Raison d'Etre....

Let me try to bring a few things together from recent essays here....

Our reason for being, Raison d'Etre, from all I know, is to put something back on the planet....a company, an institution, a school, a project, a family, a child, a tree, a work of art...and more.  And we are here to help each other.  When we are sincere at these things in our life, I believe greater forces move in the universe to help us.

It is also about acting boldly in the very face of fear and in the midst of chaos....
And, it is about going out there sometimes, in fact, often, boldly within, but modestly from the outside...

It is about all of us finding within the deep passion of creativity and shaping that into form and putting it out into media so others can enjoy and the world can move forward with art.  The art within must come out, we can help each other...it is the expression of a divine gift.  It takes many forms, from the pure arts to business and commercial venues where art is shared with the world.  Schools are a great vehicle for that expression and transmittal.  Business schools must search for their unique way to express and be part of the greater world of expression.  Art schools, music and performing arts schools and media schools have found their platforms and enrich the world.  Business schools must now search and craft their unique platform.  Our CIBU is doing that now and is at the leading edge.  Through the CIBU Arts Initiative 2010-2011: The Art Within Us Project, CIBU is forging this exciting venue.  An entire, exciting world will unfold.

Thus, it is an institutional and an individual imperative.  It is our destiny and legacy all in one.

Amelia Earhart showed us that actions speak louder than words....and that some "art" is just bravery in being a pioneer, in her case, it was her life that she sacrificed to make her artist's statement.  She is one of my greatest heroes and innovators....I really do not know what happened to her, and I cannot pretend to know, but I wrote that I feel her spirit alive out there, somewhere in the wide expanses of the Pacific....if only her spirit lives forever, that is a gift.

Thought I should try to pull a few things together before taking off again for Europe and soon Asia.  We are not a cosmic accident, though our time here is but a cosmic moment.  Our living and loving is our gift to ourselves, each other, and to our time...every moment counts...huge surprises await....

Soon, again, the sunrise East on the California mountains and the smell of fresh coffee....