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Inka

"I would stand on top of a mountain naked if more people would hear about your music. I now listen to it each morning to motivate me ..."

- Kathy Lynch

$2 of every CD you buy goes directly to an indigenous person in the Andes


Lucy Plays Panpipes for Peace, a novel
by Lynette Yetter

"If you know someone with an itch to ditch it all and immerse themselves in another world, get them this riveting account. It requires courage and imagination for Lucy to have done what she did, but the main thrust of this story is that if Lucy can do it, so can you. And who can't use THAT kind of inspiration."

- Ellen Snortland, author of "Beauty Bites Beast" and playwright of "Now That She's Gone"


". . . been enjoying your book some more today. i love how real it is. unpretentious. wholesome."

- Tantra Bensko


"What a great story and a wonderful character. I love the energy of the writing and how you are able to capture a certain movement between the real and spiritual. You are a gifted writer with a fresh vision."

-Matthew Lippman, author of the award-winning "New Year of Yellow" and "Monkey Bars"

 

"...First Rate"

- Margaret Kiever, Secretary of Sepulveda Unitarian Universalists Society


"I just finished 'Lucy' and am impressed. It is so easy to read that quite a few pages go by before I notice I've been reading awhile. The greatest strength of the book is its forthright, straightforward language and purpose. The stories are clearly told, and are rounded and interesting. I enjoyed it all, and certainly hope a paper edition goes strongly. I hope our personal endings work as well as you propose for Lucy."

- Lewis Ellingham, author of Poet be like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco renaissance, and The Birds and other poems

 

"But damn, Lynette, your writing trips beautifully, like wandering through a bird song filled garden."

- Paul Barnett, author of the novel Sergio's Clock

 

"Very very inspiring"

-Howie Leifer, NYC

"It is a great read! Lynette has a unique writing style that is so sincere it captivates your heart, and educates at once! I loved reading her book."

- Carolina Mendez Alkahmri, Oakland, California

"You had the chutzpah to do the things I dreamed of doing but never felt brave enough to do!"

- Carol Hart-Martin, California

GET INSPIRED with LUCY PLAYS PANPIPES FOR PEACE

Lucy is available now at local and online bookstores in North America and the UK


The Corporate Office
Mamaqocha Titicaca, Tawantinsuyu


"I have often thought about you and your genuine love for our music and our people.  In many respects, you are an inspiration to me!  You walk the talk, and live in accordance with your beliefs.

- Margarita B. Marìn-Dale, Adjunct Professor of Latin American Studies, American University, Washington, D.C.


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Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry & Prose

2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, finalist. First book in English showcasing the life and writings of Bolivia's most celebrated writer and educator, Adela Zamudio (1854-1928). Her birthday is a national holiday in Bolivia. Self-taught, Zamudio was the mother of feminism and women's education in Bolivia, and was active for Indigenous People's rights. The President of Bolivia crowned her with gold laurel leaves in honor of her cultural contributions. Adela Zamudio: Selected Poetry & Prose, translated from the Spanish by Lynette Yetter, presents a bilingual overview of Zamudio's work, much of which was previously untranslated. Several chapters, including the Prolog by Bolivian Zamudio scholar Virginia Ayllón, outline Zamudio's biography and the cultural context in which she wrote. Adela Zamudio's celebration of lesbian love and her ironic cultural critiques continue to resonate today.


72 Money Saving Tips for the 99% "As co-founder of a socially-concerned company, I whole-heartedly endorse Lynette Yetter's book 72 Money Saving Tips for the 99%. This book is not just one, but many steps in the right direction. It is full of surprising secrets of human happiness -- told with wit and humor."
- Jerry Greenfield,
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream


"From the start I knew I had discovered a book that is meant to bring about a positive change, by reconnecting the human soul with the natural rhythms of the good earth. The more I read, the more this book makes sense to me. Less is more and that which we have is to be shared with others. My mind was stimulated by Lynette's craft for carving out worlds of possibility. I am tempted to reveal more but I shall refrain, thus allowing you the original joy of discovery when you read this book."
- Paul Barnett, author of the novel Sergio's Clock

"72 Money Saving Tips for the 99%" is Printed on Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) Certified Sourcing paper.

A portion of proceeds supports Potters for Peace water filter projects around the world.


Cover art of Lucy Plays
Panpipes for Peace

Printed on Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) Certified Sourcing paper.

A portion of proceeds supports Potters for Peace water filter projects around the world.

