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Learn the Music of Language to Float in Communal Space
It’s perfectly possible to not know a word of a language, but to seem as if you know the language and culture well if you know the symbolic utterances and music of a language…it’s rhythms, rising and falling.
If you know when to make sounds of sympathy and appreciation.
If you know when to exclaim in amazement [...]
Shared Story—Martin Prechtel: Remembered through being in the story together
“They welcomed me by letting me know that they hadn’t let me go. I was remembered. As far as they were concerned, no matter how far I roamed or what we’d had to do to survive, I was still in the story with them, and had never actually left the village.”
Martín Prechtel
Artist
Writer
Musician
Storyteller
Teacher
Healer
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