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YOU. ARE. WHAT. YOU. THINK. Buddha: “get a grip on your mind” Me: “dude, I’m trying”

Yes, I did it again. Decided to take on another role in a local community theater production of … wait for it …

Last Fall, as I was closing down the garden irrigation for the Winter, the valve broke (plastic!). Luckily it broke in the off position. I held out hope I’d be able to clamp onto some part of the old valve with a pair of vice grips and turn it back on. But looking at it closely: nope. It was going to be a project. I started digging.

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.

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.

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).

Great project to work on but it was shortchanged. I had a performance on Friday, then got sick on Saturday.

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.

This week I split my efforts between two musical pursuits: practicing for a performance and practicing chord inversions on my accordion keyboard.

This week’s project is of a musical nature. And it has two parts, somewhat unrelated.