I find myself going deeper and deeper into the music. Not content to simply learn a piece, but to explore it's architecture. Where is the melody line? How to bring it out? What happens when the surrounding notes are played? Does a richer, more thoughtful design in phrasing produce a deeper experience of the piece? What happens to the sound when the piano lid is raised? Now what do I hear?

The possibilities are endless. Growth potential is always present. A deeper connection to physical reality by way of sound and touch. Endlessly more subtle. Endlessly more refined.

I experience the connection to pure creative principle through wood and metal that has been brilliantly designed to allow the human ear and heart embrace a small piece of the Divine.

I feel so blessed. And so grateful.

I joined an Adult Music Student Forum. Last week was the first recital I attended since college days. Yikes! Played 'OK'. Translation - 'Got through without making a total fool of myself.' Attended another recital yesterday. I worked and worked and worked on my Chopin all week. Yesterday was a much better presentation. Translation - 'I came home happy.' Last week I neglected to tune for myself and my performance prior to the recital. Yesterday, however, I did a little tuning before leaving home. Stayed calm and steady while playing. Ta daaaaaaaaaa! Did the trick.

See the Cezanne exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art. It's very exciting.

THE PEARL
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."

And the other oyster replied with haughy complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without."

At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without,

"Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."
Kahlil Gibran
"The Wanderer His Parables and His Sayings.

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It's 85 degrees!
On April 5th!