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Magical Container (MKE, Wk 6)

Sometimes music is simply fun, and sometimes it’s soul-stirring. We were stirred last Sunday. I’m musical director of “Resonance”, the choir of the Unitarian Fellowship of Peterborough (Ontario). The choir sings once a month, and Nov 5th was our day to sing. We chose a lovely piece, Jason Shelton’s “All Lifted Hearts”, for that day. […]

MKMMA Week 21 — Heart Stance

I’ve played piano since I was seven years old. When I was in high school, my keyboard agility was easy, natural, and quite accomplished. I don’t know why, but sometime in my late 20’s or early 30’s that changed. There was no physical injury, but the ease went away, especially from my right hand. The […]

MKMMA Week 19 — Concentration & “Dream”

Our theme for the Sit, the meditation, this week is Concentration: become so absorbed in the object of your thought that you are conscious of nothing else… For years, when people asked me if I meditate, I would reply that my 60 to 90 minutes of piano practice first thing every morning just has to […]

MKMMA Week 18 — Awareness

Thought, Attention, Interest. Those three words are important in Haanel, Part 18. I’m also inclined to add the word Awareness. I promised Tony that I will record his piano piece, “Dream”, burn it to a CD and send it to him. The project is long overdue and I put it on my Service Card for this […]

MKMMA Week 15 — “Wild” Concert

We have an MKMMA assignment to watch some particular movies that depict people practicing principles that we are learning to embody in our MKMMA course. I watched “Wild” and see in it so many parallels to my experience. Cheryl is the heroine in “Wild”. Her goal, her Definite Major Purpose, was to break from her past and […]

MKMMA Week 10 — I Got Rhythm

In our MKMMA course we have been hearing lots of fascinating stuff about brain function. This gets into some of my favorite material to both study and teach about. Of the “seven intelligences”, one of my personal prime intelligences is ‘musical’, and I often hear people say that music and creativity are right brain skills. It’s […]

MKMMA Week 7 – A Choice of Wallpaper

My goodness the weeks are flying by in our program. We had a challenge-assignment this week — to not think any negative thought for one week. It was a bit softened with the option to catch ourselves in a negative thought & delete or reframe it within 7 seconds. Otherwise the assignment week STARTS OVER. Argh. Sounds […]