History tells us that we have always known to count on the power of music. We do not know of any culture, past or present, without music. Some say Neanderthals sang. We instinctively sing to crying babies, and to soothe people in pain. We sing and dance together to bond, to commemorate, and to commiserate. […]
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2020-6 “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive” by Stephanie Lane (2019) I “read” this book as an audio book in my car over the course of a week. I read “Maid” because, it was one of the recent bestsellers by an unknown female author around my age, along with “Educated”
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2020-6: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey (1989) Read as an audio book in the car over the course of a week. It’s been at least a week since I finished reading (listening to) this book. This morning, as I flipped through the pages of
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This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on March 5, 2020, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. The threat of Coronavirus has been disruptive. Around the globe, schools have been closed, stock market has plummeted, and events are being cancelled. In the meantime, a letter from a
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2020-5 “How to Win Friends and Influence People(1936)” by Dale Carnegie I listened to this book on Audible. I’ve vaguely known about this book since I was in high school. There are several reasons that compelled me to “read it” now, at this point in my life. I’ve been reading a lot of prescriptive nonfiction
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