Singer/songwriter Hannah Cohen displays on how the Catskills’ quiet magnificence and pure surprise helped her reconnect with herself, plant new roots, and create her new album, ‘Earthstar Mountain’ – a breathtakingly lovely document 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 surprise: Rolling hills blanketed in hemlock and maple, winding streams slicing by means of mossy ravines, and stars so shiny they really feel shut sufficient to the touch. The Catskills have lengthy known 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 dwelling. 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 Dwelling, 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 every part,” she displays at one level in our dialog, describing a document that’s as a lot about embracing the exterior world as it’s concerning the inner one.
I feel I do know you effectively
At the very least I feel I do
An ideal stranger there
Sleeping in my bed room
I do know who you might be, it’s true
A part of me is all the time half of you
I, I see it now, clear as day
Driving out on our personal waves, waves, waves
– “Earthstar,” Hannah Cohen
Launched March 28th by way of 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 dwelling, 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 operating periods 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 vitality 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 observe and lyric on Earthstar Mountain. Whether or not she’s singing concerning the quiet ache of loss on “Mountain,” basking within the comfortable psychedelia of “Una Spiaggia,” or conjuring a disco dreamscape in “Summer season Sweat,” her music shimmers with place and function.
In dialog, Cohen is considerate, humorous, and candid. She’s equal elements artist and host — somebody who’s as keen about scavenging for mushrooms and cooking a nourishing meal as she is about crafting a music. 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 modifications your perspective, she explains. “You’re dwelling and experiencing issues, and it comes out in the best way 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 document 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 study from the mountain.”
Finally, 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 every part.”
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“Earthstar” – Hannah Cohen
A CONVERSATION WITH HANNAH COHEN
Atwood Journal: Hannah, you known 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 concerning the story behind this album?
Hannah Cohen: Effectively, I feel this… Effectively, there’s a lot. I spent the final couple of years penning this document and piecing collectively the document in between type of touring. I tour, my associate excursions, Sam Evian. We additionally run a recording studio and have quite a lot of periods. So type of this revolving door of artists and musicians which are arising 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 document, however life occurs. And so, yeah, this document, it began to essentially type of take form during the last yr and a half. Final yr, 2024, I wrote extra songs that stored type of pushing different older songs off the document 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 document, 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, regardless that should you’re not engaged on stuff, the physique retains rating and also you’re dwelling and experiencing issues, and it comes out in its manner that it must.
That is your first album in six years since Welcome Dwelling. You moved to the Catskills from the town in 2019, and have been dwelling there for 5 to 6 years as effectively. How are these two issues intertwined for you – the album and your new setting, your new dwelling?
Hannah Cohen: Effectively, 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 reside 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 best way that I take into consideration something.
The Catskills, and being so immersed in nature, has simply modified my outlook and perspective fully. So I assume, sure, it’s a love letter. The Catskills, it’s a thanks to the Catskills, I assume, is one other manner of claiming it. It’s being deeply grateful for having the ability to reside 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: Effectively, so Sam and I got here up collectively. We type of fell in love upstate. We began relationship, and I had these wonderful buddies who had this lovely seventeenth century outdated stone home, like, stone farmhouse. They’re of their 70s. They’re type of like my adoptive like East Coast mother and father, 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 good friend of mine and Jackie as effectively. And so Sam and I’d come up on weekends from the town to come back stick with them, and we might 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 world that manner. And in order that was nearly 9 years in the past. After which Sam ended up renting a home to make a document within the city that we reside 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 vitality right here that’s simply plain. So Sam made a document on this home the place all of us stayed in for like two and a half, three weeks and made a document in. And it type 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, type 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 type 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 trying to purchase a home up right here on the highway 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 dwelling in New York, you lived in New York for 10 years, proper? It type of shifts your considering in your, I can’t reside anyplace else. I can’t do work anyplace else. Or that’s the way it type of had this chokehold on me the place I felt like I couldn’t reside anyplace else as a result of the tradition and the bustle of the town. However I didn’t notice that it really wasn’t actually fitted to me, and I used to be overstimulated and… Yeah. So now after I go into the town it’s like, an excessive amount of for me. And I ask myself, how the f* did I reside right here so lengthy? However you grow to be so desensitized to it.
And naturally, I nonetheless love the town. And after I go there, I am going and do Thai meals, I do all of the wonderful 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 the town after I go there and I am going to exhibits 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 dwelling 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 the 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 artistic individuals who reside up right here. However there’s additionally… Yeah, it’s so like, I don’t actually need the town anymore. I’ve all of the tradition that I not… Effectively, I don’t find out about that, however I’ve quite a lot of tradition additionally, as a result of we run a recording studio, so many musicians and other people from the town and all the world are arising. We’ve periods 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 may discuss concerning the Catskills, however sure, there are quite a lot of musicians and legendary musicians who reside up right here. It’s very cool.
