Practicing Days – Page 2 – Ten Thousand Stars

15 Outfits

Last week my best friend Lora and I were talking on the phone. “I have…

All or Nothing

I’m afraid, like many people, I have a rather binary, all or nothing……

Summer of Inhabiting the Rests

Some of my students have discovered a whole new meaning to the concept of…

Practice Holes

In March. I played a piece for one of Matt’s choirs called Songstream by Alice…

The Amaryllis

No matter what happens, I’ve always known I was inheriting the amaryllis.…

79 Letters: A Crisis of Practice

In retrospect, I believe it started with the purse. In late February my mother…

You Garden

It is the time of year when I am facing an entire garden in need of pruning.…

Movable Do

I should start with a disclaimer: I love the French. I love France, a country…

Sun Salutations

One day last summer, during one of those hour-long yoga flow classes, I…

Full Moon Rising*

January seemed like a long month, and a month that lacked any kind of rhythm or…