about gwyn kirk: core beliefs

The earth is a miracle that sustains all life.  It is our only home.  People are connected through the air we breathe, the water we share, and the oceans that lap and crash onto our beaches. We’re nourished by sunlight and dancing, by colors and moonrise, by the food we eat, the gardens we plant, and the love we experience. We’re linked day-to-day with neighbors, family, and friends, as well as strangers, and to the world of ideas and imagination in books, music, and artwork that stretches across borders and generations. We exchange life-giving oxygen with trees and plants. Our fates are intertwined. We can offer each other a better world.

We’re connected to the past through our elders and ancestors, some known and many unknown.  I’m thankful for the support of teachers, mentors, and friends who inspire and sustain me.  I love the richness of collaborative projects and shared perspectives.  I’m happiest when I’m working with my head, heart, and hands together. 

I want my work to contribute to nurturing and re-making the connections that are severed by wasteful and exploitative economic structures, bankrupt political systems, and deadening mass media. These institutions have a strong grip and vast material resources.  To maintain themselves they have to reproduce the prejudices and domination of racism, colonialism and ethnocentrism, sexism and homophobia every day.  Ordinary people have vast intellectual and spiritual resources -- creativity, hope, constructive visions, practical skills, life experience, and the conviction that things can and must be organized differently, based on justice and love.  I want to stand with the many thousands of people who are actively imagining this world and bringing it into being or safeguarding those parts that already exist.

This website is an invitation to dialogue and exchange. Let me know what you find useful, or send me information and perspectives that will be useful to me.