Sometimes a hat is just a hat.  But sometimes it’s more.  Sometimes a hat is a way of life, a community, an art form, a sustainable way to be alive and productive and happy and secure in the world.  In the case of the Panama hat– so famously not made in Panama– we have a kind of straw hat that can, if we ponder it a bit, provoke a fresh image for spiritual and planetary well-being.  (Read more here!) 

Weaving a world of sustainable, organic beauty in Montecristi, Ecuador (Photo by Brent Black)