What is Laughing Tree, anyway?

We had lunch today with Sam Davidson of Cool People Care (yeah, I know we’ve mentioned him a lot lately… he’s cool.). He helped us wrestle with the questions, “What exactly is Laughing Tree, anyway? What are we trying to do?” I thought you might have the same question, so let me share some things that came up in our conversation.

First, the name Laughing Tree comes from Adam’s and my surname Lofbomm. Lofbomm is an originally German name that has been changed several times over the generations so much so that the original spelling and meaning are lost to us, but our best guess (and the meaning that we like the best) is that lof=laugh and bomm=baum=tree.

It’s a good name for us and what we’re trying to create, for several reasons. Laughter is a pretty obvious one: it suggests lightheartedness, joy, mirth, pleasure, openness and ease. A tree is something alive, organic, growing, reaching and beautiful with deep roots and many branches. A tree is home for many other living organisms. That’s what we want to be as Laughing Tree.

And what are we doing here with this site? Well, our big dream is community. Physical community, ongoing dialogue and collaboration with artists and creatives who appreciate and add to the beauty around us. This site is a first step, an online dialogue that we hope to bring into the physical realm as soon and often as possible.

We have a couple of products that we’ve created and want to get out to the world, namely our Laughing Tree Lullabies CD, fine art photographs (to be available online soon), as well as some ideas in the works like illustrated books, short films and more. But the products are just one branch of Laughing Tree.

We’re going to be using this blog more and more to initiate a dialogue about creativity, music, arts– beauty in general. We want to dialogue about what other creatives are doing, how to foster more creativity in our lives, how to raise children up in a creative environment, and what good we can do with our creative minds and projects. These are not things that we know a lot about yet, but they’re things we’re interested in, and we’ll want as much interaction from you as possible, so we can all learn and grow.

So, what do you think? Are you up for a dialogue?

Laughing Tree– art for your eyes and ears. What can we create together?

-Jessica