Author: Helena Lynch

They say America has no mythology of its own – only a history too young to grow into legend. But drive through the prairies of Dakota at sunset, hear the creak of a freight car somewhere along the tracks of the Pacific Northwest, or pull over on the shoulder of a highway and watch the…

“If I can feel your pain, your doubts, your happiness, your elation through themusic, it means I can feel you. And this can lead to reflection on my own life”, – says Danish musician and songcraft researcher Martin Høybye. Having written his first song at fourteen, and at seventeen setting off to the US to…

“Creativity is a way to find yourself before others finally define you.” In this thought, in my view, there is both romance and anxiety at the same time: the path to one’s own authenticity is rarely straightforward. More often, it passes through shame, loneliness, exhaustion, the desire to conform – through those states that are…

The word “inevitability” is built treacherously. In form it is a negation-“ne” plus “izbezhat’”, that is, “that which cannot be avoided.” When I hear “inevitability,” I automatically imagine an oncoming catastrophe, a diagnosis, a finale from which there is no salvation. The word seems to deprive one of the right to speak in advance: if…