Dec 22, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists |
Yesterday I got an email from a harpist wondering about whether to sign up for my 10-Week Strings of Passion course using the special that ends today … or to sign up for the full yearlong Hip Harp Academy. Her questions were so great that after several emails...
Dec 19, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, [Class-SOP] Strings of Passion |
In my new 10-week creative expression program “Strings of Passion” – which officially goes on sale just after Christmas – I give you the tools to take any creative idea from the spark of impulse to the exhilarating moment of creative...
Dec 18, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity |
My new creative expression program “Strings of Passion,” officially goes on sale just after Christmas (but if you’re on the “First to Know” list, you get a pre-launch special invite – with extra goodies – so sign up right now...
Dec 14, 2016 | Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning |
In my online school Hip Harp Academy there’s always a creative challenge at the end of each course. I call it the “Final-Beginning” project – the project that ends the course and begins your relationship to this new skill. In the fall course, “Arrange Yourself,”...
Dec 7, 2016 | Holidays, Recordings |
Here are my timeless Holiday treats that I love sharing! Each year the list grows: Gifts ideas, Holiday medleys created by students, “The Gift and The Giving” – a story to get you in the right mindset for a wonderful holiday month… and of course – my...
Nov 24, 2016 | Current Events |
As you may or may not know, I am the curator and founder of the Burnt Food Museum at BurntFoodMuseum.com – and this is one of my favorite stories anyone has sent me about burnt food – and it’s Thanksgiving themed: “I put a turkey into the oven...
Nov 24, 2016 | Creativity |
Years ago when I first started playing the harp, I played in dining rooms in posh hotels – the kinds of places I would never go to eat myself. I’ve never been a holiday-focused celebrant, so I always volunteered to work – meaning, to play – on...
Nov 17, 2016 | Birthdays, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Harping & Harpists, Harps |
I’ve been promoting the art of celebration through a single song lately – and last night I had a crisis of conviction. There’s so much uncertainty about what’s really happening here in the U.S. after the recent election, I found myself thinking...
Nov 11, 2016 | Uncategorized |
After half-a-century, of being a musician, here’s how I see success: Success is like how I imagine surfing – though I’ve never surfed. You get out there with your board. You wait for a wave and when it comes, you paddle like mad. If you catch it, you ride as...