The Founding Image
What the elephants taught us
When elephants sense that one of their own is vulnerable — a new mother, a wobbly calf, an injured friend — they don't form a committee. The mothers simply move. They circle up, shoulder to shoulder, facing outward, with every calf tucked safely at the center.
Nobody assigns positions. Nobody asks whose calf it is. The circle just forms, because that's what mothers do.
Karmel saw that image years ago and never let it go. It became Momni: mothers circling up around each other's children as if they were their own. And it became this Foundation — because a circle that stops at a border was never really a circle at all.
When one of us is vulnerable, all of us circle up.