I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
~John Cage (US Composer, 1912-1992)
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Remember Your Thrills On Blueberry Hills
Turns out drinking blueberries boosts memory and improves learning. A recent study from the American Chemical Society said that, “These preliminary memory findings are encouraging and suggest that consistent supplementation with blueberries may offer an approach to forestall or mitigate neurodegeneration.”
Geurrilla Practice
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. ~Henry Kissinger The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea. ~Mao Zedong ______________ What do you do with your down time? On the train or bus, walking with your hands in your…
Slow Time
It seems necessary to riff on aspects of time lately, so here I go again. In an earlier post I mentioned the benefits of taking the Long Now approach to time, seeing yourself playing in the future, simply sticking with it. If four year olds and marshmallows rings a bell, you’ll remember from another post…
Time Is On Your Side
Music is the art that defines one’s relationship to Time. –Stravinsky Time is one of the fundamental underpinnings of music. Without time, music has no space in which to unfold. Within the space of a piece of music, the sounds can be measured and regular and cyclical, like most music, or it can be more…
Confusion is Your Friend
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all…
For the Record: The Blame Game
I have two practices: music and writing. In a lot of ways they’re related: they both take focused practice if there is to be improvement. They both arise from the sea of words or sounds in which we’re immersed from birth and from which we drink and somehow make our own. But there is a…
8 Secrets of Success
Well, there’s certainly a lot more to be said about the details of how to achieve each of these “secrets,” but this short and sweet TED talk by Richard St. John is a good place to start. It’s no coincidence that “practice, practice, practice” is in there! Check it…. Want to learn more about the…
Creative Practice
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. Arthur Koestler Some thinkers about creativity identify two different types: Creativity and creativity, or “Big C” and “Little c.” Some believe that “true” creativity is only that which contributes to changes in the way we think or…
Thoreau Was Right
What do you think they found?
Turns out that the students who read the directions written with the simple font were much more open to exercising and thought the regime would take less time and be more fluid and easy and were willing to make exercise a regular part of the day.
The Practice of Practice 