"This novel ( . . . so much of it is "true" it is barely a novel . . . ) is like entering a good and trusting heart, a heart that believes that following one's inner intuition leads to the ultimate unfolding of life's essence." - Richard Weekley, author of Already There

"If you know someone with an itch to ditch it all and immerse themselves in another world, get them this riveting account. It requires courage and imagination for Lucy to have done what she did, but the main thrust of this story is that if Lucy can do it, so can you. And who can't use THAT kind of inspiration." - Ellen Snortland, author of Beauty Bites Beast and playwright of "Now That She's Gone"

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REVIEW of Lucy Plays Panpipes for Peace
By Tantra Bensko

Lynette Yetter's novel draws from her own life when she went to the Andes, pulled by the sound of the panpipes as a tool for transformation. Yet it is fiction, in the way called for in David Shields' Reality Hunger. It means more knowing she really did something truly audacious and death defying. Here, we get a glimpse of how close to reality it is, and how the fiction made it into the powerful book it is.

"Hurtling through space and time, the blue orb was rapidly self-destructing. Vital fluids pumped out of its innards burned in orgies of greed. The vapors ate away its luminous ozone skin.

Indigenous Elders, you might call them brain cells of wisdom, were ignored.

New synapses of fiber optic cable and satellite rays rationalized the destruction as 'progress.'

Chaos surged like a flooding river."

Thus begins the story in which Lucy goes to participate in the ancient culture of the Andes.

Coca Vendor (oil
painting by Lynette Yetter)

Her words continue to swell when she extends her viewpoint outward, such as "Each person, a black-clad spark of soul, pulled by the inexorable gravity of survival. Together the seething mass of humanity ran. In their black mourning clothes, they were like primordial darkness churning. The light of humanity in their hearts bound each to the other as if to birth a new galaxy of life, in Warrior Town."

It's obvious Lynette knows how to write powerfully. I also appreciate how real and down-to-earth the language is, how honest and wholesome this book. It's hip in a DIY kind of way, with Lynette doing a tour on bike for this book as activism inspiring others to follow their dreams and stand up for peace, and play. It also is a great example of what David Shields call for in his manifesto Reality Hunger, which is taking the world by storm now. Lynette Yetter's Lucy feels real, and the events occurred in the way that anything occurs in our memories as fiction stories we've told ourselves repeatedly and bundled into plot packages.

One of the things I like best is that she includes the vantage point of manifesting and finding our future and doesn't just include the times her intentions worked. Her idealism, naive ideas of the simplicity of finding her heart's desire are sweet, and ironic when faced with reality. She manages to keep her humor about the ups and downs that causes, though she feels such things very passionately, and they can shake her. Her naive idealistic determination makes her follow the sound of pan pipes to Peru, where she plays in various venues, joining in with indigenous musicians, as she believes the sound can help create visions of harmony for others as it did for her. She believes she can make a difference to bring more peace to this world through them. But it's just that quality, and her passionate empathy and love, that create the inspiring events of this book.

On location in
Bolivia filming "Panpipes for
Peace"

Lucy takes on oppression and segregation, pointing out the false flag of 911, the cultural imperialism of missionaries, the modern tendency to block people out of simply going out and camping under the stars, and she wonders at anomalies of government/military connections. In South America, she plays indigenous peasant music only recently made legal, and has no trouble associating with citizens in the Andes who disrespect unfair political authority, and encourages harmony in dangerous situations. Even in competitive traditions she fosters a sense of oneness.

She acknowledges how magical the world is through synchronicities such as running into the man who wrote a song she was playing. Yet, this isn't a treatise on creative visualization. The irony that can undercut such magic becomes obvious when she gets to know the song's author. I love that combination. She's not living out some formula, pretending it always works. So, when her intentions do manifest, her visions do come true, they are far more believable and powerful.

We learn about Andean folklore, such as the respectful relationship of miners to the Tios, earth spirits who live underground. We also learn that kusillos are androgynous entities who bridge the known and unknown.  And we follow closely: shocking international business practices, the role of civil disobedience in social progress, and the involvement of the U.S. in civil war. This book made me cry for a long time, tremble, and even shout out loud.

David Shields would like her book. In his, Reality Hunger, which also came out in 2010, he claims "Most, perhaps even all, good work (or, okay, work that excited me) eludes easy generic classification: once we know it's coloring entirely within the lines called 'novel' or 'memoir' or 'Hollywood movie,' I honestly don't see how anything emotionally or intellectually interesting can happen for the reader. . . . Just as out-and-out fiction no longer compels my attention, neither does straight-ahead memoir."

I asked Lynette about the fiction/memoir interface: "My book and reality. It is heavily based on my own personal experience in Peru and Bolivia.

In order to better tell the Truth, to express Reality, I chose to fictionalize my experiences. As an old hiking buddy and PhD in English once told me�fiction is where we express the deeper truths of life. In short, she said, "Fiction rocks!" Lucy Plays Panpipes for Peace started out as pure memoir�emails sent to friends and first person stories I told at performance spaces in Los Angeles.

But, it was too limiting to stick to chronological events and specific people.

By fictionalizing reality I can lump many people into a single character who then becomes an archetype. And in that process, new characters, 100% fictitious, are sometimes born. My favorite is Aunt Bert.

