I recently watched a TEDx Talk from Adam Neely, musician & educator, on the topic of developing a personal language of music (https://youtu.be/bYrK_dL7YDU). In it, he describes a performance by Dave Brubeck & Christian McBride in which he witnessed an amazing interaction. These musicians appeared to be having a kind of conversation, through music - …
The Emotional Compost Heap
I’m revisiting a book that I’ve had in my collection for years but honestly never really absorbed prior to this. I can see now how I needed to be receptive to this material and get some experience under my belt, so to speak, before it could resonate with me. The book is called “Soul Mates” …
Chance
I continue to be amazed at the random, and yet seemingly serendipitous, ways that existence unfolds before us. There have been many times that I’ve been surprised at how slight changes in my choices or plans have effects that result in chance encounters & experiences that I otherwise would’ve missed. In retrospect, it’s easy to …
Lean into Timelessness
I think many of us have started to notice how our sense of the days passing has changed. A friend joked with me that “the names of the days have been officially changed... they will now be known as ‘yesterday’, ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’”. Why is this? I think there are a number of reasons but …
