"Yeah! We're not trying to be Buddha over here, we're just messy humans trying to live well in our messy lives in a messy world!" - my husband when I told him my idea for the title. This show is for people like us. We're not looking for enlightenment, we're just trying to live with open hearts. We know being human is hard, but we don't want to transcend our humanity, either. Besides, if there IS enlightenment for us regular folks, it doesn't happen by trying really hard to get it. If there IS enlightenment, it's back to work after the flash. So we keep our feet on the ground. We don't do spiritual bypassing. We don't "love and light" the hard stuff out of existence. We're not afraid to be a downer. We go low. We feel big. We welcome the darkness. We can hang with the shadows. We dig beneath the surface. We challenge the unquestioned "truths". We wade through the mess and through it all, we find hope... ...lasting, solid, workable hope we can stand on and turn to and USE in hard times. This isn't airy fairy fluff, but we're into magical, mysterious stuff. We ask tough questions. We don't need answers. We definitely don't want the EASY answers. We say the hard thing. We have unpopular opinions and we're willing to share them, in love. We are determined to live, to find strength and meaning in a beautiful, terrible world. There is a mystic in each of us. We seek the magic: in ourselves, in the world and in each other We look squarely at the suffering: in ourselves, in the world and in each other. We challenge old thinking. We are building the new world, and we let the old ways fall. We are willing to come to new agreements. We listen. We seek, though we never find: not what were expecting, anyway. We do find more, though. We do find peace. But there is no THERE - We don't arrive. But we do get there together.