Procrastadabbler

An amazing orchestra put together through auditions conducted through youtube.

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There’s a movement in psychology called “Positive Psychology.” It works to understand what people do in their lives to be happier. One of the things the researchers have found is that happier people take the time to identify those things in their lives for which they are grateful. My husband and I have tried to [...]

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As a child my exposure to music was pretty limited. It was church hymns, German ethnic stuff, and the rock and roll I heard on my friends’ radios and finally on the little transitor my Uncle Diff gave me. In high school I listened to top 40 radio (FM was just coming on the scene). [...]

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I’ve been somewhat out of the loop in terms of new music releases. When I work, I can’t listen to anything with lyrics (I get too distracted), and when I drive I tend to listen to NPR. I tend to rely heavily on Pandora.com when I do have music on. It’s convenient. I’ve created a [...]

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Two things I read this weekend that somewhat shook my thinking.
First, the way in which country music or country and western music is looked down upon as being not good, or less than, or less than intellectual, or popular, or superficial, or whatever perjorative term you wish to use. The author made the point that [...]

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