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17 03, 2015

Magic, Music, Money, Math

By |2016-11-21T07:31:40+00:00March 17th, 2015|Creativity, Spirit, The Bardic Life|2 Comments

There’s math, and then there’s magic math. In the first kind, sums are tidy, predictable, and remain neatly where you put them. The ledger is quiet, its straight lines creating orderly little cages for the well-behaved numbers that slumber there. In the second kind, sums shimmer and disappear, reappearing in another country, another pocketbook, another [...]

10 03, 2015

Homes for Butterflies

By |2016-11-21T07:31:40+00:00March 10th, 2015|Creativity, The Bardic Life|Comments Off on Homes for Butterflies

Ideas, sketches, drafts, notions, hints, and creative niggles are the butterflies of our artistic lives.  They flutter into view and thrill us with their color and promise.  Suddenly, the world is alight and shimmering with beauty. But how quickly those delicate wings can flutter away! How many times have I, bone tired, lain in bed [...]

9 02, 2015

Bardic Snapshots: the artistic life in focus

By |2016-11-21T07:31:40+00:00February 9th, 2015|Creativity, The Bardic Life|2 Comments

So much happens when you are teaching, learning, and living the arts! Here are three quick “snapshots” from recent days, each followed by a “focus” – a new clarity – which, I hope, will help you see your artistic life with refreshed eyes. Does it make you practice? “How did you get on this week? [...]

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