adrian varnam

What’s holding you back?: Giving the Gift of Music

I’m lucky.  I started violin lessons at 5 years old and really didn’t have much to worry about when it came to making those tough and early decisions, like:  Where do we find the money for lessons?  Which teacher should we choose?  Where in the world do we find a violin for a 5-year old [...]

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Creativity is Love

A Course In Miracles says that there are only two emotions: fear and love.  In the absence of one, there exists the other.  They’re opposites, antagonists, adversaries. In a previous post I wrote about a similar relationship between fear and creativity.  In the absence of one, there exists the other.  They’re opposites, antagonists, adversaries. Now, I’m sure [...]

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Creativity and Fear Make Strange Bedfellows

Last night I was having a quiet evening drinking a glass of wine with an old friend when she turned to me and asked me why I haven’t updated my website in a while.  For most sane people that wouldn’t be a big deal.  For us, not so much.  We’ve made an art out of [...]

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Do It Now

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.  A whole stream of events issues from the [...]

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Inspiration is the Patron Saint of Comfort Zones

Man.  Resistance is a bitch.  It’s relentless, it’s constant, and it hides itself as rationalization.  Every single moment of every single day. For two weeks now I’ve been sitting back and looking at my work, trying my hardest to figure out exactly what the hell I’m doing with all of this; the site, the writing, the [...]

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Why Having a Brain Is Like Having a 3-Year Old

Ever since I was a kid I’ve had problems sleeping.  Not falling asleep, mind you.  That’s the easy part.  It’s going back to sleep once I wake up in the middle of the night.  My head is filled with such clutter on a daily basis that when I wake up, all I can think about [...]

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