Aunt Bert came to me in a vision, you might say. I was riding in a bus along the shores of Lake Titicaca, when suddenly Aunt Bert appeared in my mind. She told me her life story. As I looked out the bus window at the scenery passing by, I was so moved by her life that I even cried at the sad parts. And when I got to where I was going, I wrote down what she had told me. That is how Aunt Bert came to be in the book.

Speaking of reality�to me Aunt Bert is one of the most real characters in the novel�yet she is 100% fictitious.

Reality is so multi-dimensional. On one hand, it is the material world we can document with calendars and cameras and weights and measures. Yet it is also the invisible realm of the mysterious that animates all of life�is life. By fictionalizing the material world, I strive to reveal the deeper truths of what is invisible yet is the most powerful truth of all�our own lives."

David Shields asks character is either real or imaginary?. . . . To be alive is to travel ceaselessly between the real and the imaginary, and mongrel form is about as exact an emblem as I can conceive for the unresolvable mystery at the center of identity.

Headshot, Lynette
Yetter

I can feel this book in my heart. I know Lynette bravely accomplished the amazing feats in this story, yet it isn't a heavy handed recitation of her travels, or an SGI tract, but a call to go into our deepest selves, to cry, because there is a reality there that the fictionalization allows to live in a moving way, inside of us. There is no boundary between story and life, Lucy and Lynette, or our hands, wet with tears, and the pages they turn, which catch the light of the sun, that is not separable from the light of consciousness.



Get Inspired to follow your dreams!

Review by Ellen Snortland

"The blurb on the back cover of 'Lucy Plays Panpipes for Peace, a novel' is true - 'In many respects, you are an inspiration to me!  You walk the talk, and live in accordance with your beliefs."

Anyone who has ever dreamed of learning a foreign language (or two) and moving to a remote country seeking a simpler, more authentic life, should read “Lucy Plays Pan Pipes For Peace.” This novel, based on Lynette Yetter’s experiences, opens doors to places and people I never would have known otherwise and I feel richer and more whole for the experience.

In a poetic and musical way, our guide sweeps us along with Lucy on her quest to Peru and Bolivia to find or create the peaceful world that she senses in the sound of the panpipes. I laughed and cried and felt inspired as if I, too, were playing the panpipes with indigenous men in traditional festivals or chewing the sacred coca leaf with a Quechua family in a humble adobe house or offering up my own life in protest of U.S.-supported human rights abuses.

Spiritual poetry (that amazes me with its creativity), weaves seamlessly with fascinating cultural details (that only an insider could know) and with commentary on globalization as seen from the “globalized” citizens perspective in a way that is natural, thought-provoking and inspiring.

Once I started reading I didn't want to stop. Also, I enjoyed the illustrations - they add a whole new level to the experience of questing together with Lucy towards this mystical world of which the panpipes sing.

- Ellen Snortland, author of “Beauty Bites Beast” and playwright of “Now That She’s Gone”


Cover art of Lucy Plays
Panpipes for Peace

Follow Along as Lucy Discovers the Secret to Living an Authentic Life on a Daring Adventure from California to Peru and Bolivia

"If you know someone with an itch to ditch it all and immerse themselves in another world, get them this riveting account. It requires courage and imagination for Lucy to have done what she did, but the main thrust of this story is that if Lucy can do it, so can you. And who can’t use THAT kind of inspiration." - Ellen Snortland, author of “Beauty Bites Beast” and playwright of “Now That She’s Gone.”

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- Kathy Lynch

Espiritu Incaico / Inka Spirit CD cover
art. Lynette Yetter

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Lynette -
My husband now thinks that you'r a musical genius. I tell everyone I meet about your video and book. I gave the information to a depressed California schoolteacher as a way to boost her spirits. I sang the chorus all day (of the song Nam Myoho Renge Kyo). Having contact with you has lifted my spirits in the cold, lonely Sado Island-like place where I work weird hours and have no social life because of work that needs to be done on the house. Thank you for being there. - Kathy

Oh dear Kathy, your words lift MY spirits! :) We truly need each other. Thank you, my friend. :) - Lynette

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Lynette -
Ahorra mi esposo piensa que tu eres un genio musical. Yo paso la voz a todo el mundo sobre tu video y libro. Yo di la informaciòn a una profesora de California que fue deprimida para animarle. Yo cantè el coro todo el dìa (de la canciòn Nam Myoho Renge Kyo). Estar en contacto contigo ha leventado mi animo, en el lugar donde yo trabajo que parece muy frio y solo como la Isla del Sado. Trabajo turnos muy estraños y no tengo una vida social por que del trabajo que tenemos que hacer en la casa. Gracias por estar presente.
- Kathy

O querida Kathy, tus palabras levanta a MI ánimo! Es verdad que necesitamos una y otra. Muchísimas gracias, amiga mia. :) - Lynette


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