Arts Education for Kids
No doubt about it: Arts education for kids has manifold benefits. Yet in countless schools around the world, the arts are getting short shrift. It’s beyond my scope to try to describe the many causes and reasons, to outline solutions. What I hope is to tap into your own experience of the arts, of creativity,...
Music Is Good for the Soul
Music is good for the soul, the spirit, our health. This we know. Even Plato said as much! And here’s Leonard Bernstein’s take on music: “Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning … except its own.” Recently I had occasion to...
Reflection Leads to Connection
I remember that most years I have relished Advent. After all, Adventus, the Latin root our the word, means “coming.” On reflection, I can feel into the expectant waiting, the pleasures, the promises of the coming weeks. This year there seems to be so much craziness in the world, the political weirdness added unto the commercial...
Basic Goodness
“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he/she listens to it and acts on it, he/she is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most.” –– Pablo Casals In the light of the recent and horrendous shooting in Orlando, I allowed myself to calm and settle when I came...
Music, of all the Arts…
Music is good for our soul and spirit. “Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning … except its own.” This is Leonard Bernstein’s take on music, and especially the first part lights me up this grey and rainy morning, the morning...
