The Influence of a Place

It’s hard to describe the experience of visiting Machu Picchu. People who’ve visited like to call it “breathtaking.” While cliché, it’s not inaccurate. How often are you standing on an Andean peak, walking through thousand-year-old ruins, looking down on the clouds? For the average person like myself, the feeling is momentous. Visiting Machu Picchu evoked the kind of awe that my childhood brain produced regularly — the kind of awe that’s since faded from my daily life…
Song Travel

Music is so powerful: it has an impact on our mood, our memory, performance, and wellbeing. Music is a language, a language of emotion. Much of the emotional significance that we find in music comes from our own life experience: we learn to associate the music we hear with the emotional environment we hear it in …
Homeland & Identity

I believe that every person’s identity consists of a variety of factors: it’s qualities, beliefs, personality, appearance, expression, self-identity (beliefs about one’s self), collective identity (the people you surround yourself with & identify with), environment, and homeland …
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