Voice memos transformed my practice during the COVID-19 pandemic and led to my interest in audiocollages. Temporarily deprived of our senses of sight and touch, when many lost the capacity to be starting at a screen and could also not engage in physical embraces, I began to experience voices differently; people speaking their thoughts aloud became an express and exciting curiosity. I became enamored with the precious and emergent way in which people spoke: each thought leading to another thought, each gentle phrase of encouragement, each affirmation reflected a reverence for the wonder of this life – I began to understand this included me, the gift of my life, and the gift of the relationship between us. Setting these recordings to composed music, served as a practice of gratitude for the love humans can express for each other and the chords keeping us connected through time and space.