• Story is medicine.
• Creativity is sacred.
• Kindness is strength.
• Wisdom belongs to every age, body, and background.
• Learning is lifelong and shared freely.
• Difference is honored as a source of resilience.
• Making (with words, hands, and heart) is holy work.
• Care—of self, of others, of Earth—is revolutionary.
• Skepticism and wonder sit at the same table.
• We leave the world gentler than we found it.
Welcome to the fire. Warm your hands. Carry the light.
