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About Us & the Ongoing Work

The Lumins procession honors our place in the world and celebrates the rare quality of life available to us in the South Puget Sound. 

 

Our aim is to bring about a positively rewarding experience that lifts the spirits of our community in a somewhat silly, ultimately fun and meaningful way that promotes our local Northwest ways of life in Tacoma and the South Puget Sound. 

 

y12: The Stellar Galactic Zü of Life

Ours is a stellar people, and 2012's Stellar Galactic Zü of Life honored and celebrated the life we share in common across our South Sound communities.  Adopting the language of humanity's mythopoeic journey, we honored traditions and celebrated the passing of goneby eras, welcoming the inspiration of life renewed.
 

As an ancient story goes, the mythic hero Zü was the rebellious son of an ancient beer goddess that boldly stripped the domineering gods of the Tablets of Destiny, which had been used to control the fates of the people they ruled.  Representing our collective power as a community to determine for ourselves the nature and direction of our lives, we openly celebrated this spirit in 2012's Lumins Festivus.  Discover the video and more here.

y14: The Soil of Earth

In every generation are those able and desiring to foresee a better world, and to direct their efforts toward the realization of something greater for themselves, their loved ones and their broader reaching community. 

 

The ceremony that took place in the Gorsuch Library in 2013 represented in a microcosm the established understanding that as individuals we can only aim so high as our eyes have seen - such heights we reach, if only with a greater company of peers. 

 

We begin 2014 in search of just such peers, fellow comrades as well determined to discover among our own the wisdom of better ways, the means of preferable practice and a greater community responsibly acknowledging its role in the creation of the world our progeny will inherit. 

 

In short, we take to the proverbial soil, we search among ourselves, reach out to others of like spirit and begin to discover horizons broadening, the material of Discovery emerging and the potential to connect with others in hopes of enriching life here for us all.

 

We will begin creating Lumins in April, will take part in Olympia's own Luminary April 25 and begin more focused preparations for Tacoma's Festivus at that time.  In the meantime, be in touch here, and consider creations of others in a gallery of years gone past - we have yet to be unable to create anything desired.  To create a lumins start here, or email us for class times.

y13: The Oceanic

2013's Oceanic theme was chosen to honor the role played in our lives by the South Puget Sound itself, which in large part defines the the character of life in our communities.  Many traditions begin with primordial waters embodying the world to come, so we included the elements that stand to constitute the essential form our celebration will take throughout the years to come.

 

We gathered at the Wright Park W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory near sundown, then proceeded through downtown Tacoma's Theater District to the Gorsuch Library via the Spanish Steps.  The library ceremony acknowleded the power of new traditions to shape our lives according to the ways of life we desire for ourselves and loved ones.   Discover more about it here.

y2112: Access is Progress

y2112 is an active, community-derived learning platform developed to provide greater perspective to those desiring a broader, more clarified awareness of the issues pertinent to South  Sound life in the context of a global paradigm.

 

Our community possesses a great amount of wisdom and understanding. Combining and sharing this wisdom, coordinating our knowledge and making it accessible to those desiring to broaden their own perspective and understanding, we begin to discover how to affect a tangibly better life for our families and loved ones in and throughout our communities.

 

100 years from now, which lifestyles do we desire to still be available for our children and a future generation?  Engaging the dialogue between industry professionals, academics and the lay population throughout the Pacific Northwest and the world, our aim is to effect a clear, readily understandable and intuitive introduction to the better ways of life that constitute the regional cultural experience peculiar to the American Pacific Northwest. 

 

Access is progress, and to make our higher knowledge accessible is to provide us the possiblity of continuing the ways of life best in keeping with our personal, local and regional better interests.  Coordinating the perspectives of teaching professionals, together with the understanding of those at the ground level actively effecting our preferable ways of life, we begin to develop an accessible approach .

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