What Is Harmony?

Harmony is an extremely valuable concept to understand and utilize for The Woodland Lantern. Harmony is where all parties are in equal safe enjoyable interaction and where symbiosis is expressed fluently. I like to relate “Harmony” with a musical orchestra. There is a common goal and/or goals of an orchestra. In order to accomplish those goals, each individual musician must work well in tune with the other individual musicians/teammates so they can have a kick ass show. Harmony amongst the ecological web is a necessity for life to flourish on this planet.

The goal with The Woodland Lantern is to have many independent individuals working and helping eachother grow in harmony together with a common admiration for design and education while making the world a brighter place. So the woodworkers would be in quality relationships with the blacksmiths and vice versa. The woodworkers can provide the finished handles on the forged hammer heads that the backsmiths created while wearing aprons from the seamstresses so their chest didn’t get burned by the heat of a hot coal or sparking metal. Now the streamstresses have a new workshop because of the hammer that the woodworkers and blacksmiths provided to the house builders. Harmony. Where all parties are in safe, joyful interaction that benefits everyone involved. All the main themes of The Woodland Lantern [TWL] all weave into eachother and play off one another. This is the beauty of Harmony.

Harmony will be observed at TWL with lens looking at forest ecology. Understanding the nature of how healthy vibrant forest relationships work, will dramatically increase our understanding of harmonic interactions with individuals apart of this design platform known as The Woodland Lantern or TWL for short. A simple forest gnome understands harmonic interaction with the land he shares with his community. The Woodland Gnome to me is the ultimate symbolism for harmony, especially here at The Woodland Lantern.