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Festival Season
Once I played a set of pieces on a concert shared by a number of musicians.
Shadows and Snazz
Peter and I were discussing his piece for our upcoming performance class.
The Unwelcomed Guest
“…Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes…”
–Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Make Plans, but Hold them Lightly
In Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert writes of a time when she and her Brazilian fiancé Felipe were traveling in Vietnam.
Grains of Happiness
So few grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.
-Jane Hirshfield
Recital Fun Facts
Some fun facts about pandemic piano lessons in the Ten Thousand Stars Studio:
Practicing, Everywhere
It is the time of year where even the most free-spirited and unstructured among us succumb to the magnetic pull of seasonal routines and rituals.