2025 was a year of taking a chance on myself, and building local community. Let's start with a message I sent to my musician friends back in February 2025: My theme for this year is "do what scares me". I'm trying to take more
I've been learning a lot about teaching music from my University, and we talk about "teaching to play musically". It's kind of a self-recurring idea, "playing musically". If you're playing music, surely that's musical, right? It'
For a year, I let my closest friend's style and attitude be the guide for how I approached my usual fear of judgement. Growing up I was afraid of that kind of carefree energy. I was afraid of being perceived, or giving out energy without it being reciprocated.
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