Author: Thomas

What I Listened To: Week of 6/27/22

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Here’s a link to my original post, ‘Healing My Brain Through Music’. This week was a deep dive into solo viola music suggested to me by a fantastic violist friend of mine, Kallie Sugatski. I jotted down notes on the pieces as they came to me. Weariness heals wounds I – Olga Neuwirth / This took a couple of listens… Read more →

Action by Action / You Have Presence

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Sometimes the things that you need to hear seem to appear when they’re the most needed. I really needed to hear both of these things today. “You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible—and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some… Read more →

Filling the Well: Metropolitan Museum

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Ages and ages ago I read (and enjoyed) ‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron. One of the foundational tools from this seminal book on creativity is something called an ‘Artist Date’. ‘The Artist Date is a once-weekly, festive, solo expedition to explore something that interests you. The Artist Date need not be overtly “artistic” — think mischief more than mastery.… Read more →

7.753 Billion

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“No one needs the things that I do. No one needs my music. No one needs or wants my skills and my talents. No one will pay me for what I have to offer the world.” — My brain sometimes As of 2020 there were approximately 7.753 billion people planet earth. That’s a lot of people. It takes 1000 true… Read more →