The Story of Pu Mu
It began as a wish… a wish to return to nature, to simplicity and freedom for the healing of my spirit. In earnest search of this I was drawn to the island of Hawaii (the Big Island) and encountered a region of primordial rainforest, a tapestry of flora and fauna residing in these islands long before the first man set foot.
Native Ohia trees, twenty-foot Hapu`u tree ferns, medicinal shrubs, native birdsong nearly extinct from these emerald islands. Original nature. True nature. The closest I felt I could be to nature's nature. Thriving at 4,000 feet above sea level on an active volcano with access to the warm pacific waters - this must be heaven!
I started a garden and ate what I grew. I fished the ocean with great reward… but still felt a void in my perspective. I became impassioned to make a pilgrimage to Japan to meet the venerable Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution (a visionary modern classic of a way of farming, and a way of life, to heal the land and the human spirit). This sensei of natural farming mentored me with the understanding that "We cannot isolate one aspect of life from another.
When we change the way we grow our food, we change our food, we change society, we change our values." With that realization I came to understand that all culture stems from agriculture; that art is a joyful celebration of the abundance that nature affords us. With this philosophy in mind, I built the Ulua Theatre as a bridge between arts and agriculture.
At Pu Mu, conservation, fishing, farming, and reforestation will be emphasized as well as the arts, to blend the aspects of conscious living, food as medicine, and the observation of nature in order to provide inspiration, education, and healing. This effort in building sensitivity, awareness, and diversity lays the foundation upon which talent will be enriched, future generations educated, and global concerns addressed. This I present to listeners as Pu Mu's clear vision to propagate a sacred gratitude and respect for nature.
Aloha,
Jason Scott Lee
Native Ohia trees, twenty-foot Hapu`u tree ferns, medicinal shrubs, native birdsong nearly extinct from these emerald islands. Original nature. True nature. The closest I felt I could be to nature's nature. Thriving at 4,000 feet above sea level on an active volcano with access to the warm pacific waters - this must be heaven!
I started a garden and ate what I grew. I fished the ocean with great reward… but still felt a void in my perspective. I became impassioned to make a pilgrimage to Japan to meet the venerable Masanobu Fukuoka, author of The One Straw Revolution (a visionary modern classic of a way of farming, and a way of life, to heal the land and the human spirit). This sensei of natural farming mentored me with the understanding that "We cannot isolate one aspect of life from another.
When we change the way we grow our food, we change our food, we change society, we change our values." With that realization I came to understand that all culture stems from agriculture; that art is a joyful celebration of the abundance that nature affords us. With this philosophy in mind, I built the Ulua Theatre as a bridge between arts and agriculture.
At Pu Mu, conservation, fishing, farming, and reforestation will be emphasized as well as the arts, to blend the aspects of conscious living, food as medicine, and the observation of nature in order to provide inspiration, education, and healing. This effort in building sensitivity, awareness, and diversity lays the foundation upon which talent will be enriched, future generations educated, and global concerns addressed. This I present to listeners as Pu Mu's clear vision to propagate a sacred gratitude and respect for nature.
Aloha,
Jason Scott Lee
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