i talked to a friend yesterday about an insecurity he feels w singing
when he gets really into a performance, he fears that his ears don't work as well; he glosses over half-steps or inadvertently changes keys
so i shared a take that i think could help someone in ANY art form:
We have tried to relate to the world around us through only the left side of our brain, and we are clearly failing. If we are to re-establish a viable relationship, we will need to rediscover the wisdom of these other cultures who knew that their relationship to the land and to the natural world required the whole of their being.
Self-improvement is usually initiated in response to self-deficiency...In contrast to self-improvement, self-unfoldment starts with self-sufficiency. That is, self-unfoldment takes the view that who and what you are is whole and complete from the beginning.
The numbness I felt was the result of continuously choosing to ride the gondola in the direction of someone else’s definition of success, moving further and further from my own intuition of a life well lived. When we feel internal turmoil, it’s a signal from our body to rethink our assumptions. While it’s natural to turn to everyone else — anyone... See more
one of my annoyances:
when somebody teaches "Topic Y", but it's a massively shallow-ified version of Topic Y compared to how deep Y can actually go.
repeat - & then many people think shallows are all there is to Y.
I care a lot about being clear when I'm teaching... See more
In poetry, there is never a one-to-one correspondence between a word and its meaning. Instead, each word builds upon the words previous and the words that come after, and the poet chooses words not only for their sound but also their multiple meanings. Like herbs added to a soup or subtones and overtones in musical composition, each word adds not... See more