I was always the one helping my mother to repot our plants, growing up. I liked taking out weeds in our garden and raking the yard. Growing up in the 80’s in Sweden, was also when the environmental movement took root. We started recycling paper and cardboard, and my brother recycled bottles for coins in return. We also started using less toxic detergents, that my mother loved to curb our allergies and sensitivities with. Besides this and caring for my bunny, I loved horseback riding and enjoyed our little hikes in the forest. I dreamt of being able to ride like a Native American Indian and wanted to be a Shaman, the way my grandfather had a drawing with, on his wall, that I later inherited. I often felt one with the horse, and read two books about horse psychology in an effort to become like the Horse Whisperer. We never threw trash on the ground and while I was still a teenager, I did feel certain that voting no against nuclear power plants would be the best option for our future. My future. We lived close by one, for a while, close enough to remember the drills with our phones ringing to warn us of any leaks in preparation. I felt one with nature.

In the 90’s, I worked for TetraPak as a mail-runner and after continuing to take my first year in Communication and Media basics, I got to intern at their information department, as their first one. One afternoon, I got to join them for a meeting at a remote location, filled with acres of peat, cultivating for years into becoming organic soil. A soil, I still use, for all my plants. No wonder then, that I also used recycled paper for my invoices and to my first set of business cards, as a freelancing copywriter! Raw and light brown, with a logo in green. I also became a vegetarian and started to eat organic. And went to San Francisco to see if I could move there, where much of the Green and Women Liberations movements had begun, but also understood it would be hard with English as my second language to pursue copywriting.

In 2004, at my first visit to Hawaii, I also visited Big Island and saw the Volcano spit her lava and how land was created. It gave me a spiritual experience that opened up for deepening my connection to earth and gain an understanding of how we must relate to the land, to really be part of the eco-system more consciously. In 2005, this cultural pursuit became solidified by learning how to dance Hula, upon West African dance. It was also now that I began to only use hair-, face-, and body-care products, made of biological ingredients. And learning more about how important the ocean also is.

In 2008, I became a member of the Green Environmental Party in Sweden, after having been loyal to WWF all my life. And I had just started to ponder, if I should pursue a political career, to work towards making green standards become the norm, when I was made homeless after having to wait for years to fix my teeth. I moved back to the United States instead and had hoped to build and start Telluselle Living Center in San Francisco in 2011, after becoming a member of Kanu Hawaii and getting a tip from one of their founders about Bamboo Living.

I had no idea, that living healthy and eco-friendly with a spiritual touch, would ever be considered something politically inflammable, that has become something to overcome first. But luckily, after beginning to learn how to dance the Isadora Duncan style and understanding how this cultural activist of her time, also started off her creativity by dancing in nature, it has enabled me to add an important piece to the puzzle. Isadora was of course, born in San Francisco, letting me come full circle, with a focus on creating a sustainable society through the arts.