One of the most valuable lessons I learned as a musician came from Carlos Santana. He said that when you work on your instrument – learning scales and patterns, working repetitiously until your playing flows naturally – you should not think of it as ‘practice.’ Practice is a chore. Instead, you should think of it,Continue reading “Music 101: Gratitude”
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Day 28
Day 28 – Total confirmed cases in US: 530,006 For Christians all over the world, today is the most sacred day on the calendar. All those religions and denominations are built around this day, the day that Jesus, the lamb of God, rose from the dead into eternal life. For many Christians in the USContinue reading “Day 28”
Day 25
Day 25 – Total confirmed cases in US: 432,438 Two things get clearer every day: our president is derelict in his duty, and we are never going back to the society we had at the beginning of last month. Five weeks ago today – March 5 – was the last normal day for me. ItContinue reading “Day 25”
Election Day 2016
I grew up in a politically split household, but in the opposite way from a lot of others: Dad was a liberal Democrat and Mom was a conservative Republican. My brothers and I all followed Dad’s lead and after many years, Mom joined us too. She was born and raised in Massachusetts at aContinue reading “Election Day 2016”
