Singer/songwriter Hannah Cohen displays on how the Catskills’ quiet magnificence and pure marvel helped her reconnect with herself, plant new roots, and create her new album, ‘Earthstar Mountain’ – a breathtakingly stunning file born of stillness, readability, therapeutic, and residential.
‘Earthstar Mountain’ – Hannah Cohen
Three hours north of New York Metropolis lies a spot of pure magnificence and quiet marvel: Rolling hills blanketed in hemlock and maple, winding streams slicing by means of mossy ravines, and stars so vivid they really feel shut sufficient to the touch. The Catskills have lengthy referred to as to artists, seekers, and storytellers — not for his or her spectacle, however for his or her stillness. It’s right here, surrounded by timber and time, that singer/songwriter Hannah Cohen discovered her house. And it’s right here that her fourth album, Earthstar Mountain, took root.
Hannah Cohen has all the time made music with feeling. From the dreamy melancholy of 2015’s Pleasure Boy to the wealthy, bittersweet heat of 2019’s Welcome House, her songs have lengthy inhabited that liminal house between craving and peace, reflection and launch. However on Earthstar Mountain, the New York-born, Catskills-based artist reaches new ranges of readability, presence, and private depth. “Something can imply all the pieces,” she displays at one level in our dialog, describing a file that’s as a lot about embracing the exterior world as it’s in regards to the inner one.
I feel I do know you effectively
Not less than I feel I do
An ideal stranger there
Sleeping in my bed room
I do know who you’re, it’s true
A part of me is all the time half of you
I, I see it now, clear as day
Using out on our personal waves, waves, waves
– “Earthstar,” Hannah Cohen
Launched March 28th through Congrats Data, Earthstar Mountain is Cohen’s first album in six years, and in some ways it’s a reintroduction. Named for a uncommon star-shaped mushroom she discovered rising on the land she now calls house, it’s a deeply rooted assortment of songs written amidst the timber and trails of the Hudson Valley, formed by her environment and lived expertise. The album is a tribute to nature and the gradual churn of time, to grief and love, to the lives we construct and the seasons that form us. Written and recorded in between working classes at Flying Cloud Recordings – the residential studio she co-founded along with her associate, Sam Evian – it’s as immersive because the forest it was born in.
“There’s simply this power right here that’s plain,” Cohen says of the Catskills. She’s lived within the area for the previous 5 years, and its affect permeates each word and lyric on Earthstar Mountain. Whether or not she’s singing in regards to the quiet ache of loss on “Mountain,” basking within the tender psychedelia of “Una Spiaggia,” or conjuring a disco dreamscape in “Summer time Sweat,” her music shimmers with place and objective.
In dialog, Cohen is considerate, humorous, and candid. She’s equal components artist and host — somebody who’s as enthusiastic about scavenging for mushrooms and cooking a nourishing meal as she is about crafting a track. Her reflections on nature, grief, neighborhood, and creativity are woven with the identical grace and humanity that echo by means of her music. Dwelling up right here adjustments your perspective, she explains. “You’re residing and experiencing issues, and it comes out in the way in which it must.”
At Flying Cloud, Cohen and Evian have cultivated one thing of a sanctuary for artists — an area the place musicians come to work, relaxation, eat effectively, and immerse themselves within the music-making course of. That spirit of care and collaboration flows into Earthstar Mountain, a file made with intention and love, and with a deep respect for the land that impressed it. “We’re the brand new stewards of this place,” she says. “There’s all the time one thing to be taught from the mountain.”
In the end, Earthstar Mountain is a luminous portrait of an artist embracing her full self — the quiet and the chaos, the grief and the enjoyment, the solitude and the connection. It’s a reminder, in Cohen’s personal phrases, that “there’s magnificence in all places. Something can imply all the pieces.”
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“Earthstar” – Hannah Cohen
A CONVERSATION WITH HANNAH COHEN
Atwood Journal: Hannah, you referred to as Earthstar Mountain a love letter to the Catskills and the interconnectedness of all issues. And I feel that is an ideal place to begin. Hannah, are you able to share somewhat in regards to the story behind this album?
