Elena Brower

It's really the opposite of what it was.

You know, teaching the 10,000 people, 4,000 people, right in the center of the thing, you know, with the hair and the beauty and the clothes and all the things.

And it was so lovely.

It was lovely to be a voice there.

And it's really important to me now that that's faded and that I can do the work that I'm doing without being the center of attention.

without really needing anything from it.

That's right.

You know, I look at social media as it is right now.

I don't have disdain for it.

I really still view it as an art project for me.

I enjoy it, so I keep going.

But the Instagram is really... Do you remember when we were little and at the end of the school year we would have these sort of rectangular autograph books?

And we would give them out to everybody and everybody would sign everybody else's autograph books and we would go home and read them and pages would be folded and

It's sort of like that for me, you know, like I'm just leaving a little sort of signature of what matters to me and making it into some sort of art the best I can.

And yeah, there's still things that I want to share and offerings that I want to make.

that hopefully will reach a wide swath, in particular older women.

I'm really into giving us a level of community and direction.

People who might not otherwise be exposed to the teachings of Zen Buddhism, I find that to be so calming for my system.

Things like that, if I can share it in an effective way without being too vociferous, that's great.

It is dicey.