culture creation, and systematic and systemic change to respond to multiple systemic crises. The vision is a sort of new Bauhaus. We are calling all creators fine artists, designers, performance philosophers, ecologists, systems thinkers, to co create in service of a world that works for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone. In the words of Buckminster Fuller. We would be realizing Buckminster Fuller's vision of a design science decade from the 1960s and 1970s. And reimagining that effort for our current context. Creators in the studio apply their whole system's knowledge to create revolutionary art, experiences and messages for a regenerative future that works for 100% of life. Roxy and Nico and Amanda Joy had been severely injured in the motor vehicle accident in Ibiza, Spain. The shock and trauma of this news was devastating to our community. Mark reached out to his friend Claire headin, and I reached out to my friend Veronica Anderson, we recognized that our fledgling organization had not had enough time and energy and resources to be able to create the resilient structure needed to be able to easily recover from this catastrophe. The best we could do at this moment was to come alongside our injured and suffering friends and their families in this moment of tragic loss. We learned that the occupant of the other vehicle that had been involved in the in the accident was deceased. We formed a group called the DSS center key and met to think through the best way forward. As we gathered in support of the grief and recovery process. We gathered Wednesday of that week, we were amazed that Roxie and Nico were able to join those of us from the friends and family and the two core cohorts of the design science studio, who could attend on the online zoom session to support Roxy Nico and Amanda joy, who was in a common in a coma at that point. In that meeting, I recall the moment when Roxy had been in conversation with one of our visionary leaders in a design science studio session. Roxy had looked out her window and explained that there was a hummingbird hovering there Roxy's conversational partner said the hummingbird is my spirit animal. I added that slowing down rest and healing is our gift to the world. These last four months of slowing down, resting and healing had been a confirmation that the hummingbird was right. By connecting to the earth, we can connect to ourselves and connect to each other to make a world that loves itself. I'm excited to announce that that the design science studio is alive and well. We are working in partnership with the Institute for aliveness. To celebrate a creativity festival, featuring workshops led by some of our design science studio creators, artists and changemakers. I will be offering a workshop on the participatory process of growing senses on co creation and collective proprioception. So we can learn how to navigate metaphysical gravity. And my friend Veronica Anderson, will be guiding us in a workshop on our inner architecture and outer architecture. We would love it if you could join us in making a world that loves itself.