Slogan: Living in the Present
Today I wasn't in the best of moods. There was nothing I could do about it and that made things worse. So, I went and got my hair done, it really needed it and it feels much better. I came back and sat down with my harp to work on the piece using both hands. Its hard to do right now because Ch'ng is very clingy and would love to just hang out on my lap. She really seems to need to be near me lately. Luckily, I have an over-sized wingbacked chair that we both fit into comfortably while I play music. She really likes it if I play for a long long time and she just relaxes into it.
I enjoyed the experience of sitting down and working away on the music the way I like to, as much time as I wanted to and a piece that gives me a bit of a challenge without forcing myself into a really difficult place and then knocking me when I don't do well. Think I need to learn to be a good friend to me.
For today the slogan means that I am thinking of what I have to do this day and when I am doing something that I focus on it with no desire to try to multi-task. I'm sure it will be a good way to approach many things in life but for now, just being able to sit down with music and totally focus on it till I look up and realize that I am done, is the best I can hope for.
Cheers, Meg
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Slogan: Living in the Present
So, I have gotten the beginnings of the work done; then, on Monday mornging, I started to work on 'Rickshaw Ride' right after coming back from walking Ch'ng and wouldn't you know it, there were guys on the roof next door starting to re-roof the building. I tried changing rooms and it didn't work. I knew at that point the day was not going to be very productive. Last evening I couldn't get into it, I had a class to get to and I was tired. I made an attempt this morning, but those guys came back. This atmosphere is not conducive ifor getting work done. Apparently, these guys don't care that they are bothering people, they like their work, lucky them :) The best part of having a dog is that she will have to walk again tomorrow and I'll get another opportunity to go for a walk and make another stab at my new routine. I'm going to do what everyone says and try ot mellow out and let things be what they are . . . . by end of day today, I was no longer able to be that easy-going, and I'm bored with not being able to do anything at all.
Okay, I'm getting pretty tired so I need to go use the puffers and then start getting ready to call it a day.
Meg:)
So, I have gotten the beginnings of the work done; then, on Monday mornging, I started to work on 'Rickshaw Ride' right after coming back from walking Ch'ng and wouldn't you know it, there were guys on the roof next door starting to re-roof the building. I tried changing rooms and it didn't work. I knew at that point the day was not going to be very productive. Last evening I couldn't get into it, I had a class to get to and I was tired. I made an attempt this morning, but those guys came back. This atmosphere is not conducive ifor getting work done. Apparently, these guys don't care that they are bothering people, they like their work, lucky them :) The best part of having a dog is that she will have to walk again tomorrow and I'll get another opportunity to go for a walk and make another stab at my new routine. I'm going to do what everyone says and try ot mellow out and let things be what they are . . . . by end of day today, I was no longer able to be that easy-going, and I'm bored with not being able to do anything at all.
Okay, I'm getting pretty tired so I need to go use the puffers and then start getting ready to call it a day.
Meg:)
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Slogan: Living in the Present
Hye I'm back with the selection for the week. It is a piece that I found in a book for piano, which I was able to work into two hands on the harp. 'Rickshaw Ride' has that delightful little Oriental sound that I like, it gives me the sense of creating a much more difficult piece in a very short period of time. Plus, the bonus is that I will be able to play this one with both hands, immediately.
Okay, let's see how things go this week.
M :)
Hye I'm back with the selection for the week. It is a piece that I found in a book for piano, which I was able to work into two hands on the harp. 'Rickshaw Ride' has that delightful little Oriental sound that I like, it gives me the sense of creating a much more difficult piece in a very short period of time. Plus, the bonus is that I will be able to play this one with both hands, immediately.
Okay, let's see how things go this week.
M :)
Slogan: Living in the Present
Hye Jolks,
I know, it seems like I have already started a bad pattern, missing the second day of my new regime. I was not doing nothing, I was taking a look at all the music and what I want to start with, trying to find some new pieces that will give me the practice that I want each time I come to my beautiful Daria, and be ablt to say,"What a dream come true, to be able to play this lovely instrument everyday".
As you can see from my latest slogan, I am beginning to see how only being in the present an d work in the moment-to-moment attitude that doesn't look forward or back and let all the big, negative emotions come up and change my focus. Taking my focus off the music is the only thing that this exercise will accomplish. Worry over the future and regrets of the past use up all the energy that could be put to better use. This is the slogan that I am going to use regularly, at least for the present, lol.
Right now I have too many selections to say that I know what I am going to work on for the coming week, but I am sure that by the end of the day I will have chosen the one and will let you know, immediately.
Have a lovely Sunday,
Meg :)
Hye Jolks,
I know, it seems like I have already started a bad pattern, missing the second day of my new regime. I was not doing nothing, I was taking a look at all the music and what I want to start with, trying to find some new pieces that will give me the practice that I want each time I come to my beautiful Daria, and be ablt to say,"What a dream come true, to be able to play this lovely instrument everyday".
As you can see from my latest slogan, I am beginning to see how only being in the present an d work in the moment-to-moment attitude that doesn't look forward or back and let all the big, negative emotions come up and change my focus. Taking my focus off the music is the only thing that this exercise will accomplish. Worry over the future and regrets of the past use up all the energy that could be put to better use. This is the slogan that I am going to use regularly, at least for the present, lol.
