Comments on: Day 40: Using what I learned http://www.darxyanne.com/2009/12/day-40-using-what-i-learned/ Oh that there was a tidy little phrase that could sum up everything I want to say to the world Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grace http://www.darxyanne.com/2009/12/day-40-using-what-i-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Grace Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:55:29 +0000 http://www.darxyanne.com/?p=894#comment-255 Oh Darcy, this is so rich. I'll wait until the next time I see you to really respond, but wow, I'm percolating with feelings and thoughts. Especially now that I've just had my childhood piano moved to my house—it came with lots of other stuff! I can totally identify with Deb but really appreciate hearing about you! xooxoxoxoxoxox. And I promise not to play Xmas carols on the piano, in solidarity! Oh Darcy, this is so rich. I’ll wait until the next time I see you to really respond, but wow, I’m percolating with feelings and thoughts. Especially now that I’ve just had my childhood piano moved to my house—it came with lots of other stuff! I can totally identify with Deb but really appreciate hearing about you! xooxoxoxoxoxox. And I promise not to play Xmas carols on the piano, in solidarity!

]]> By: Darcy http://www.darxyanne.com/2009/12/day-40-using-what-i-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Darcy Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:24:37 +0000 http://www.darxyanne.com/?p=894#comment-253 Can we all just pause for a moment and reflect on the coolness of the internet to have reunited me with one of my childhood best friends? I think that's pretty freaking cool. I poo-poohed Facebook for a while, but here's Debbie Murray back in my orbit, and I love it. Deb, it's so ironic but not at all surprising that I envied your piano practice and you envied my freedom. I do sincerely adore piano music, too, so that pure love is mixed in with the baggage. I ought to have mentioned that. :) I also wish I had mentioned that I never uttered my desire to play piano <em>out loud</em> as a kid and only found out later that we could maybe have gotten a piano from my stepmother's parents if only I had piped up. Damnit! You are totally right that a support network is key. I have that for weaving, and it makes such a huge difference. Wish I could be there to hear your Xmas music! Can we all just pause for a moment and reflect on the coolness of the internet to have reunited me with one of my childhood best friends? I think that’s pretty freaking cool. I poo-poohed Facebook for a while, but here’s Debbie Murray back in my orbit, and I love it.

Deb, it’s so ironic but not at all surprising that I envied your piano practice and you envied my freedom. I do sincerely adore piano music, too, so that pure love is mixed in with the baggage. I ought to have mentioned that. :) I also wish I had mentioned that I never uttered my desire to play piano out loud as a kid and only found out later that we could maybe have gotten a piano from my stepmother’s parents if only I had piped up. Damnit!

You are totally right that a support network is key. I have that for weaving, and it makes such a huge difference. Wish I could be there to hear your Xmas music!

]]> By: Deb Murray Charlebois http://www.darxyanne.com/2009/12/day-40-using-what-i-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Deb Murray Charlebois Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:41:06 +0000 http://www.darxyanne.com/?p=894#comment-252 Darc, I was so envious of your freedom when we were kids!! And it's true that my parents did "make" me practice, but playing was something I was passionate about to begin with (and still am, when I carve out the time!)... I've found over the years that when I do find activities/interests that I really care about pursuing, I seek out a support system (person/s) related to that activity that helps me be energized enough to keep going with it! I've never been a good "solo act"....and I recognize that I need compadres to help push me along - but to be most effective, they're also wrapped up in whatever it is that I want to do! Thanks for sending me the link, I think I'll go play some Christmas music on my old upright now (yes, the same one I learned how to play on 30+ yrs ago!)... :) Love you!! Darc, I was so envious of your freedom when we were kids!! And it’s true that my parents did “make” me practice, but playing was something I was passionate about to begin with (and still am, when I carve out the time!)…
I’ve found over the years that when I do find activities/interests that I really care about pursuing, I seek out a support system (person/s) related to that activity that helps me be energized enough to keep going with it! I’ve never been a good “solo act”….and I recognize that I need compadres to help push me along – but to be most effective, they’re also wrapped up in whatever it is that I want to do!
Thanks for sending me the link, I think I’ll go play some Christmas music on my old upright now (yes, the same one I learned how to play on 30+ yrs ago!)… :)
Love you!!

]]> By: Darcy http://www.darxyanne.com/2009/12/day-40-using-what-i-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Darcy Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:04:13 +0000 http://www.darxyanne.com/?p=894#comment-250 Oh, Elise! That sucks. Your story makes me think of how my stepmother dealt with all the stuff that belonged to us kids when they moved after we were in college/living on our own. She boxed it all up, color-coded the boxes (different color for each kid), put it in storage, paid the rent for a year and said that we had that long to get our stuff out and after that we could kiss it goodbye. It worked! I'm totally annoyed on your behalf that she acts like storing that thing rent-free in your house is acceptable. I wonder how she'd like to store something that big for you? People! What is with them?! Oh, Elise! That sucks. Your story makes me think of how my stepmother dealt with all the stuff that belonged to us kids when they moved after we were in college/living on our own. She boxed it all up, color-coded the boxes (different color for each kid), put it in storage, paid the rent for a year and said that we had that long to get our stuff out and after that we could kiss it goodbye. It worked!

I’m totally annoyed on your behalf that she acts like storing that thing rent-free in your house is acceptable. I wonder how she’d like to store something that big for you? People! What is with them?!

]]> By: Elise Paxson http://www.darxyanne.com/2009/12/day-40-using-what-i-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Elise Paxson Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:36:12 +0000 http://www.darxyanne.com/?p=894#comment-249 Ohh, so much here, so little time! This is slightly off your topic -- but -- we have a piece of what I call "toxic furniture." It's a 1920s-era sideboard that belongs to my sister-in-law. We took it in TEMPORARILY when she moved and didn't have room for it. This sideboard is too big for our living room and I keep wanting that space back. We've tried to get her permission to sell it, but she pushes back with something like, "Rachel (her daughter) might want it someday..." etc etc. So we have this sideboard that isn't wanted, can't be given away or sold, and my sister-in-law can't take it back, and we're stuck in the darn middle. This is not what you meant about your piano, I know -- but you touched a button and I needed to get this out. Keep the piano! I wish I had one! Ohh, so much here, so little time! This is slightly off your topic — but — we have a piece of what I call “toxic furniture.” It’s a 1920s-era sideboard that belongs to my sister-in-law. We took it in TEMPORARILY when she moved and didn’t have room for it. This sideboard is too big for our living room and I keep wanting that space back. We’ve tried to get her permission to sell it, but she pushes back with something like, “Rachel (her daughter) might want it someday…” etc etc. So we have this sideboard that isn’t wanted, can’t be given away or sold, and my sister-in-law can’t take it back, and we’re stuck in the darn middle.

This is not what you meant about your piano, I know — but you touched a button and I needed to get this out. Keep the piano! I wish I had one!

]]> By: Darcy http://www.darxyanne.com/2009/12/day-40-using-what-i-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-248 Darcy Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:28:54 +0000 http://www.darxyanne.com/?p=894#comment-248 Ooh, I haven't read it, and it looks like just my cup of tea. Thanks for the tip! :) Ooh, I haven’t read it, and it looks like just my cup of tea. Thanks for the tip! :)

]]> By: Calix http://www.darxyanne.com/2009/12/day-40-using-what-i-learned/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Calix Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:05:54 +0000 http://www.darxyanne.com/?p=894#comment-247 Have you read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Never-Too-Late-Musical-Story/dp/0201567636 You might enjoy it! Have you read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Never-Too-Late-Musical-Story/dp/0201567636

You might enjoy it!

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