I think I can help. I feel very privileged. I am grateful for the world-class education in piano performance/music I received. I feel lucky every time I get to travel internationally to perform in various parts of the world. And through my daily, solitary practice for hours everyday, I have contemplated for decades on beauty, […]
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My soul-search on what I may have to offer to the world with my background and skill set has been leading me to many inspiring and fascinating encounters. One happened this past week at an amateur chamber music festival, ArtsAhimsa. Stephanie Engel, a flutist, humanitarian and psychiatrist, introduced me to the incorporation of music as
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One of my self-defining memories has to do with the way I look. I was about ten or eleven, leaning over a one-page newspaper advertisement. The ad was an open call to an annual nationwide beauty pageant in Japan for girls under, I think, sixteen years old. I studied the many small photos of the
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I love dark chocolates. Cacao, apparently, also boosts your metabolism. So, I eat it every morning, as a spoonful of cacao powder in my yogurt, and as two pieces of 88% dark chocolate squares. I got the 88% chocolate squares from someone that thought they tasted awful. She’d also bought it for the health benefits
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I’ve always loved writing. I started my first daily journal as a third grader, and didn’t skip a day for a year – I remember because my third-grade teacher awarded me a medal in front of my class for it. I started writing poems as a senior in high school and kept it up through