Humans naturally respond to images—words often “aren’t exact enough”—so Jackie incorporates her art background and encourages clients to connect with their intuition through images and symbols.

Thomas remains steadfast in his belief that a children's museum should be a "town square" for families—offering daily drop-in programs, free access to learning experiences, and a place where the entire family engages in the joy of learning. 

More than just a business, she’s carving out a place where people who have felt invisible and disempowered discover new possibilities of being and doing.

“Crochet helps people slow down. It’s a tactile experience that brings joy and gentleness into our fast-moving lives,” she says.

“It’s rare to have an entire curriculum just using cardboard,” Jim said. “But it reinforces”—ha—”the idea that the material doesn’t matter, the act of making does.”

Inviting spontaneity, silliness, and collaborative playfulness, modeling creativity in action. Polly’s voice rang out: “People ask me, How do you write a song? Usually I just make stuff up. And hope it works out.”

These pieces, culled simply from events and thoughts/feelings in one day, often with very little elaboration, were intensely moving. Strung together and read aloud, they felt like profound koans and/or fragments that have survived from Ancient Greece.

What if there’s a way to both disconnect and connect simultaneously?

We are narrative machines. A blessing and our kryptonite.

Play is a natural gateway to “lose your mind and come to your senses.”

“I re-learned that slowing down enough to let go of the goal and being with what simply is—a kind of intention-guided surrender—is a path of least resistance.”