This past week I had the great pleasure of working with my talented friends Karin and Ricardo from Valparaiso on the creation of a new hoop-dance-music video piece about home; one of both documentation and art. At the end of the week, we’d traveled great distances with hoops and cameras in tow, through and around native trees of rainforest, homogenous pine plantations, paths big enough to hold trucks full of cut-down trees, and small enough to be fit for only the strongest of ferns and most agile of human passerby’s. We talked about home. I hooped about home. We thought many hours about how we define home, what we need in order to feel at home, and how we find and hoop our way home. I explained how my personal definition of home is a web of many special people in different places across the earth, and also- like the spider who spins a community around themselves, I am the most consistent and present definitions of home that I know. In turn, looking both outward towards connections, and also looking inward with true self-love, I can be the most present and positive as possible in my body. Additionally, aided by the constant hug and boundary-defining support of the hoop, I am aware that I hold in myself the greatest home that I can realize. Here’s a silouhoop shot captured by Ricardo on the final day of filming as the moon steadily gained attention in the darkening blue sky~ Muchas gracias Korin y Ricardo por todo. !Paz y luz a Ustedes!