Bettina Pittaluga
“I feel connected through others, through words, vibrations, scents, gestures, a gaze, a voice, an action, a gathering. Connection, for me, is as much sensory as it is a matter of values, representing our humanity in its entirety, in both discourse and action.
In a beautifully ambivalent yet icy state, it takes very little to connect, and one must move mountains, persist in reaching for the moon, to be seen, and heard, to reconnect with others.”
Amy Woodward
“I feel connected to others when we meet each other in a state of radical acceptance – where we each feel safe to be seen in our wholeness devoid of judgement and pretence, safe to both sit in silence or to be brought to tears. When we see ourselves reflected in one another despite vast differences, finding uncanny similarities in our imperfect humanness. When we simply spend the time together – honest, unhurried time – enough to find a shared joy or pain. When we’re sharing food, music, stories and late night revelations. When we’re skin to skin with our young, when we’re skin to skin with our old. When we accept that we’re all interconnected in millions of mystical and mundane ways, when we allow our vulnerability to lead and our open-hearted actions and innate care for one another to follow. ”