friday

[egg_shell]

Dreamt about all the family (mom and dad, John, Kathy and Pete, the nieces and their husbands, my kids) needing to get into my car so we could all go and see a new house. The problem was how to get them all fit into the car. For some reason I seemed to think it was possible to do and the car did seem to expand somewhat. John was small and

Comments

[howlin_wolf_66]

Enjoy the hike! :-) hugs*

[egg_shell]

Thanks! We should. I can't remember a hike I didn't enjoy. :-)

[geminiwench]

It sounds like as soon as you choose to "open your heart" to the music, you also discovered that you didn't *have* to do things, to learn things, to care about things the way your teachers were telling you to. You opened your heart, and now you're following your heart... and asking your teacher to listen to it *with* you... which is beautiful.

I thought about you during an amazing/long discussion I had with the local director of a regional classical performance festival. The festival is 50% adjudication/competition and 50% master classes for all levels... and she herself is a piano and voice teacher.
We were talking about how the competition helps some students challenge themselves, while the classes help some students challenge themselves and there is no "right way" to learn music... except practice and passion.

[egg_shell]

Yes, that idea of "opening one's heart" was the perfect thing for me to hear at that time. Just play "whatever" with passion and it'll all be alright. I'm so glad my teacher is open to that idea and is flexible!

[geminiwench]

So wonderful!! I'm so happy for you... just because after a couple years of reading you where you were harping on yourself and beating yourself up over the progressing on the piano (and then being injured and not being able to play for awhile)... and like overnight it went to letting all that performance baggage go and just... loving playing the piano for the fun of it.

And that didn't change because you suddenly got better,... it changed because your perspective changed. I think that is so damn beautiful!