Tag: piano
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the silliness of thinking…

When I was 19, I spent a month in Ghana. Inexplicably, in the months leading up to this, I pinned a strange hope on that trip: that when I came back, I’d be able to improvise on piano. (This is exactly as illogical as it sounds. True, I would be taking drum lessons and a…
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in pursuit of a piano

Adults are always telling kids they can be anything they want. But is that true? On paper, maybe, in places with lots of upward mobility. But on an existential level? Aren’t we inexorably drawn to certain things, by virtue of what we’re actually good at and interested in? I remember one day during my first…