I might like to study somewhat bit extra Flying Cloud Recordings, as a result of that is additionally been a really huge undertaking you and Sam have undertaken within the years since your transfer. Inform me concerning the studio; had been you all the time taken with operating a recording studio? Was it a aspect curiosity? Or is that this a type of joyful accidents that took place?
Hannah Cohen: Effectively, 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 known 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 pinnacle 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 not likely in our playing cards. So shifting upstate additionally earlier than COVID. If we had been making an attempt to do that now, we wouldn’t have been in a position to do it. We actually just like the stuff aligned for us and in so some ways and so many alternative instances from us shifting up right here.
In order that was actually Sam wanting to begin his personal studio. And I really like cooking. I really like internet hosting. I really like taking care of folks. My type of bread-and-butter job during the last 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 outdated folks till seniors. So it’s simply in my nature. So it type of was this type of excellent match the place I can prepare dinner for giant teams and I really like taking care of folks and Sam additionally loves doing that. And so it’s type 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 document. So we simply prepare dinner wholesome meals, hold the periods shifting, but additionally have enjoyable snacks like BjornQorn. Do you want BjornQorn? I really like turning folks onto BjornQorn. That’s all the time like… Are you aware that chocolate firm, Fruition, they’re up right here. So we prefer 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 folks. 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 flooring. 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 phases.
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 condominium upstairs that has two bedrooms, however can sleep like 4 or 5 folks. So, yeah, it’s been quite a lot of work and likewise type of being the brand new, what’s the phrase known 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 in-built 1974, so there was type of quite a lot of updates and issues. And the home wanted quite a lot of love. And the property, we’re on six acres, so we’ve been working so much. There was so much 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 notice that a part of it. The seasons are hardcore up right here, and it’s quite a lot 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 belongings you simply can’t actually compete with, like snow after which rain in a single day, that’s a freeze. After which every part 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’ve got been a recording artist for perhaps 15 or so years now. What has operating the studio and dealing with all these wonderful artists taught you? Have you ever been in a position to incorporate any of that into this new document?
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, perhaps, like hold making and never… I imply, I assume, I didn’t actually take that recommendation till now as a result of it took me so lengthy to make my final document. However I feel with the following document, I feel I wish to document it within the fall or early subsequent yr, so put one thing out so much 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 now have to guard artists in any respect prices and that artists and musicians and writers are actually delicate folks. It’s a reminder that there’s a sort 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 converse 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 dwelling up right here modifications an individual – it modifications your perspective. You study a lot about your self, about dwelling and being on this new setting. How do you’re feeling Earthstar Mountain reintroduces you and captures your artistry now, particularly in comparison with Welcome Dwelling and Pleasure Boy’?
Hannah Cohen: I feel my songwriting has shifted, my perspective has shifted, and I feel I’m happy with quite a lot of the songs. When you type of dig into them, there’s a looking out occurring there. However there’s additionally type of a humorousness in there if you will discover it. I hope that there’s one thing for everybody on this document. I actually really feel that manner as a result of we’re bringing quite a lot of totally different parts occurring and several types of songs. So it’s a combined bag for positive. However I feel in that manner, there’s one thing for everybody on this document.
You shared somewhat bit concerning the title of the album itself. And there are, after all, songs named “Earthstar” and “Mountain” – though they’re the offered the opposite manner round on the observe itemizing, which I discovered cute. What is the significance of the identify, Earthstar Mountain?
Hannah Cohen: Effectively, the Earth stars are these mushrooms that I discovered on the bottom of our mountain that we reside on. So after I was making an attempt to consider the document 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 quite a lot of mushrooms that develop on this mountain. And I discovered these unbelievable earth star mushrooms that I had by no means type of… I’d by no means seen earlier than or heard about. And so they type of seem like they’re from one other planet. And so I used to be actually impressed by that. And I assumed “Earthstar” is such a phenomenal phrase. In order that’s the place Earthstar Mountain got here from. After which I used to be making an attempt to consider titles, after which if I mixed two songs, like two actually necessary songs to me on the document, 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 folks of the world used to make use of them in a tincture for lung well being, probably. 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 stick to 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 good friend recognized and stated, these are nice. I’ll go to that tree yearly and I’ll simply take from that one. That’s superb. However no, I can establish 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 are right here. It’s so enjoyable to have the ability to establish 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 may get… Ginger grows right here?
Native ginger, like pure ginger?!
Hannah Cohen: Native ginger, yeah! It grows right here. You may harvest it in August. It’s so loopy. And that’s simply rising right here naturally. It grows wild, and it’s a distinct sort of ginger, however it’s ginger. It’s not just like the ginger that you simply get from Southeast Asia or no matter – however there’s so many issues which are simply rising right here that you should utilize 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 likely one of the two most necessary songs for you on the album. It is actually a particular one to me, and I’ve actually come to cherish it as effectively. What is the significance of this music, and might 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 really figuring out 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 typically, and I feel sonically, that music, simply the manufacturing of it, it was simply this course that I needed the document 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 them higher than they know themselves. And there’s… However there’s nonetheless elements of anyone that you simply’ll by no means actually know. And that’s lovely and likewise scary.
