Looking for words

Found a picture.

About joy

Munich, Germany, 2004

I get caught up in violin for the violin itself; forgetting the purpose behind the tears and work I left behind in my childhood. As we exited a master class with Barbara Scowcroft of the Utah Symphony, my mom and I were struck by a lengthy quote posted on the wall of the Opera HQ.
I think there are only two other people who would be as touched by this as me: Mom, and my musical mentor Melanie Hoggan. I felt the truth resound within me as I read.

First, the arts teach children to exercise that most exquisite of capacities, the ability to make judgements in the absence of rules.

A second lesson the arts teach children is that problems can have more than one solution.

A third lesson is that aims can be held flexibly; in the arts the goal one starts out with can be changed midway in the process as unexpected opportunities arrive.

The arts also teach that neither words nor numbers define the limits of our cognition; we know more than we can tell.

Finally, the arts are about joy.

"Three Rs are Essential, but Don't Forget the A-- the Arts"

By Elliot W. Eisner

(from Los Angeles Times commentary, Jan. 3, 2005)

For shortness of sight

Pic from blushbybk.com

It's a bit late, but I loved General Conference this October. Nothing beats sitting in the Conference Center with 21,000 others, awed by the crowds and the close proximity to the prophet. And nothing beats curling up at home on a rainy Sunday with the fam. I love gaining insight while eating the best homemade cinnamon rolls.

My favorite thought was quoted by President Monson I believe, it has stuck with me...

I have wept in the night
For the shortness of sight

That to somebody's need made me blind;
But I never have yet
Felt a tinge of regret...
For being a little too kind.

-- Anonymous

It is all too true, and something I can work towards every day.

Forget and Not Slow Down

Relient K's new album, officially out on the sixth!
I've been missing your voice and your button-up shirts Matt...
The album is full of new sounds, inflections, and voices including Matt Macdonald from The Classic Crime.

I listened to a few of the tracks on playlist.com
It feels like cheating
But
...I'd rather forget and not slow down
Than gather regret for the things I can't change now
If I become what I can't accept
Resurrect the saint from within the wretch
Pour over me and wash my hands of it...
:)