“Are you beginning to feel like we might finally be emerging from this very long, dark, viral winter? I am beginning to have some seedlings of hope feel as if they are tentatively beginning to sprout…”
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“I almost didn’t get this post in today.
This week was a busy one, filled with tasks and preparations for this weekend’s Winter Lieder Lounge broadcast, and I allowed myself the luxury of a lazy day off today. I spent the morning watching a movie, followed by a long nap. This evening…”
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“Today was a rather unremarkable Tuesday filled with quotidian tasks and appointments. A chat with my accountant about taxes. A chat with another singer seeking advice about making an album. Sorting through my finances. A visit to the...”
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“The expression ‘When it rains, it pours,’ really feels applicable in an interesting way right now. In just the past six days, I have been approached by four different singers about advice on how to record an album. It’s exciting to see everyone’s independent spirit rising to the fore, and I wonder if this is perhaps a symptom of the lockdown…”
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“Today was an exceptionally beautiful California day, the kind for which we can feel extra grateful during this pandemic: ideal weather to be outside, allowing us to ease our covid isolation with a socially distanced soaking in of the sun…”
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“For much of the past year, most of my Monday evenings have begun with a book club meeting. Like many people I know, as the nation descended into a spring and summer of racial reckoning in the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, a circle of my friends from childhood formed a book club to digest and process the concepts that we were reading about in books like…”
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“Monday’s return after taking a weekend can always feel a bit jarring, but today’s beginning to the work week felt especially fast-paced and action-packed. Part of the reason for that is definitely because I became distracted by my phone this morning, and lost some of the precious early hours of the day to reading the news…”
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