Hannah Cohen: Nicely, I feel this… Nicely, there’s a lot. I spent the final couple of years penning this file and piecing collectively the file in between type of touring. I tour, my associate excursions, Sam Evian. We additionally run a recording studio and have lots of classes. So kind of this revolving door of artists and musicians which might be developing right here. So I really feel like I’m making excuses as to why it’s taken me so lengthy to place out a brand new file, however life occurs. And so, yeah, this file, it began to actually type of take form over the past yr and a half. Final yr, 2024, I wrote extra songs that saved type of pushing different older songs off the file and songs like “Mountain” and “Earthstar” or let’s say “Una Spiaggia,” which was a canopy. These final three songs had been like a puzzle piece to the file, actually type of making sense to me and feeling prefer it was completed. So I wanted that point to marinate and… Yeah, for all times. I wanted that point for all times. They are saying, like, whenever you’re not writing, you’re writing, like, though when you’re not engaged on stuff, the physique retains rating and also you’re residing and experiencing issues, and it comes out in its approach that it must.
That is your first album in six years since Welcome House. You moved to the Catskills from town in 2019, and have been residing there for 5 to 6 years as effectively. How are these two issues intertwined for you – the album and your new atmosphere, your new house?
Hannah Cohen: Nicely, I feel my writing course of simply… I imply, I feel the Catskills has affected me fairly deeply, profoundly. The best way that I expertise time is totally totally different as a result of I’m so immersed. I dwell within the mountains. I’m so immersed within the mountains and seeing the seasons change and watching patterns occur over time and attending to witness that in the identical place, I’m so in awe of this place. And so it’s actually modified the way in which that I take into consideration something.
The Catskills, and being so immersed in nature, has simply modified my outlook and perspective fully. So I suppose, sure, it’s a love letter. The Catskills, it’s a thanks to the Catskills, I suppose, is one other approach of claiming it. It’s being deeply grateful for having the ability to dwell right here.
What’s your discovery story for the Catskills and for the Hudson Valley? How did you discover this space and fall in love with it?
Hannah Cohen: Nicely, so Sam and I got here up collectively. We kind of fell in love upstate. We began courting, and I had these superb buddies who had this stunning seventeenth century previous stone home, like, stone farmhouse. They’re of their 70s. They’re kind of like my adoptive like East Coast dad and mom, however they’re additionally actually shut buddies of mine, Jay and Jackie, and Jay’s a director and taught at NYU and simply turned a very shut buddy of mine and Jackie as effectively. And so Sam and I’d come up on weekends from town to come back stick with them, and we’d go for hikes within the space, come to the Gunks and Lake Minnewaska and do all these mountain climbing trails. So we actually fell in love with the realm that approach. And in order that was nearly 9 years in the past. After which Sam ended up renting a home to make a file within the city that we dwell in now. We simply fell in love. So it was actually Sam saying, if we do transfer up right here, it needs to be on this one city or it needs to be on this normal space near the reservoir.
There’s simply this power right here that’s simply plain. So Sam made a file on this home the place all of us stayed in for like two and a half, three weeks and made a file in. And it kind of was the blueprint for what we do now at our studio the place a band comes, we prepare dinner all of the meals there, kind of streamline the method, go mountain climbing, go swimming, I imply, relying on what season you’re in. However we nonetheless go within the creek within the winter. So it was actually this factor that Sam and I kind of found collectively. Or not, we didn’t uncover the Catskills. We discovered ourselves actually being drawn to this place and music flowing and having the ability to have house and being completely submerged in nature, within the woods. We had been on this home. The driveway was two miles lengthy into this by means of a ravine. And then you definitely finish. It was simply so magical. It’s similar to, it’s plain that it’s simply magic right here. And everybody who comes right here, who visits is seeking to purchase a home up right here on the street or shut by. I’ve had so many artists and buddies which have moved up since coming to go to.
There’s additionally this factor the place residing in New York, you lived in New York for 10 years, proper? It kind of shifts your pondering in your, I can’t dwell anyplace else. I can’t do work anyplace else. Or that’s the way it kind of had this chokehold on me the place I felt like I couldn’t dwell anyplace else as a result of the tradition and the bustle of town. However I didn’t understand that it truly wasn’t actually suited to me, and I used to be overstimulated and… Yeah. So now after I go into town it’s like, an excessive amount of for me. And I ask myself, how the f* did I dwell right here so lengthy? However you turn out to be so desensitized to it.
And naturally, I nonetheless love town. And after I go there, I’m going and do Thai meals, I do all of the superb meals that I can’t stand up right here a lot, however we find yourself making it ourselves. However, yeah, now I actually benefit from town after I go there and I’m going to reveals or go to museums and I get the yummy meals after which come again to the quiet of the mountain.
