The Gypsy Spirit Mission, a global collaboration dedicated to creativity and the promotion of artistic expression, had its beginnings in cyberspace. An outgrowth of a decade-old desire to organize a "storyteller's journal end event series," it emerged spontaneously when I met an old friend in Prague, Czech Republic. We had been part of a unique expatriate community there whose alumni now maintain contact from all over the world. My reunion with this friend led to a lamentation of the lost days when creativity and productivity were unhampered by parenting, financial obligations, and geographical isolation.

I proposed - in the form of a challenge -- that we revive our flagging creativity by simply renewing our commitment and rediscovering the atmosphere of mutual support we had once known. And thus in the form of an e-mail transmission the Gypsy Spirit Mission's Cyber-Salon was born.   Learn more.