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Seth Godin has pointed out that no marathon coach can promise, “I can teach you how to run a marathon without getting tired.” No, a marathon coach’s job is to teach you how to manage the tiredness. It’s important that vocal music educators understand that that’s our job, too. It’s […]
Brené Brown wrote in Rising Strong, “Daring is not saying, ‘I’m willing to risk failure.’ Daring is saying, ‘I know I will eventually fail and I’m still all in. Fortune may favor the bold, but so does failure.” (5) There are three steps we should be taking in the failure cycle built into living lives […]
We had beautiful camping weather this weekend…
Anyone can teach you, if you’re willing to listen.
This year, I’ve gotten more insistent to my students who are involved in multiple extracurriculars: I ask me to send them their sports or other schedule and a plan for equitable balance. The secret is, I often can and do look at their schedules myself. (They’re all online!) But I […]
Why do people go to football games? The answer, fundamentally, is simple. People go to football games because people go to football games. The history feeds into the present. At a big high school, there might be 5,000-10,000 fans in the stands for a Friday night game (or many more […]
In a recent interview with Mike Birbiglia, Malcolm Gladwell said, “I don’t believe in personality….There’s a whole philosophical and psychological tradition around this idea that we are so much a product of our situation and environment that it’s foolish to talk about personality. So, I’m baffled by this notion of […]
My family is wishing you peace and connection this holiday season. We made this little music video together just for you! Wishing you all a Happy Holidays! We’ve built a lot of skills this year in our house – singing, juggling, audio & video engineering. And we decided to put […]
The first thing that gets dropped when you get busy is long-term vision. You’re plowing onward through the deep snow of today’s to do list, and the long-term horizon is utterly obscured. It’s worthwhile to have a trusted colleague with whom you can schedule regular or irregular vision conversations. A […]
I am looking out my window at absolutely beautiful snow-covered trees. Beautiful but wrong. I want my trees to be snowy white in December, but when April rolls around, I am ready for clear roads for walking and driving, and warm sunny days for breathing in fresh air and seeing […]