Celebrating pleasure

Local independent filmmaker Andrea Maio has launched a creative project called “Back to Your Senses” which will document people who take risks to do what gives them pleasure — not pleasure in the guilty sense, but pleasure in the sense of what makes us happy and fulfilled. Check out the project, and consider supporting the endeavor by clicking here.

Andrea Maio has showcased her work numerous times at the Manitou Music Festival’s Arts Collage and she wrote this fine piece for the Glen Arbor Sun about the dogs of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

About the project:

“Back to Your Senses is an episodic series about people who take risks to do what gives them their greatest pleasure. We follow our quirky, 30 something year old hostess, who is trying to do just that, as she dives into the lives of Americans who are living their dreams, despite the desperate state of our economy. At a time when technology has trumped functional know-how, and our country is falling from it’s super power status, people are feeling uneasy. They realize they’ve relied on a system that may not have their backs, and that something needs to change. They are farmers, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs. They are beacons for our future: leaving the safety of what they’ve known for the sake of what they love, and showing the way for those of us brave enough to do the same. From inner city Detroit, to lush Marin County, to the isolated islands of Maine, we’ll follow pioneers that have pushed past their comfort zones to strive for a true kind of sustainability; one that uses, as its fuel, the renewable pleasure of meaningful work.”

This GlenArbor.com story was sponsored by Bay Lavender, where Cookie Thatcher prefers to think of her blends of lavender soaps as “flavors”.