Right now I have too many selections to say that I know what I am going to work on for the coming week, but I am sure that by the end of the day I will have chosen the one and will let you know, immediately.
Have a lovely Sunday,
Meg :)
Friday, September 17, 2010
Slogan: To Challenge Myself
Hello Friends,
Well, I have passed my anniversay date of Lavor Day to summarize the past year of blogs and I am not very impressed with my progress. First, I had very few entries for the entire year, nowhere near one for each day, or even 5 days per week. If that is what putting a chllaenge out there to myself is like then I'd better do something different. I did have a very lumpy time starting around the long weekend, ending up with me doing 2 days and nights in the E R due to this asthmas attack from hell. I didn't do very well for a couple of days, but I'm back home doing complete bed rest and lots of heavy meds to get things going again; four days later I'm starting to feel like its making a difference in my condition. Well, that's all fine, but where is the dedication and determination it takes to keep going when things aren't going smoothly, life has lumps, you have to keep going, you have to work away at things. What happens if you decide that taking the dog for walks is too trouble and treat it like a stuffed animal? Oh, you know what happens, you have to replace your carpets and probly lots of things that have been chewed and destroyed as they are telling you how angry they are. so, why then do you take on an instrument that calls out to be loved and cared for as your dog does and yet it sits in the corner pleading for attention?
I haven't actually looked at the posts I entered, it seems like it was such a tiny amount and didn't really represent any ups & downs, highs & lows, working thru hardships, or reaching the achievements, no anguish or celebrating. It was really just an exercise in futility, nothing anyone would care to read and feel confident that they would get another installment, just leave the reader hanging isn't going to be good enough if you want to actually have a following. Why did you decide to take this activity on? Because I thot it would be a very good way to write article-style entries and discover how to write work that I might one day have a real audience. So, what happened? Well, it seems that I allow a lot of emotional issues to get in the way and I quit when I can't continue in the same mindset. I have this idea that I have to write in the voice of a novelist creaating fictional work, or worse, like technical papers.
That just isn't what these blogs are about; they are giving you the opportunity to write your own version of what you are doing, how you are going about it, and all the ups & downs that it has taken to get you to the point of final achievement. This is the story of your journey that it takes to get you learning how to be the best harpist that you possibly can be, the emotions it takes to get you to the level of excellence that you apire to; stop writing fiction and start digging deep and tell the truth.
Okay, guess I've been told. I will return tomorrow with the first installment of the new year, having the details of what I am working on at present. Maybe this will be a good exercise in which I can learn to "Be In The Present" I can see using that as my singular slogan for the year, not changing them each month. Stop worrying about asthetics and get the work done. Or next year, it will be 'get at it fool'. ha ha ha lol.
Well, this has certainly been fun,
Meg
Hello Friends,
Well, I have passed my anniversay date of Lavor Day to summarize the past year of blogs and I am not very impressed with my progress. First, I had very few entries for the entire year, nowhere near one for each day, or even 5 days per week. If that is what putting a chllaenge out there to myself is like then I'd better do something different. I did have a very lumpy time starting around the long weekend, ending up with me doing 2 days and nights in the E R due to this asthmas attack from hell. I didn't do very well for a couple of days, but I'm back home doing complete bed rest and lots of heavy meds to get things going again; four days later I'm starting to feel like its making a difference in my condition. Well, that's all fine, but where is the dedication and determination it takes to keep going when things aren't going smoothly, life has lumps, you have to keep going, you have to work away at things. What happens if you decide that taking the dog for walks is too trouble and treat it like a stuffed animal? Oh, you know what happens, you have to replace your carpets and probly lots of things that have been chewed and destroyed as they are telling you how angry they are. so, why then do you take on an instrument that calls out to be loved and cared for as your dog does and yet it sits in the corner pleading for attention?
I haven't actually looked at the posts I entered, it seems like it was such a tiny amount and didn't really represent any ups & downs, highs & lows, working thru hardships, or reaching the achievements, no anguish or celebrating. It was really just an exercise in futility, nothing anyone would care to read and feel confident that they would get another installment, just leave the reader hanging isn't going to be good enough if you want to actually have a following. Why did you decide to take this activity on? Because I thot it would be a very good way to write article-style entries and discover how to write work that I might one day have a real audience. So, what happened? Well, it seems that I allow a lot of emotional issues to get in the way and I quit when I can't continue in the same mindset. I have this idea that I have to write in the voice of a novelist creaating fictional work, or worse, like technical papers.
That just isn't what these blogs are about; they are giving you the opportunity to write your own version of what you are doing, how you are going about it, and all the ups & downs that it has taken to get you to the point of final achievement. This is the story of your journey that it takes to get you learning how to be the best harpist that you possibly can be, the emotions it takes to get you to the level of excellence that you apire to; stop writing fiction and start digging deep and tell the truth.
Okay, guess I've been told. I will return tomorrow with the first installment of the new year, having the details of what I am working on at present. Maybe this will be a good exercise in which I can learn to "Be In The Present" I can see using that as my singular slogan for the year, not changing them each month. Stop worrying about asthetics and get the work done. Or next year, it will be 'get at it fool'. ha ha ha lol.
Well, this has certainly been fun,
Meg
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