The Power of Music

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As a food person and as someone who's written about food for so many years I realized all these years that I was really writing about nurturing and sustenance. That's also what music did for me and to have not had that for more than a decade since Harris died was enormously problematic for me. "I can if I close my eyes I can hear Harris saying yes do it do it you know and I love that yeah"

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week Katherine chats to Elissa Altman, author of ‘Motherland’ and more.

Katherine finds Elissa in that pre-Christmas zone, which serves as the perfect jumping-off point for a very upfront, candid and fascinating conversation on family. Specifically, Elissa's relationship with her mother. Like every family, it's a relationship which is unique and comes with its own inimitable history, and as such, informs where the two find themselves this present day, and it's a wonderful thing to hear Elissa talk openly about all that is contained within this box of memories and present moments. In addition, Elissa catches up with Katherine about the New England Winter, being a feeder, her relationship with her father, mental wellbeing, getting out of the 'swamp' via nature and its grounding properties, rediscovering and reprocessing her musical proclivities, and all with a real glint and sparkle.

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The Wintering Sessions

Katherine's writing class