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Counting Fish
It was in Calaveras County, in the foothills of the Sierras in the ’60’s. I was 6. We went to a forestry preserve – maybe a fishery, and likely in Big Trees State park. We walked into a small flat meadow, where a forest ranger in short sleeves knelt...
I’m Seeing Friends
On Saturday, it became imperative I fill one wall of my studio with drawings of my – how do I say this – my 2-dimensional friends. It’s the only thing I know to call them. I’m not trying to be cute. I dragged the deskjet color printer up from the first floor. I...
The Man Who Wasn’t Yet
One of the books I didn’t write today is about a artist – a woman of a certain age – a performer – recently rejected by her long-term partner, who decides the best way to find the man of her dreams is to craft him – by starting a...
This is the gift
Yesterday, on the bike path, pedaling home from a stint at the Kickstand Cafe with my computer, there was a small group ahead of me on the path in sunlight that looked almost dusty: A mother – or grandmother – and a child. Like it would have been when I...
The first step to Real is Make-Believe
I’ve longed for a grand piano for years. Decades. Wednesday night I said: “Enough!” and I built one out of an old table, an electric keyboard, a music stand, a big swatch of black velvet and a long scarf. Then I sat down and played it. It was...
Is Poetry Music without Sound?
This is kind of how music looks in my mind. And I hear myself say this all the time: “The key to creative freedom is structure.” I don’t mean structure imposed from outside – but internal structure. Like bones. Like an arc. I ‘get’...
Can Freedom be Followed?
Today I have a free Webinar for Harp Players (or people who like to crash harp player events) called “Play with Freedom” marching to our own drummer (who is, supposedly, us?). So how could FOLLOWING someone else increase your personal creative freedom? how...
Play with Freedom! FREE Play-along Webinar July 5 at 4pm EDT
Do you wish you had the creative FREEDOM to just sit down and PLAY? What does that even mean? Is it something you either ‘have’ or don’t? Or … is it something you can learn? Find out – July 5th at 4pm EDT! Register for FREE online...
DHC returns to her Jazz roots on the Cape (Press Release)
=============== PRESS RELEASE – Run Through July 1, 2015 =============== Cape Cod Jazz Festival presents: A Night under the Stars at the with Deborah Henson-Conant Wed. July 1st, 2015 at 8:30pm? Wequassett Resort on Pleasant Bay, Chatham, Massachusetts 02633...
