Comments on: Ten years of this

By: mig

mig — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:54:50 +0000

PS I really like your compositions.

By: mig

mig — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:37:42 +0000

Thanks, Kyle. i’ll give that a try this week.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:35:47 +0000

I tell you Mig, I have been a composer for 17 years and a flutist for 26, and only in the past few months have I really learned how to pay attention when I practice. I guess I’m a slow learner! What I can recommend is to take several steps back in terms of the difficulty of what you’re practicing. Then set a timer for a small amount of time (5 to 7 minutes). When you’re “on the clock” you’re liable to pay more attention. And 7 solid minutes of only drawing the bow on your open D string, slowly and smoothly and evenly, and really listening to the sound and your body and how those go together, will produce results. I’ve found that practicing really fundamental things with intensity will make the harder stuff easier, but not the other way around. My seven pence.

By: Jann

Jann — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:42:24 +0000

Thank you, Mig. Actually, the part that broke is fine now, but the treatment for that damaged my ankle somehow, (I knew I shouldn’t have listened to the foot and ankle surgeon when he insisted that the unna boot was *not* too tight around my ankle); so now I have PT 3x/wk to try to fix my ankle, which was not originally injured.

By: mig

mig — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:14:09 +0000

hope your foot’s better now, jann.

By: Jann

Jann — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:02:47 +0000

Oh, and as a corollary to all the NCIS watching, I have decided, and my sister Adrienne agrees, that the world would be a better place if all women were just like Ziva David! (I am, of course, referring to a woman’s ability to defend herself.)

By: Jann

Jann — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:50:18 +0000

I know what you mean, Mig. I think most of us need the “mean little old Russian lady with a willow switch.” Like me, for instance. Even though I fell in April and broke a bone in my foot and was forced into relative inactivity, by which I mean I couldn’t walk very fast nor very far (still can’t), did I spend my time studying to improve my German? Well probably I spent a few minutes most day, “brief, unfocused” periods, but mostly I lay on the couch with my foot on a pillow watching reruns of NCIS. I vow to do better!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:29:04 +0000

Mig I hear you. I have an unfortunate love affair with stasis -glacially paced change of the not melting variety.

What interests me is the ten years. Does it seem like ten years? Does it seem like forever?

Why, when I so obviously require the “mean little old Russian lady with a willow switch” do I receive affirmation and grace? Recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that I must be “special” and I have not been in on this “special-ness” for most of my life. Everyone is just so delighted I’ve stopped screaming and can feed myself I suppose.

I observe change. I rarely feel myself make it. Whoa…that sounds like me at 15 full of angst and impatience. I have become ever so patient. Unfortunate.

By: mig

mig — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:25:24 +0000

It also occurs to me that part of the problem is my being okay with stasis, or glacial change. Change at a glacial pace, I mean, not change in actual glaciers, if by that you mean melting.