Comments on: Can’t Get Started (Not Vernon Duke) http://www.lizhamill.com/2008/05/17/11/ A Common Listener, Keeping Still Music Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:04:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Liz http://www.lizhamill.com/2008/05/17/11/#comment-5 Liz Sun, 18 May 2008 20:01:53 +0000 http://www.lizhamill.com/?p=11#comment-5 @ Rosa Say I taught music for many years and found that the exchange is between myself and the student ended up kind of full circle. It was that very exchange that deepened my own knowledge and inspiration for the work. So too, your experience is showing the technique and your response is opening the way. Thank you for so much rare openness. @ Rosa Say I taught music for many years and found that the exchange is between myself and the student ended up kind of full circle. It was that very exchange that deepened my own knowledge and inspiration for the work. So too, your experience is showing the technique and your response is opening the way. Thank you for so much rare openness.

]]> By: Rosa Say http://www.lizhamill.com/2008/05/17/11/#comment-4 Rosa Say Sat, 17 May 2008 18:55:43 +0000 http://www.lizhamill.com/?p=11#comment-4 Dear Liz, What a gift this is, mahalo nui loa. And timed perfectly for me this sunny Saturday morning; I saw your reply on Twitter, and as I write this I have not even said a hello there yet for today, for I have been magnificently lost within the links you have offered here, so delighted with this chance to know you better (especially via your page at cdbaby.com) Funny how things happen (to paraphrase W.H. Murray, “Providence conspires”), for we have been connected by a bread crumb that somehow got carried on a fortuitous breeze to Andrew Dubber’s: I am such a foreigner to your world of music, appreciative of it to be sure, but admittedly very ignorant of it. As just one example, I had no idea who Vernon Duke was and had to look him up on Wikipedia! New learning is but one example of what becoming a “citizen publisher” on the web has done for me. Within the comments of the post you pointed to at my place, I added this from Stowe Boyd, “There is an African saying that says it is through other people that we become people.” When I began blogging I had a 3-decades old corporate career behind me; as a wife and mother I felt confident in thinking I knew who I was. Great as my life is, and has already been, blogging, and the willingness to break through that shell of privacy I once had, helped me understand that there was so much more abundance in the world. I think we are all aware of the world’s largesse, however I think we sell ourselves short in understanding how much of it we can personally connect to and engage in, —and thus influence. So much more reason to keep our aloha-spirited authenticity ever present! I will tell you to be a bit careful what you wish for Liz, for today, though I love every minute of my web-cradled “becoming people through other people” I find it can be tough to keep up with all those aloha conversations I wished for! Not tough to have them though: I have no regrets and would do it all over again for the joy it has brought me in meeting people and getting to know them —just as now, with you! Yet much as Twitter, my Tumblr, sites and blogs all seem in my life to stay (collectively what I call my Ho‘ohana Community, for I felt compelled to name the wonder), today my efforts are to consolidate somehow, and get my conversations to be in fewer places, a quality versus quantity endeavor, though that tired phrase seems to be inadequate for it… we shall see what this evolution #7 is to be called! Liz, do let me know whatever more I can do to support you. It seems to me that your music represents just as much impetus and richness as my book did for me: You have so much to share with the world! I am eager to continue learning from you. With much aloha, Rosa Dear Liz,
What a gift this is, mahalo nui loa. And timed perfectly for me this sunny Saturday morning; I saw your reply on Twitter, and as I write this I have not even said a hello there yet for today, for I have been magnificently lost within the links you have offered here, so delighted with this chance to know you better (especially via your page at cdbaby.com)

Funny how things happen (to paraphrase W.H. Murray, “Providence conspires”), for we have been connected by a bread crumb that somehow got carried on a fortuitous breeze to Andrew Dubber’s: I am such a foreigner to your world of music, appreciative of it to be sure, but admittedly very ignorant of it. As just one example, I had no idea who Vernon Duke was and had to look him up on Wikipedia! New learning is but one example of what becoming a “citizen publisher” on the web has done for me.

Within the comments of the post you pointed to at my place, I added this from Stowe Boyd, “There is an African saying that says it is through other people that we become people.” When I began blogging I had a 3-decades old corporate career behind me; as a wife and mother I felt confident in thinking I knew who I was. Great as my life is, and has already been, blogging, and the willingness to break through that shell of privacy I once had, helped me understand that there was so much more abundance in the world. I think we are all aware of the world’s largesse, however I think we sell ourselves short in understanding how much of it we can personally connect to and engage in, —and thus influence. So much more reason to keep our aloha-spirited authenticity ever present!

I will tell you to be a bit careful what you wish for Liz, for today, though I love every minute of my web-cradled “becoming people through other people” I find it can be tough to keep up with all those aloha conversations I wished for! Not tough to have them though: I have no regrets and would do it all over again for the joy it has brought me in meeting people and getting to know them —just as now, with you! Yet much as Twitter, my Tumblr, sites and blogs all seem in my life to stay (collectively what I call my Ho‘ohana Community, for I felt compelled to name the wonder), today my efforts are to consolidate somehow, and get my conversations to be in fewer places, a quality versus quantity endeavor, though that tired phrase seems to be inadequate for it… we shall see what this evolution #7 is to be called!

Liz, do let me know whatever more I can do to support you. It seems to me that your music represents just as much impetus and richness as my book did for me: You have so much to share with the world! I am eager to continue learning from you.

With much aloha,
Rosa

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