Last weekend and this weekend.
Last weekend I taught at the Young Writers Workshop, an annual conference for elementary school students grades 3-5. We talked about characters, setting, conflict, and the power of the blurb.
This weekend I am packing for Disneyworld.
It can't get better (or more different) that that!
I've been meaning to do a video of me playing the veena for quite some time, but just haven't gotten around to it. But so far I had my third lesson, and it's been going really well. I'm a fast learner, but poor at reading music, so it averages out I think.
It's so interesting that while the technique of playing the veena is certainly different from playing the violin, the thinking part is the same. Or maybe it's the way my mind works -- because I see the notes in my head, I think of them as patterns or groups of notes in a certain order. But at some point, no matter how much my brain is thinking, my fingers eventually take over. The fingers memorize, just like the brain does.