Hannah Cohen: Yeah. I had a small inkling, however I didn’t know what number of heavy hitters had been residing up right here. And I imply, it didn’t… That didn’t shift our wanting to maneuver up right here as a result of these persons are up right here. However it’s simply everyone seems to be drawn to this space. And I additionally assume as a result of it’s so near town that you may nonetheless faucet into that and never really feel fully… However there’s such an unbelievable and neighborhood of artists and musicians and inventive individuals who dwell up right here. However there’s additionally… Yeah, it’s so like, I don’t actually need town anymore. I’ve all of the tradition that I not… Nicely, I don’t learn about that, however I’ve lots of tradition additionally, as a result of we run a recording studio, so many musicians and other people from town and all the world are developing. We’ve got classes from bands coming from Mexico Metropolis, bands coming from France, bands coming from LA and Chicago type of throughout. So we nonetheless really feel very, I don’t know, tied to tradition and other people.
However we’re in a rural space for positive. Like, there are… The Bears are in our backwoods, however I don’t know. I’m getting misplaced. I’m getting misplaced. I might discuss in regards to the Catskills, however sure, there are lots of musicians and legendary musicians who dwell up right here. It’s very cool.
I might like to be taught somewhat bit extra Flying Cloud Recordings, as a result of that is additionally been a really large mission you and Sam have undertaken within the years since your transfer. Inform me in regards to the studio; had been you all the time occupied with working a recording studio? Was it a aspect curiosity? Or is that this a type of glad accidents that took place?
Hannah Cohen: Nicely, it’s not an accident for Sam, for positive. He’s an engineer and producer, and he was working within the metropolis at this studio referred to as Determine 8, which is a tremendous studio and lots of people work there and engineers. And it’s humorous as a result of three of the top engineers at that studio have now moved upstate and have studios.
Anyhow, so we got here up right here not by fluke. Sam all the time needed to have his personal studio. And so having the ability to afford that in New York Metropolis is type of insane and was probably not in our playing cards. So shifting upstate additionally earlier than COVID. If we had been attempting to do that now, we wouldn’t have been capable of do it. We actually just like the stuff aligned for us and in so some ways and so many various occasions from us shifting up right here.
In order that was actually Sam wanting to begin his personal studio. And I like cooking. I like internet hosting. I like taking care of individuals. My kind of bread-and-butter job over the past 20 years since shifting to New York was all the time in childcare as a nanny for newborns until… I’ll care for newborns to previous individuals till seniors. So it’s simply in my nature. So it kind of was this type of good match the place I can prepare dinner for giant teams and I like taking care of individuals and Sam additionally loves doing that. And so it’s kind of like a artist retreat. And in addition, as a result of we’re musicians, we all know what musicians and artists want as a result of we’re delicate to that.
So I prepare dinner meals that’s not going to be like a Session Ender the place everybody’s too drained to file. So we simply prepare dinner wholesome meals, preserve the classes shifting, but in addition have enjoyable snacks like BjornQorn. Do you want BjornQorn? I like turning individuals onto BjornQorn. That’s all the time like… Are you aware that chocolate firm, Fruition, they’re up right here. So we wish to have native issues to love spotlight our different Catskillian buddies. I imply, they’re not my buddies, however I’d like to be buddies with the BjornQorn and Fruition individuals. However we stack these closely right here. So, yeah, constructing a studio. There was a barn on the property that we fully renovated. I imply, the barn simply had… It was similar to a shell of a barn and it had a gravel ground. And so we ended up pouring cement basis, reframing it, residing it, and ending the inside. In order that took a pair years. We had been in levels.
The studio wasn’t in our home for a really very long time till two years in the past. It’s two years in the past. Two and a half years in the past, we moved. We lastly completed the studio barn. And there’s an condo upstairs that has two bedrooms, however can sleep like 4 or 5 individuals. So, yeah, it’s been lots of work and likewise type of being the brand new, what’s the phrase referred to as whenever you transfer to a house and also you’re the brand new stewards. We’re the brand new stewards of the land right here. And the home was inbuilt 1974, so there was type of lots of updates and issues. And the home wanted lots of love. And the property, we’re on six acres, so we’ve been working rather a lot. There was rather a lot to get into right here. And we’re by no means going to be completed. There’s all the time going to be one thing that we have to do, and I didn’t understand that a part of it. The seasons are hardcore up right here, and it’s lots of work!
You talked about the driveway dimension earlier. We had a really chilly, snowy winter. I am positive that made for lots of snow-ins.
