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Davida Sky's avatar

Altea Narici, Thank you. Your story, with all the bridges you have created is so important and inspiring for our world today and for me.

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Lisa Kahn Schnell's avatar

My thoughts exactly! The power of music and collaboration, of listening, of story. So much here to be inspired by.

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Steve S.'s avatar

I love how you take the cello into cool, uncharted territories!

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Lisa Kahn Schnell's avatar

Literally and metaphorically! In the mountains, by the sea, backpacking and boating...AND giving voice to wild animals and their stories--and so much more. I love seeing what this beautiful instrument and its creative caretaker/partner can do.

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Deitrich Benjamin's avatar

I do experience nature as movement and often feel when I look animals in the eye they are with me totally. I have alway spoken to plant life, and feel protected and willing to protect. The wind is music to me, clouds and trees cover me with protection. And I them. Pruning is a conversation each time. I never transplant, prune or adjust without a conversation. I am so grateful for my PA yard although in AZ I had the same feeling for even sharp cactus.

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Deitrich Benjamin's avatar

Wonderful article and fascinating description of her work. I personally have been told I don't hear music, rhythms like others do. Yet when I dance I see colors, feel vibrations and hear the rhythms of my environment. When in nature, seeing and animal in the wild or even captivity (zoo) I feel and experience a bond.

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Lisa Kahn Schnell's avatar

Amazing! I love that description of how it feels to you to dance. Do you experience animals and other parts of nature in that way also?

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