The Most Meaningful Workshop We’ve Hosted
Over the years, we’ve hosted many workshops and events, some creative, others celebratory, even a few glamorous, but what happened on Monday was, without question, the most emotional and meaningful experience we’ve ever had as a team.
That afternoon, we gathered around a table with six older people from Adopta Un Abuelo, a foundation we deeply admire for their work fighting the quiet, invisible kind of loneliness many elders face, often unnoticed in a world obsessed with speed and productivity.
The idea was simple: we wanted them to feel seen, valued, and recognised as guardians of an ancestral wisdom that is slowly disappearing. So we asked them to teach us how to embroider.
With linen napkins from our Mallorca workshop, we stitched, talked, laughed, and shared the kind of presence that’s increasingly rare, but what began as a simple activity quickly turned into something deeper, a mirror held up to a culture that glorifies speed while quietly erasing the very people who brought us into it, and if we don’t change that, we risk a failure far greater than we realise.
Because we don’t just owe older people our presence out of moral obligation, for raising us, caring for us, teaching us, we also have a duty to protect the values they carry, because if we let them slip into silence, we lose the very principles we need most: patience, connection to nature, craftsmanship and community.
These are the same values we protect every day at Casa Maricruz, not only as cultural heritage, but as the foundation for a slower, fairer, more human way of living.
Thank you to Inocencia, Cementa, Flor, Flori, Juanjo, and Carmen for your time, your presence, and your stories, thank you to Adopta Un Abuelo for your essential work, even if it shouldn’t fall only on your shoulders, thank you to Cloudworks for opening your doors and making us feel at home, and thank you for reading, for caring, and for being part of this.