mindfulness
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Glass Half Gone
The World demands your deliberate artifice But right in the now and hear You’re Walking alone, along a lonely Love burnt grey and dust of stars Streaming ankle level and below Beneath and between your fears own me Dawn cracking down on a darkened day Alive about a sunbeam, once in May Living a lie,…
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Why Is Silence So Loud In Music?
I have always hated the sound of nothing. I grind my teeth in silences and put music on as soon as I am by myself. I am scared about what might happen if I am left alone with myself. Inside my mind, what might be waiting for me? I think I’d rather avoid it than…
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A Curiosity
A curiosity comes And then it goes as soon as I realize All I’m curious about has less than an explanation No one knows what I desire to know It’s not for me to ask what or how or why It’s for me to do great, live well Then die.
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Sometimes we all get in the way of ourselves
http://youtu.be/GNc6qTwC7OY I’ve never experienced a relaxed performing experience. It’s always been a matter of hoping and praying that practice will have been enough and that my performance will be a quarter as fluent as it was in practice. This has really frustrated me. How is it fair that I become a completely different musician when I’m…
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Should I practice or should I just be?
I am much more relaxed about my practice now a days. I have enough time to do everything and can wip out some constructive practice when needs be. But the rest of the time I’ve found to be a struggle. I understand that the time you spend mindlessly repeating a certain phrase can translate into…
Hattie Butterworth 