True, honest commitment is silent, patient, and has no witnesses. Time, in this equation only functions as a pinpoint on the map for memory . A remembering of hours toiling over a new skillset (a new chord progression, a verse that isn’t sitting right and so on). Nobody knows the number of times you may want to give up as you’re learning... See more

In order to know you are committed, and with reasons grounded in your values, there needs to be a sense of repetition— entregarte mil veces —a stack of hours (or a long line, depending on how you see it) to show you what has been done with your time. The fact that these words exist in tandem, in a bilingual way for me, also helps me understand how... See more