Here is filmmaker (and friend) Lucy Mathews Heegaard’s take on her experience of filming the “Yes” video in the crystal canoe. Enjoy!
In this day and age, with all the demands on our time, resources and energy, many of us learn to stay afloat and keep our sanity by drawing our boundaries– by “just saying no.” While boundaries are important and knowing when to say no is an invaluable skill, I would like to extoll the virtues of “yes.”
A recent project took me to Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis to film my friend Barbara McAfee singing her song “Yes.” I heard her introduce this song in concert once, saying that when she began writing music as a twenty-something, one of her first compositions was entitled, “No!” She said it took her 25 years to write “Yes!” I laughed and thought of the classic behavior of two-year-olds, when they discover the power of the word “no” and can hardly be convinced to answer a question with anything else.
But what about “yes?” In…
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Full Voice -- Barbara McAfee 
Thanks so much, Barbara, for sharing my take on your “Yes” story. I found it such a tremendous pleasure to help translate your song into visual images. Every time I watch the footage we took of you in the canoe, I think of how glorious that day was and it makes me want leap up and say, “yes” again and again!