I was grateful to have a job. Unfortunately, I immediately knew that I didn’t want to work there long-term and actually started applying to other jobs the second week I was there.
To get excited to prep for a performance like this, I need more than an abstract idea or concept to build from – I need to connect the music to something deeply-felt. It wasn't hard to figure out what that should be.
I had started encountering a troubling reality that I was going to continue experiencing for the rest of my undergraduate degree. Math classes were a struggle – I got a C in calculus III. Too many B’s and C’s in math courses were going to make my grades suffer.
I have been winding up a year's study and practice in John Michael Greer's Way of the Golden Section. Just a few more days before I complete the year-long
I remember a feeling that the end of high school was an abyss’ edge that I was rapidly approaching. I had to pick something to dedicate my life to that could sustain me financially and I wasn’t clear what that should be.