Hannah Cohen: Yeah, yeah. We now have a system, however some stuff you simply can’t actually compete with, like snow after which rain in a single day, that’s a freeze. After which all the pieces is an ice-skating rink and also you’re completely f*ed. There have been a pair weeks there which had been uncomfortable, however we figured it out, and also you simply type of scoot down the driveway and park your automotive on the backside of the driveway.
You have been a recording artist for possibly 15 or so years now. What has working the studio and dealing with all these superb artists taught you? Have you ever been capable of incorporate any of that into this new file?
Hannah Cohen: I feel having so many individuals right here, which taught me to make use of my time correctly and to only not be so valuable, possibly, like preserve making and never… I imply, I suppose, I didn’t actually take that recommendation till now as a result of it took me so lengthy to make my final file. However I feel with the following file, I feel I wish to file it within the fall or early subsequent yr, so put one thing out rather a lot sooner.
Yeah, I feel seeing so many musicians come by means of our door simply makes me really feel part of the neighborhood and that artists are… That we’ve to guard artists in any respect prices and that artists and musicians and writers are actually delicate individuals. It’s a reminder that there’s a kind of one who’s drawn to this type of work. And that’s type of comforting for me to see that all the time that all of us type of communicate a distinct language. Not a distinct language, however there’s this language that there’s a connectedness with being an artist and that sensitivity that’s actually particular.
Let’s carry it again to the music now. I can perceive, as a result of I’ve felt it myself, how residing up right here adjustments an individual – it adjustments your perspective. You be taught a lot about your self, about residing and being on this new atmosphere. How do you are feeling Earthstar Mountain reintroduces you and captures your artistry now, particularly in comparison with Welcome House and Pleasure Boy’?
Hannah Cohen: I feel my songwriting has shifted, my perspective has shifted, and I feel I’m happy with lots of the songs. If you happen to type of dig into them, there’s a looking occurring there. However there’s additionally type of a humorousness in there if you could find it. I hope that there’s one thing for everybody on this file. I actually really feel that approach as a result of we’re bringing lots of totally different components taking place and several types of songs. So it’s a combined bag for positive. However I feel in that approach, there’s one thing for everybody on this file.
You shared somewhat bit in regards to the title of the album itself. And there are, after all, songs named “Earthstar” and “Mountain” – though they’re the introduced the opposite approach round on the observe itemizing, which I discovered cute. What is the significance of the identify, Earthstar Mountain?
Hannah Cohen: Nicely, the Earth stars are these mushrooms that I discovered on the bottom of our mountain that we dwell on. So after I was attempting to consider the file or what it needed to name it, it was like songs that got here from ‘Earthstar Mountain’, they did come from this “Mountain”. I wrote them right here on the “Mountain” right here. So, I imply, I feel it’s type of enjoyable naming the place the place you reside your personal type of pet identify. And there’s lots of mushrooms that develop on this mountain. And I discovered these unbelievable earth star mushrooms that I had by no means kind of… I’d by no means seen earlier than or heard about. And so they type of appear to be they’re from one other planet. And so I used to be actually impressed by that. And I believed “Earthstar” is such an exquisite phrase. In order that’s the place Earthstar Mountain got here from. After which I used to be attempting to consider titles, after which if I mixed two songs, like two actually essential songs to me on the file, which is “Earthstar” and “Mountain,” so I simply mixed them, merged them.
I had by no means heard of Earth stars earlier than your album, earlier than I began digging. Are they edible?
Hannah Cohen: The native individuals of the realm used to make use of them in a tincture for lung well being, presumably. I ought to look into that extra, however I did learn that.
However we have not eaten them.
Hannah Cohen: No, I’ve not eaten them. I solely eat the oyster mushrooms, Maitake mushrooms, chanterelles. And I type of simply follow these ones as a result of there’s the cinnabar ones, however these look near a toxic one. So I don’t f* with these – like, no thanks.
I don’t care. I’ll go to the identical tree that my mushroom forager buddy recognized and stated, these are nice. I’ll go to that tree yearly and I’ll simply take from that one. That’s advantageous. However no, I can determine a bunch of mushrooms now. And that… I imply, it’s simply so enjoyable studying about all of the native and invasive and no matter species which might be right here. It’s so enjoyable to have the ability to determine a witch-hazel tree or an oak tree versus a maple tree or a birch or a river birch. There’s simply a lot that you may get into right here. Like, do you know that in New York State you will get… Ginger grows right here?
Native ginger, like pure ginger?!
