GRECCHINOIS
Back to School
…With no endless scroll to distract, family time in Greece meant I was able to immerse myself in book after book on the beach and navigate a foreign culture and language, all allowing my imagination and creativity to flourish. With no screens to hide behind, weeks at arts camp meant focused musical practice, intensive rehearsals in the theatre, and learning how to push through the boundaries of my naturally introverted tendencies to navigate the hyperstimulating social scene of brilliant…
Finding Joy in Judgement
…They say that Mercury Retrograde, in addition to being a time of garbled miscommunication, is a time for slowing down and considering the patterns in one’s life. While I don’t usually put too much stock into astrology, I nonetheless find myself buying into horoscopes more than usual during these three-week junkets…
What Passions Cannot Music Raise
…Time naturally continues to be at the forefront of my thoughts, as we slide into one of the quasi-quarterly periods that astrologers identify as Mercury Retrograde, in which the pace of time can feel like it slows to that of molasses, and we are forced to move slowly or suffer the consequences.…
The Grace to Begin and Belong
…Somehow, a month of seemingly disconnected and random projects that only seemed to share the fact of their new-ness to me coalesced into a monthlong meditation on identity, and how it affects the ways we not only see others, but ourselves, as well…
Always Amateurs
There is an adage that was somewhat prevalent when I was in my student days as a musician that went along the lines of: “Those who can’t do, teach”. I’ve always thought there was something deeply wrong with this line of thinking. It just felt like a way for insecure people to tear down the work and abilities of others…
Chaos and Order
…This sense of deliberately-embraced chaos, and the question of how we maintain hope within it, became the thread I found running through everything I encountered this month. Revisiting the music of Bach, Buxtehude, and Strozzi in Santa Fe at the end of March, I was constantly reminded…
Looking Up
…something Krista said really stuck with me as the newscycle has sucked us into the mire with renewed vigor these past few days: "I believe that across all of our fractures and differences, most of us are walking around with hearts that are sore." …
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