I finished writing the slow mvt of my new quartet today. Very excited and relieved to reach the double bar.

The restorative power of reconnecting with one’s creativity, however massive or meagre it may be, always astonishes me. It’s sad that too often, we drive people to set aside their creative gifts on the grounds that their are more important things to be done, there’s no market for their work, or there are greater talents about. Everyone has the right to create. Everyone has the right to find space in their life to create.

Fellow Earthlings- go forth and write your poems, paint your pictures, play your blues and work out your fugues! And when you’re done, take a second to check out that which your child, your friend, your spouse or your neighbor has been creating in the meantime. If we all did these things more often, life would be richer, our tread would be lighter and smiles would be easier to come by.