building a sound business

This week wonder | wander | world highlights a new business brand identity - EcoDeo, operating out of New York City. 

Issa Urra ia a holistic healer, trained in a variety of disciplines and practices since the 80s, mainly built on the triad foundation of yoga philosophy, shamanic practice, and Reiki empowerment. Although of course this easily extends and encompasses other healing modalities and wellness therapies. 

Greta strikes

Strike with us NYC! 

On September 20, three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC and on the two year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, young people and adults will strike all across the US and the world to demand transformative action to address the climate crisis.

Millions of us will take to the streets globally to demand justice for our present and a right to a future. In New York, we will march and rally to demand real action by our elected officials and world leaders.

botanical illustration with Lizzie Harper

Lizzie Harper is a botanical illustrator based in Britain. Her stunning realism evokes classical masters like Franz Bauer and Maria Sybilla Merian. We first found her when searching for watercolour paper reviews!

ancient adventure | Oracle Cavern, Malta

The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni is a Neolithic subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase (3300 – 3000 BC) in Maltese prehistory, located in Paola, Malta. 

The Oracle Chamber

It is among the best preserved examples of the Maltese temple building culture that also produced the Megalithic Temples and Xagħra Stone Circle. 

kintsugi | Mahala & Issa

Happy pre birthday celebrations for Mahala who is marking a new decade in her life.

Happy Labor Day weekend here in the US and for me too.

"Expansion" by Paige Bradley

As we celebrate the labors of love and those of us who labored in love to create this world we live in.

At the Met entrance for Heavenly Bodies - Summer 2018

We bow down in humble gratitude and appreciation for lives enriched by our collaborative efforts.

Urasawa Naoki: manga and Manben

wonder | wander | women really love artists with a lot of output. Somehow the work ethic is just as compelling and admirable to us as the work itself. So when we heard of a manga artist who put on a solo show in London with 400 original works, how could we resist? Urasawa Naoki, here we come!

woman of the world | Rani of Jhansi

Seventy-two years ago today, India was freed from British rule.

Queen Laxmibai, the ruler of Jhansi

Most people know that Mohandas Gandhi played a major role in the country’s struggle for independence. But so did Queen Laxmibai of Jhansi in the 19th century.

The queen, or rani, was an unconventional leader. She could read and write — very rare for a woman in that era — and she refused to abide by the norms of purdah, which concealed women behind curtains or veils, when speaking with her advisers and British officials.

Rani of Jhansi riding into battle against the British

She was widowed without a natural-born heir, and the East India Company used that as pretext to annex her kingdom. So she fled to the nearby state of Gwalior, trained an army and led it into battle against the British. She was killed in action in 1858.

In India, she is immortalized in history books, movies, songs and even nursery rhymes.

The fortress at Jhansi in about 1882