Dear friends of the Hudson Valley and Red Bluff Study and Reflection Parks:
From the Gran Canaria Study and Reflection Park, we send you our deepest greetings, filled with affection, gratitude, and solidarity in this time of great hardship for humanity.
We are living in extremely violent and dehumanizing times, where life—in all its forms—seems to be reduced, exploited, or denied. Faced with this situation, we clearly feel that our response cannot come from fear or reaction, but rather from the Strength, Wisdom, and Goodness we have inherited from those who came before us and that we now try to embody through genuine actions.
From this common feeling, we want to express our sincere willingness to make ourselves available, from the horizontality between Parks, for whatever you consider necessary, appropriate, or inspiring at this historic moment. We speak with the aspiration to connect with the depths, where we recognize the sacredness of life that we hold within us and that we wish to care for on behalf of the humanity that will continue after us.
We feel that perhaps the time has come to send a new joint signal, born from all the Parks of the world: a silent yet powerful signal, which does not impose, which does not confront, but which clearly affirms a direction. A signal that reminds human beings that:
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- Nothing is above human life or life as a whole
- No person is above another
- Nonviolence is a conscious and creative choice
- The future remains open when we act with consistency.
We are inspired by the possibility of a shared gesture—a common time for reflection, a message, a simultaneous act, a space for silence and words—that connects the Parks to each other and, through them, to the broader human consciousness, without distinction.
From Gran Canaria, as from every point in the world where a Park stands as an internal and external reference point, we affirm our faith in the future and our decision to continue humanizing the Earth, even in the midst of uncertainty.
We remember, now more than ever, that fragment from “Rama,” in “Checkmate to the Messiah,” which Silo wrote so long ago:
“…It is from the United States (before it falls) that our message will blow… —and observing a certain discomfort in the group, he added sarcastically:— Those who look at that people with contempt would do well to remember the Galician saying: ‘God writes straight with crooked lines.’” And we feel that, out of chaos, hope can emerge.
Thus, we remain open to dialogue, exchange, and joint construction, with the certainty that when we act from the depths, life finds its course.
With deep affection, internal coherence, and a common direction that bind us together in peace, strength, and joy.
Gran Canaria Study and Reflection Park
Montaña del Palmital – Telde – Canary Islands
parquedeestudioyreflexiongc@gmail.com / WhatsApp: +34 641 857 162
https://parquegrancanaria.org/
