Last week the dark days of winter ended and the bright days of spring and summer began. Did this happen…
The world needs you, people need you but most of all you need to attach yourself to your own sacred commission and share it generously with others, because nothing else will fulfill you or bring you happiness.
Like all writing, this post is more of a self-portrait or confession than it is a piece of ”valuable content”…
I have been around music now for a good 35 years. The first 20 years of my life I wasn’t…
What good is living if you aren’t going to build your own inner ivory tower that has it’s own independent set of values not derived from the fads of common life?
The university library where I teach a music class is right next to the music building. It is basically two…
When I was 18 years old I knew very little about the great music of the masters. It seemed like…
I am in the middle of my first semester teaching Music Appreciation to undergraduate underclassmen/women and I am experiencing conflicts…
People WASTE a lot of time watching the news or some banal TV sitcom and whittle away precious moments in their lives when they could be involved in their own thoughts, ideas and ways of finding a solution.
In the book “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron, it talks about the use of morning pages to get started…