Castlestar is a mirror facing the Highest Good. The essays, the music, the counsel, the craft, the objects. All of it exists to hold that direction in the world. Every person and organization expresses something. The question is whether what it expresses is true. Most of the time there is a gap. Between what something genuinely stands for and what it actually looks like, says, and puts into the world.

A patron is not a customer. There is no exchange here. What you give does not come back to you as a product or a service or an experience. It goes toward keeping the mirror in place.