Take Time for Past Successes.

Hi, another blog on creativity, writing, art, music, and craftwork, fine art, and generating manifestations, we'll say. Every week I set a deadline at midnight Saturday for a blog on such. In the middle of the week I drop some art I have made and recently had documented on jpegs. I am the proud, ... and well-grounded CEO of sorts, ... of Purple Goat Publishing, LLC where everyone is an equal, a midwestern, near eastern United States business (twenty minutes due east) that has about a half dozen people (T.J.- chief business assistant, Fred-our computer tech guy, Marco-whom we have been co-consulting, a writer generating from zero to over fifty works originally from NYC, Eunice-chief filing and odds/ends, Terrance-our newest person, taking on formatting, One Stop's- Christine (vocational), Wm.H.-taxes, ideas, consultant. It seems that creating art of a multi-media nature has generated work. And ... giving work is a blessing.

It, to be honest has been difficult to focus on three hours/3-5 pp. a day on the writing and three hours on the business a day, juggling priorities, getting life on life's terms on the reins. Nevertheless I have managed to teach yoga once a week, do some art, painting recently selling a work at $160 for a comfortable creative session or two, kept the "domocile's 'landscape'" making progress, maintained friendships, family, updated keeping the computer in good sorts, ... ? Here is the hook. I have just spent the time listening to three or four hours of my compositions, mostly piano tunes. It is bringing back fond memories of 2007-8 where I spent twelve months taking sketches from 1995 onward and working them into enjoyable exercises. I used my Sibelius software being the standard in Europe much as Finale is used in the United States. Amongst the way I composed for the Miami String Quartet (Florida) worked w/ and befriended the at the same time Cleveland Orchestra's pianist, Jung Che Le. I took seminar for composition from the former flautist of the orchestra (Cleveland's), Alyson Russo, Yale graduate's J. Ferrito, MM (my tutor), and NYU's Hartzell who did sound for Laurie Anderson (electronic music.) Farther back I took P. Schroeder, a California jazz musician for e-music as well. Anyway I managed to crank out 250 compositions that year, three on Sunday, three throughout the work week. I also managed to tweak a knob to do sound for No World Improvisation, an "academic ethnomusicology group of a varying number containing MIDI sorts and various 'klangen farben-tone colors.' " I sat in w/ Dr. G.H. Nelsen, met J. Talbert who was so kind to help, vocalised an idea for a MIDI trombone solution (electronic measuring device used in land surveying scaled to the trombone in 1996 discussing ideas w/ a retired acoustical engineer from Washington state.) I performed street/stage at Oberlin College, another nearby university, ... . Now I sit on easily twenty-four hours recorded audio works of my original comps and studio guitar work. Persistent efforts pay off. And so does the Artists Way program, twelve weeks of vtime you will never regret. (Well, I am not completely abstinent. I practice a little Judaism! Logically. A lot I know!)

So playing now is CD nu. 15, track twenty, rather short tunes, strong seeds for something beyond the etude. So what? I am reaping the harvest, the yield, maybe early and conscious of such creative endeavors, projects I have taken on. Beware, caveat emptor/innocens, ... the loser comes in at the end. As in a footrace, as a project as well. Be forewarned and prepared and deal w/ it. Be free of such things as the baby/bath water issue. You want to walk away w/ the baby of a project in tact. You have earned it. Then ... celebrate successes. It has been ten years app. w/ the siege/binge composing year. Nearly enough time to master violin (I love klezmer.), classical/flamenco, and piano/keyboard foer new music, just a little more so if mastery is a process, no?

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T.E. and thanks again. Make art, not bombs. Yea and think some philosophy through. Our vote is for you, the creative individual !!!