Weekly Projects? Taking A Break.
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Taking a little hiatus from weekly projects for a bit. I think limiting each project to one week is too confining for my taste. So, they will be back but with a change. I’ll probably just call them Projects.
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2018
WP#6 Wrap Up
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This week I continued working on some hand separation exercises. There wasn’t much time devoted to it, but what I did do was surprisingly effective. I’m really encouraged and will keep working on this.
2017
Weekly Project #6: Right and left hand separation continued
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Last week I started working on one of my pet peeves, my inability to attain the dual processing that is required to play piano or accordion (or some other similar instrument).
WP#5 Wrap Up
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Great project to work on but it was shortchanged. I had a performance on Friday, then got sick on Saturday.
Weekly Project #5: Right and Left Hand Separation
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This is a biggie for me. As an adult learner, I don’t have the benefit of a young, plastic brain to have learned the “dual processing” that is achieved when a young person becomes proficient on the piano.
WP#4 Wrap Up
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This week I split my efforts between two musical pursuits: practicing for a performance and practicing chord inversions on my accordion keyboard.
Weekly Project #4: Chord Inversions And A Performance
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This week’s project is of a musical nature. And it has two parts, somewhat unrelated.
WP#3 Wrap Up
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I tried taking on a rewiring project for my old RV. It appears I bit off more than I could chew for my experience level and the time I had. The weather was a partial factor. Anyway, it’s far from done. I did learn a lot though and I’m keen to continue ‘cause ’lectricity is fun!
Weekly Project #3 (Part One): Rewire the Beaver.
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For this week’s project I’m going to begin rewiring the Beaver! The Beaver is my 1973 Dodge RV. It is my mobile hovel away from the hovel. I have never done anything like this before and I’m looking forward to whacking on this thing.
WP#2 Wrap-up
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For this week’s project I read 3 books and enjoyed them all.
When Breath Becomes Air is an emotional and moving memoir by a highly recognized Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, who becomes sick with lung cancer and struggles with meaning in his last days of life. It was a beautiful, haunting, indispensable and compelling read. I say indispensable because I think we could all benefit from asking this question of ourselves: what is truly meaningful and worth living for? This book takes that on and more, and made me think a lot about this. I’m sure I will keep pondering the central message of this book, and for that I’m very grateful.