Back From Israel
I am writing this while returning on the 12 hour flight from Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel to Newark, New Jersey and then finally to Boston. And like I often do when I am coming home from my annual trips to Japan, I thought I would send a letter with some of...
A Musical Life In Progress
As we emerged from our three days of hibernation after the first combined nor-easter and intense cold snap of the season, we decided to go to see the movie “Inside Llewyn Davis.” It is a terrific movie with real-life pacing about a musician on the folk scene in New...
Returning to Facebook
I took a deliberate four month break from Facebook at the beginning of the summer just as an experiment to see if I might learn anything about my relationship to this form of media/expression. I had planned to come back to it, so this past weekend I looked at...
Self And No Self In Playing Music With Others
Debi Adams, a terrific Alexander Technique teacher I have been working with, says that one of the benefits of being aware and connecting with our environment is that we can sense its support.I have been looking into how to relax into the support we have when we are...
Let them eat broccoli
The Supreme Court was less than inspiring this week. I found myself being pulled into a state of dismay. I strongly objected to the unfairness of hearing specious arguments intended to dismantle a health care law that attempted to help the greatest number of people....
Our new gig at the Lily Pad
We have a new home on the first Thursday of every month at the Lily Pad in Cambridge.