If someone asked you why you write music, what would your answer be?  Here's my take....

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Organization reflects the underlying objective - the point of doing.  True for music, true for youtube videos; even true for stream of consciousness podcast episodes.  There's a cool trick in Youtube to make it very easy for viewers to navigate through long (meandering) content. 

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I have some specific goals around learning French ( to read Messiaen's "Treatise" is one).

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Terrence McKenna is a great influence on my work - how I think; how i think about what I think; and how i express those thoughts.

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Everything can be a lesson on the path of meditative awakening ( even my terrible, sloppy social media habits).  

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What is the 'It' that we're letting 'Be'?  What is the 'Be'? Some thoughts on the direction to 'just let it be as it is'.

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In a journal entry from 1946, Messiaen describes fragments and symbols for a ballet - a piece he never wrote.  It's fascinating and beautiful and I'd be interested what other composers listening to this think about it.

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I was out for a run this weekend and learned something important.  

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A sprawling episode...even more than usual, I guess.  Taking refuge is a gift of the meditation practice, and we can find reminders everywhere.  Including in musical moments, for example the second movement of Beethoven's last piano sonata.

Alfred Brendel playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_nFsCrEmXQ

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What combination of pens, pencils and paper do you use? Here's what's on my desk depending on if it's for work, journaling or music.

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