Arol, 65, is the heart and soul of the Zendik movement. Co-founder of Zendik Farm—and Wulf’s partner, lifemate and co-creator for nearly forty years—she has spent a lifetime bringing the idea

ls of this artists’ culture off the page and into fierce, vibrant reality. Arol is a leader in the best possible sense of the word—interested in everything, searching for answers to the most relevant questions of human fulfillment and survival. Her passion and toughness are legendary, as is her lack of concern for power or the trappings of office. What she is concerned with is what’s going to work for Life on planet Earth— from the richest to the poorest, from the poverty-stricken prisons of the third world to the privileged suburbs of consumer-crazed America. While these sentiments are commonly expressed—often by the very forces that work to destroy that Life—Arol has the guts, humanity and integrity to walk it like she talks it.

Arol’s overview is tremendous, and includes every aspect of our work and lives. Expanding daily upon Wulf’s enormous legacy, she pushes herself and everyone around her for more: more honesty, more intelligence, more beauty, more freedom, more compassion, more love. Her words and actions are inspirational because they are genuine—words filled with earned wisdom, actions made real through experience and rock-solid will. Social genius, teacher, philosopher, improvisational vocalist and lyricist, actor, dancer, gardener, farmer, writer, visual artist, film director, mother, grandmother, advocate for all things hopeful and free—she’s the real deal, an unstoppable force and presence.

(From Mag 56)

"The process is to find your genius, is to find what you really love to do-as Wulf said: where work becomes play. That's what happens to an artist, work becomes play. And then it becomes sublime and then you're into great Art. And that's what your life has to become.

Your life itself has to become a great work of Art. You have to become a work of Art. You have to become your own Creation. You take the experiences of your Life and you become the Creator of who you are because of those experiences. Because of what's happened to you. Because of what's happening to you every day here and now.

It's a very sublime trip to make. You've got to cross the line. You've got to stop thinking of Life in ordinary terms. When we go to play music, life in an ordinary sense leaves. It doesn't exist. That's why an artist does art. So they can go through Life and it's not ordinary."