Hannah Cohen: Native ginger, yeah! It grows right here. You’ll be able to harvest it in August. It’s so loopy. And that’s simply rising right here naturally. It grows wild, and it’s a distinct kind of ginger, but it surely’s ginger. It’s not just like the ginger that you just get from Southeast Asia or no matter – however there’s so many issues which might be simply rising right here that you need to use in your on a regular basis life. It’s so cool.
That is completely superior. You launched this album earlier this yr with the title observe, “Earthstar.” You stated that this is among the two most essential songs for you on the album. It is definitely a particular one to me, and I’ve actually come to cherish it as effectively. What is the significance of this track, and may you share somewhat bit extra why it means a lot to you?
Hannah Cohen: With all my writing, for me personally, it’s like this stream-of-consciousness and remedy. Like lyrics come out as I’m writing a melody and I shock myself typically with issues that come out that I’ve been brewing on. And there’s the query of actually truly realizing the one who you’re sleeping subsequent to and that concept for anyone, you by no means actually know. And there’s the uncertainty of simply life basically, and I feel sonically, that track, simply the manufacturing of it, it was simply this course that I needed the file to enter as a extra just like the flutes and the synths and the way watery and the dreamscape, I actually felt strongly about. So, yeah, I feel, in any relationship, you’re so in tune with somebody and you realize them higher than they know themselves. And there’s… However there’s nonetheless components of someone that you just’ll by no means actually know. And that’s stunning and likewise scary.
The opposite favourite track you talked about, after all, is “Mountain.” Candidly, between these two, “Mountain” is the winner for me, personally; I like a slower, brooding, type of soulful observe myself. And after I hearken to that track, it instantly conjures up Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac.
Hannah Cohen: Oh, 100%.
“Mountain” simply shares that heat, that tenderness, the warmth of your voice towards the warmth of these devices is de facto highly effective. How did that track come to be, and what makes it particular for you as effectively?
Hannah Cohen: It’s onerous for me to speak about as a result of I misplaced a buddy actually out of the blue, and he was actually particular to me. And it was my approach of type of processing that in a approach. And possibly in a approach, whenever you lose somebody out of nowhere, you’re nonetheless… Your nervous system remains to be connected to them and linked to them and your nervous system remains to be kind of trying to find them. And so in a approach, you all the time want the issues that you possibly can have stated to them or that you just wish to say to them. And so I feel that was my approach of type of coping with or like having the ability to specific the grief that I used to be experiencing. I do know it’s like, I like that track. So stunning. After which it’s wish to know the backstory of it’s about shedding someone.
I imply, I feel you possibly can inform within the lyrics. However yeah, it’s about simply how grief may be so pervasive and it will probably really feel like you possibly can’t escape it in a approach. However that was my approach of shifting by means of it in a approach, for positive. However there’s undoubtedly some Fleetwood Mac. Plenty of Fleetwood Mac power in there, which is reassuring. I feel that’s like… It’s like a welcome sound in there may be like, you’re like, oh, I like that sound as a result of we wouldn’t act.
I’m so, so sorry to your loss. I really do assume that probably the most stunning songs ever made are typically about grief and dealing by means of that. And the way higher to honor a late cherished one which with an exquisite track? I feel it is a loving tribute, and I can not wait, now that I do know extra about it, to return to it once more and expertise it with that recent gentle.
Clearly, I discussed Fleetwood Mac as simply an affect that I felt I used to be listening to, however –
Hannah Cohen: No, it’s 100% there.
Did you might have some other North stars when making this music?
Hannah Cohen: Nicely, we listened to lots of Sly and the Household Stone, Shuggie Otis, Dusty Springfield. A track on the file is called after Dusty, the track “Dusty.” And Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Luiz Bonfá. There’s lots of… I’ve lots of influences. It’s like lots of Brazilian. It’s instrumental music, movie scores, Morricone. I listened to this Italian singer, Mina. She was making music in 50s, 60s… 60s, 70s, 80s, nonetheless into the Nineties into early 2000, possibly. I hearken to Turkish folks, psych… I hearken to all the pieces. Hearken to jazz. I like Coltrane. I like all people. I hearken to it additionally. There’s lots of influences there that’s lengthy and eternal.
Songs like “Una Spiaggia” and “Dusty” have an actual psychedelic affect harkening again to the ‘60s… What do you assume it’s about this sound, and hat period, that basically attracted you to it? And what, for you, is the legacy of the music that you just made in Earthstar Mountain purely for your self?
