August 16, 2005 at 6:45 AM

After the last post's philosophical ramblings, a couple brief shameless plugs:

1. Looking to take on private students in the Cleveland area. Admittedly have virtually no teaching experience, but much performance and leadership experience and enthusiasm! I know there are many teachers on this site and as I'm sort of going into this blind, any advice would be thoughtfully considered and greatly appreciated. I am also checking out the past site discussions on teaching, so as not to make everyone rehash old information.

2. Details to come about my October 22nd Brahms Concerto performance with the Waukegan Symphony--if you're in the Chicago area, I'd love to see you there!

And another random musing: this site really cheers me up, which is bizarre in a good way. Anyone who knows me personally can tell you I'm not exactly a chipper person. I have a dark sense of humor, am too sensitive to personal and professional criticism, and get discouraged as quickly and easily as anyone else--perhaps more so if I'm being particularly self-critical. However, writing here makes me less afraid and ashamed of my inherent optimism. I have always believed in hope, while faith (though not at all in any sort of organized religion sense, and not necessarily exclusively of a supernatural deity) is an idea I've come to recently. I feel more and more lately that hope and faith go hand and hand--that happiness is not just a wish, but a belief. I may well turn out to be wrong the way I'm going, but I'll never really know until I plunge in with the belief in my head and heart and (literally) hands. Hey, it's worth a shot.

August 16, 2005 at 6:45 AM

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