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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, [...]

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Are You With Me?

A variation of this post was first published in The Beat Magazine.  Although it was written with Wilmington, NC in mind, it could apply to many others cities and towns across the country. A respected and popular musician that I’ve known for years, Scott Miller, likes to shout out frequently to the crowd during his [...]

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