21 09, 2018

Playing the Pauses

By |2018-09-21T15:43:59+00:00September 21st, 2018|Artistry, Creativity, Learning, Music, The Bardic Life|Comments Off on Playing the Pauses

I’m so grateful these days for all the places in music that offer us the opportunity to re-group, re-calibrate, and re-commit. What I mean is this: when you’re playing a piece (and especially when you’re performing it for an audience), it’s perilously easy to get caught in some inner story that leaves you breathless and [...]

7 09, 2018

With Love to All the Secret Helpers

By |2018-09-07T16:00:08+00:00September 7th, 2018|Artistry, Creativity, Love, Spirit, The Bardic Life|Comments Off on With Love to All the Secret Helpers

Can we take a moment to hand it to brothers - and others - who ensure we keep going? Reading Lloyd Goodrich's short, wonderful bio of Winslow Homer, I came across this warming little ancecdote: "His first paintings, begun when he was 26, were of the war. One of the earliest showed a soldier being [...]

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