12 March 2019

Be Like a Mirror

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Every move since I left New Orleans has been at best ill-considered and most of the time a mistake.

Am I about to do it again?

With my most sincere Quit underway, I lay awake in my bedroom last night drenched in the smell of cigarette smoke wafting up from the apartment downstairs. One more evidence that I should never have moved to Lawrence, KS, I thought. I spent some minutes arranging a list of unfortunate coincidences and painful synchronicities since May 2017.

Meditation and piano students are my life-savers for now.

08 March 2019

Valuable Feedback

A piano student recently told her mother:

Miss Alex helps me do things that I don't think I can do.

Truly amazing how without a syllabus or an explicitly expressed mission statement, this child has discerned a primary pillar of my objective as an arts educator. 

Not amazing how gratifying it is to hear her impression.