The opposite favourite music you talked about, after all, is “Mountain.” Candidly, between these two, “Mountain” is the winner for me, personally; I really like a slower, brooding, type of soulful observe myself. And after I hearken to that music, 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 absolutely highly effective. How did that music come to be, and what makes it particular for you as effectively?
Hannah Cohen: It’s arduous for me to speak about as a result of I misplaced a good friend actually all of the sudden, and he was actually particular to me. And it was my manner of type of processing that in a manner. And perhaps in a manner, whenever you lose somebody out of nowhere, you’re nonetheless… Your nervous system continues to be hooked up to them and related to them and your nervous system continues to be type of looking for them. And so in a manner, you all the time want the issues that you would have stated to them or that you simply wish to say to them. And so I feel that was my manner of type of coping with or like having the ability to categorical the grief that I used to be experiencing. I do know it’s like, I really like that music. So lovely. After which it’s prefer to know the backstory of it’s about shedding anyone.
I imply, I feel you may inform within the lyrics. However yeah, it’s about simply how grief could be so pervasive and it could really feel like you may’t escape it in a manner. However that was my manner of shifting by means of it in a manner, for positive. However there’s undoubtedly some Fleetwood Mac. A lot of Fleetwood Mac vitality in there, which is reassuring. I feel that’s like… It’s like a welcome sound in there’s like, you’re like, oh, I like that sound as a result of we wouldn’t act.
I’m so, so sorry in your loss. I actually do assume that probably the most lovely songs ever made are usually about grief and dealing by means of that. And the way higher to honor a late cherished one which with a phenomenal music? 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 mild.
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 have got every other North stars when making this music?
Hannah Cohen: Effectively, we listened to quite a lot of Sly and the Household Stone, Shuggie Otis, Dusty Springfield. A music on the document is called after Dusty, the music “Dusty.” And Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Luiz Bonfá. There’s quite a lot of… I’ve quite a lot of influences. It’s like quite a lot 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, perhaps. I hearken to Turkish folks, psych… I hearken to every part. Hearken to jazz. I really like Coltrane. I really like all people. I hearken to it additionally. There’s quite a lot 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 actually attracted you to it? And what, for you, is the legacy of the music that you simply made in Earthstar Mountain purely for your self?
Hannah Cohen: I feel why I’m so drawn to music type of which are 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 it’s groovy and have the groove and be thrilling, but additionally stress-free. Yeah, I’m nonetheless determining why I make the music that I do or I imply the… Additionally the explanation, the final two information 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 could 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 school. 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 alone and I’m self taught and so like I feel these two worlds coming collectively type of make for why my music sounds the best way that it does.
I am such a fan of Time to Soften and Plunge, by the best way. 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 assume I’d say I’m a fan woman too, however he’s additionally like my associate that I reside with. So it’s prefer it’s typically you overlook and that’s additionally type of like, it’s a difficult line to navigate whenever you’re writing otherwise you’re engaged on music together 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 technique to discuss issues by means of music as a substitute of in a dialog. That’s how they… My music is remedy for each of us, I feel.
We talked concerning the music, we talked about our shared love for the Catskills… Are there any songs you actually hope folks hear upon the album’s launch?
Hannah Cohen: Effectively, there’s this music known as “Rag” that I really like and I wrote concerning the highway that I reside on, my neighbors, and there’s quite a lot of different issues occurring in that music that I hope folks dig into. “Shoe” is a favourite songwriting type of second for me. Sort of all of them “Canine Years”. However yeah, I feel there’s… “Summer season Sweat” is sort of a actually enjoyable one which has quite a lot of influences. It’s this one, Chico Buarque and Ennio Morricone, they did this document collectively. They recorded it in Italy. Chico left Brazil within the 70s when there was like quite a lot of political stuff occurring. And he re-recorded this document and the preparations are so thrilling. And so there’s this type of second in that music 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 music 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 document. So I hope they pay attention from entrance to again, again to entrance.
Do you have got any favourite lyrics as a songwriter? Any moments that you simply’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 making an attempt 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 tougher and tougher. I feel there’s a frustration in the place this nation goes and a worry of getting behind and issues type of come crashing down. And I really feel like all people is feeling that actually deeply that should 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 document as effectively?
Hannah Cohen: What’s my takeaway? I don’t know if I’ve actually considered that but. I simply made it. I’m unsure the right way to reply that. My takeaway is that there’s magnificence in all places. You look there, something can imply every part. That’s my takeaway, that something can imply every part – 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 suggest for first time guests to the Catskills?
Hannah Cohen: I counsel 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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