GRECCHINOIS
OPTIMISM
“The first day over the hump. Day 16.
Honestly, this is one of those days where I am really not sure what I am going to write. But I’m sticking with this exercise and braving the blank page in front of me, trusting something will come. It’s coming.
Looking to the day ahead…”
ROUTINE
“I didn’t sleep well last night.
After the losing the day yesterday to running around the Bay Area attending to errands, I found that I still had a grant application to finish for CAIC. I stayed up a bit too late in order to get in my portion of the application before the deadline, but this morning my internal alarm clock didn’t care…”
REMARKABLE / UNREMARKABLE
“Today was a rather unremarkable Tuesday filled with quotidian tasks and appointments. A chat with my accountant about taxes. A chat with another singer seeking advice about making an album. Sorting through my finances. A visit to the...”
INDIE SPIRIT
“The expression ‘When it rains, it pours,’ really feels applicable in an interesting way right now. In just the past six days, I have been approached by four different singers about advice on how to record an album. It’s exciting to see everyone’s independent spirit rising to the fore, and I wonder if this is perhaps a symptom of the lockdown…”
THE PROMISE OF SPRING
“Today was an exceptionally beautiful California day, the kind for which we can feel extra grateful during this pandemic: ideal weather to be outside, allowing us to ease our covid isolation with a socially distanced soaking in of the sun…”
MOON SONGS
“I am not one for New Year’s resolutions, but 2021 seems to be the year of setting creative challenges for myself. In addition to this 30 day challenge to blog every day this month, I decided that I would try to make a video of a song for each full moon this year, beginning with today’s full moon, which I recently learned is called the ‘snow moon’. Each song will relate to the moon in one way or another - sometimes very obviously, and perhaps sometimes less so...”
MUSICAL MACHISMO
“During last night’s episode of Heard Over The Piano, Sasha Cooke spoke a bit about the singer’s stigma of being a ‘good musician’. While that initially sounds like a compliment, early on in her career she had the impression that many believe that ‘being a good musician’ was really a euphemism for ‘not a good singer’…”
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