Simple Resolutions
A bit late in posting this one for the new year, perhaps, but the advice is always relevant. We did just start the semester. Take this one to heart, dear students, and have a great Spring 2010!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Once More With Feeling: What are you doing this for?
Once More With Feeling: What are you doing this for?
I came home from Sunday School today only to get whacked in the head by a few blog posts. No suprise to me that Susan Eichhorn-Young had the first one - she always manages to provoke me into thinking about what I'm doing and why. Been doing a lot of that lately, but I'm realizing I'm being called to some kind of action and direction that is not certain - to me, at any rate. Will it include everything about me now? Of course - our past always influences us in some way. But how and why - and what we do with it makes all the difference. The results of the spiritual gifts survey we took at church showed me that I have been ignoring the healing call that has been on my life since I was a child (I didn't want to be the usual things - other than a performer, I looked at physical therapy as a career in junior high; my first major as an undergrad was music therapy; and now I find the healing arts (Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique) far more appealing than going back for a doctorate (unless it could combine some aspects of those two therapies.)
Looking back over what I've just written, it sounds like I'm leaving the performing arts. I don't think so. Not yet, anyways. Interesting that today's Sunday School discussion turned to our individual calls. When asked, I answered "I"m not sure." (Normally am pretty quiet - a surprise to my students, I'm sure). Where this journey will take me, I'm not quite certain. Thoughts to follow.
I came home from Sunday School today only to get whacked in the head by a few blog posts. No suprise to me that Susan Eichhorn-Young had the first one - she always manages to provoke me into thinking about what I'm doing and why. Been doing a lot of that lately, but I'm realizing I'm being called to some kind of action and direction that is not certain - to me, at any rate. Will it include everything about me now? Of course - our past always influences us in some way. But how and why - and what we do with it makes all the difference. The results of the spiritual gifts survey we took at church showed me that I have been ignoring the healing call that has been on my life since I was a child (I didn't want to be the usual things - other than a performer, I looked at physical therapy as a career in junior high; my first major as an undergrad was music therapy; and now I find the healing arts (Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique) far more appealing than going back for a doctorate (unless it could combine some aspects of those two therapies.)
Looking back over what I've just written, it sounds like I'm leaving the performing arts. I don't think so. Not yet, anyways. Interesting that today's Sunday School discussion turned to our individual calls. When asked, I answered "I"m not sure." (Normally am pretty quiet - a surprise to my students, I'm sure). Where this journey will take me, I'm not quite certain. Thoughts to follow.
Monday, January 11, 2010
The Golden Rule of Writing | Write to Done
Here's a post that I saved for a blog post - not only for my renewed writing habit, but also for my voice students. Consider this an exhortation to not let a single word or acting choice slip by you! Am renewing that commitment myself, along with a commitment to continue improving my language skills. I ran into a piece I loved performing, but I ran into a problem with one word. I was pretty sure I knew what it meant, but couldn't find it in any dictionary, and the French specialists around me couldn't help either. I finally located program notes from one of the few published CDs of the work (darn mp3s - I miss liner notes from both CDs and LPs - they were such useful tools!). Turns out those of us that made an educated guess were correct, but while I was uncertain, guess where I had a problem with the song? Yep. The phrase with that word in it. Do you homework!
Here's a post that I saved for a blog post - not only for my renewed writing habit, but also for my voice students. Consider this an exhortation to not let a single word or acting choice slip by you! Am renewing that commitment myself, along with a commitment to continue improving my language skills. I ran into a piece I loved performing, but I ran into a problem with one word. I was pretty sure I knew what it meant, but couldn't find it in any dictionary, and the French specialists around me couldn't help either. I finally located program notes from one of the few published CDs of the work (darn mp3s - I miss liner notes from both CDs and LPs - they were such useful tools!). Turns out those of us that made an educated guess were correct, but while I was uncertain, guess where I had a problem with the song? Yep. The phrase with that word in it. Do you homework!
Billeves�es: Julie Andrews
A blog post about one of my primary inspirations in my singing - Julie Andrews. I grew up listening to and singing with her on my parents' cast albums from My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, and Camelot. Good thing I turned out to be a soprano!
A blog post about one of my primary inspirations in my singing - Julie Andrews. I grew up listening to and singing with her on my parents' cast albums from My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, and Camelot. Good thing I turned out to be a soprano!
Huhns.org - 18 Tips on Starting a New Habit
For my students, an inspirational post. Pick one area you know you need to work on and focus on it for the semster using the ideas in the this blog post. (Pick one - more than that and you could end up defeating yourself.)
For my students, an inspirational post. Pick one area you know you need to work on and focus on it for the semster using the ideas in the this blog post. (Pick one - more than that and you could end up defeating yourself.)
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