Finding my everyday YES!
Everyday I find the yes in life. It can be in the simplest things. Sometimes when I walk, I see things- and notice them. The… Read More »Finding my everyday YES!
Everyday I find the yes in life. It can be in the simplest things. Sometimes when I walk, I see things- and notice them. The… Read More »Finding my everyday YES!
I have been teaching for 24 years in higher education and nothing comes close to describing what the last year has entailed. Of course it… Read More »One Year Ago: My First Lockdown Video
The composer Jill Jarman composed the piece Resonance for me in 2014 and I’ve just revisited and recorded it as my final lockdown project. Resonance is… Read More »Resonance and Making Music
I’m getting ready for a concert on Thursday, November 19, 7:30pm GMT. Practise, practise, practise as my beloved teacher used to say. late night, early… Read More »Lockdown Concert Time! SAVE THE DATE!
Yesterday marked the end of one of my taught classes. I had online face to face meetings with a dozen masters students, to supplement their written work. I haven’t actually had conversations with so many people on one day in – well months. After that day of meetings and typing was done, I was exhausted, and I thought.
I miss them, now, and I anticipate missing them in the weeks to come.
After teaching ends there is normally a lull. A quiet descends. ‘It’ doesn’t end – there is an avalanche of marking, reading individual essays and providing useful comments, which consumes my time, but the seeing people ends.
In these past few months, by necessity, there has been less and less seeing of people.Read More »A little quieter