...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is you…

Anne Lamott
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...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way. ✨ Anne Lamott (2000). Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, p.60, Anchor
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