SUNDRY UTTERANCES

(Header image: Painting (Peinture) by Joan Miró. More information on the header image can be found on the Guggenheim website.) I love reading Maria Popova’s writings. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that Brain Pickings, her “one-woman labor of love — a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why” was — and remains — one of the most consistently enlightening and encouraging places on the web. It is a place to get introduced to artists and thinkers across genre and ti

Writing a piece of good music is not easy. If I had to estimate, I’d say something like 95% of the process is just failing in an impressive array of different ways. Then again, failing, done right, is not failing at all – it is learning. Looked at in that light, I’ve been learning a lot lately. Those that followed Connect . The . Dots have some sense of the many false starts and frustrations that accompany my creative process and, though I’d like to say that the pieces I’ve w