From the category archives:
When I first started studying music (my first piano lesson was at age 5, so a long time ago!) I had to study music theory in order to understand dynamic markings in my piano and vocal pieces. Classical music composers use Italian words for all dynamic markings, and each word has a very specific direction [...]
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There are times (and I’m experiencing one of them right now), when deciding which actions to take seems impossible. Too many choices, too many variables. Too little clarity, too little energy. Which way do I go? Rather than struggle with choices, sometimes it’s good to just step back and take a rest. Things get clearer [...]
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For the last three weeks I have been taking a creative pause. Really it’s more like a life pause and it will probably go on for a while. The other day I read something on Escape from Cubicle Nation that brought back a vivid memory of something I used to do as child, something I [...]
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One of the books that I’m reading for a course right now is the Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Written during the 1800′s, the language is – well, lets just say it’s not what I’m used to reading in current language. I find myself saying, “Wait a minute, what did he just say?” and re-reading [...]
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When I moved to Vancouver BC in 2006 I spent some time in what I called the Neutral Zone. It was my first major move in over 20 years, and my first long distance move ever. For about six week I had boxes of books sitting in my living room with no shelves to put [...]
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Last week I didn’t do a blog post. I didn’t do much of anything because the simple truth was, I just didn’t feel like it. A few blog posts ago I wrote a post about chaos and how we deal with the storms in our lives. But this wasn’t like a storm. More like a [...]
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“Ships are safe in the harbor but that’s not what ships are for.” It’s not what a life is for either. A safe and precisely ordered life may seem like the ideal life: I used to think so when things went wrong. In the middle of chaos I longed for stability. I longed for the [...]
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