Carolyn North

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Nourishing the soul

Who would have imagined worlds coming together in music that set our hearts beating in new ways, mixing and matching our beauty and brilliances to make us weep, rejoice, and get up and dance?


Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit."...

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Finding home

‘Despite all obstacles, I got to make music alongside a majestic lake with friends I loved, encouraged by adults who saw promise in me and applauded for my gifts by strangers’

Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and spirit." Yesterday, I forgot - and not for the first time - that I had a soup boiling on the stove, and then I forgot that it was my turn to take out the...

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Changing seasons, changing lives

'Transformation - that's what it all seems to be about. If leaves can do it year after year, millennia after millennia, perhaps we might give it a try, too'

Autumn has come and gone here in Vermont, red and yellow leaves raining into the air, covering the brown ground with a carpet of color. Oh, it was gorgeous! I was sorry to see the green of summer go, but the process of change is its own magical performance.

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Changing seasons, changing lives

Carolyn North, a Putney resident for a little over a year, regularly writes on her website a brief piece, "like a prose poem, about the state of the world through the lens of her daily life," she says. "My purpose has been to help reassure folks that we can get through these hard times if we remember to do it together." Autumn has come and gone here in Vermont, red and yellow leaves raining into the air, covering the brown...

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