Hannah Cohen: I feel why I’m so drawn to music type of which might be in different languages that I don’t perceive or instrumental music is what it permits your mind to do. It’s simply you’re focusing simply on the music and never lyrics. So having the ability to pull that type of sonic scape and have that in my music, I really feel like my lyrics can type of swim in that and never be overpowering and or not it’s groovy and have the groove and be thrilling, but in addition stress-free. Yeah, I’m nonetheless determining why I make the music that I do or I imply the… Additionally the rationale, the final two data that I’ve made that I’m probably the most happy with and actually really feel prefer it’s lastly the music that I wish to make is due to working with my associate, Sam Evian.
In order that soundscape and the manufacturing may be very a lot of his doing and course and we’re doing it collectively. I imply, I’m writing the songs, he’s producing them, however we’re engaged on it collectively and type of weaving this world the place Sam comes from a really like studied musical background the place he studied composition and he was like a heavy jazz musician from like childhood till by means of faculty. So he has this background in music that like I don’t have. Mine is like I type of wove what I used to be doing by myself and I’m self taught and so like I feel these two worlds coming collectively type of make for why my music sounds the way in which that it does.
I am such a fan of Time to Soften and Plunge, by the way in which. What I am simply studying is that you are a energy couple.
Hannah Cohen: Thanks! No, it’s humorous having your associate even be your like musical idol. Like I look as much as him a lot and I suppose I’d say I’m a fan lady too, however he’s additionally like my associate that I dwell with. So it’s prefer it’s typically you overlook and that’s additionally type of like, it’s a tough line to navigate whenever you’re writing otherwise you’re engaged on music along with your associate as a result of clearly themes are going to come back up about. However I feel it’s additionally a magnificence and a solution to speak about issues by means of music as an alternative of in a dialog. That’s how they… My music is remedy for each of us, I feel.
We talked in regards to the music, we talked about our shared love for the Catskills… Are there any songs you actually hope individuals hear upon the album’s launch?
Hannah Cohen: Nicely, there’s this track referred to as “Rag” that I like and I wrote in regards to the street that I dwell on, my neighbors, and there’s lots of different issues taking place in that track that I hope individuals dig into. “Shoe” is a favourite songwriting type of second for me. Form of all of them “Canine Years”. However yeah, I feel there’s… “Summer time Sweat” is sort of a actually enjoyable one which has lots of influences. It’s this one, Chico Buarque and Ennio Morricone, they did this file collectively. They recorded it in Italy. Chico left Brazil within the 70s when there was like lots of political stuff occurring. And he re-recorded this file and the preparations are so thrilling. And so there’s this type of second in that track the place I feel I used to be impressed by… Oh effectively, I feel I simply heard a tree fall.
And it made a sound?!
Hannah Cohen: It did, it did. It’s loopy. However yeah, that track has some actually enjoyable moments in it and it’s type of this type of disco-y type of sexier tune that I actually love. There’s one thing for everyone on this file. So I hope they pay attention from entrance to again, again to entrance.
Do you might have any favourite lyrics as a songwriter? Any moments that you just’re significantly happy with, or excited to carry to life on stage?
Hannah Cohen: In “Shoe,” it’s, “I’m not misplaced, simply type of caught. You get behind and then you definitely’re f*d.” I feel there’s this momentum in life and attempting to maintain your head above water and there’s this type of… I really feel like all people’s actually struggling to maintain their heads above water and financially, emotionally, bodily, we’re getting older and life simply retains getting more durable and more durable. I feel there’s a frustration in the place this nation goes and a concern of getting behind and issues type of come crashing down. And I really feel like all people is feeling that basically deeply that when you don’t sustain, you’re going to drown.
What have you ever taken away from creating and placing out Earthstar Mountain, and what do you hope listeners take away from this file as effectively?
Hannah Cohen: What’s my takeaway? I don’t know if I’ve actually thought of that but. I simply made it. I’m undecided the best way to reply that. My takeaway is that there’s magnificence in all places. You look there, something can imply all the pieces. That’s my takeaway, that something can imply all the pieces – and that goes to the mountains and the issues rising throughout me and witnessing rot and repeat and rebirth and the cycles of life. That’s the takeaway.
What do you advocate for first time guests to the Catskills?
Hannah Cohen: I recommend discovering your personal piece of the Catskills. There’s a lot; there’s 700,000 acres of wind up right here and forest. It’s unbelievable. There’s a lot to discover. There’s one thing for everyone up right here.
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