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, [...]

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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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The Revolution Starts Now

As I look back over my life I see a lot of disappointment.  I see friends and family that I’ve let down.  I see dreams unfulfilled.  I see grandiose ideas that have never come to fruition despite telling people in my life that they were imminent.  Always about to happen.  Just wait until tomorrow.  Just [...]

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