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Midtown's Expo Square is an attraction in itself, with the 76-foot Golden Driller poised at its entrance inviting all to experience any of the 400 exciting events held here every year.
In addition, Expo Square is home to many Tulsa attractions - the Tulsa State Fair with its Oklahoma Sugar Art Show; Fair Meadows horse racing and simulcast; Big Splash Water Park; and one of the nation's finest equine and livestock facilities. Many national and international horse shows return year after year because of the Square's fine facilities. These competitions and shows are held throughout the year, bringing enjoyment to both the participants and the thousands of viewers in the stands.
Expo Square's QuikTrip Center, one of the world's largest clear span buildings, offers 350,000 square feet of column-free event space under a cable-suspended roof that lights up at night. The historic 1932 Pavilion, renowned for its colorful Art Deco architecture, is the Center's crown jewel. Ask it to transform from an ice surface to a basketball court to a concert stage, and it easily obliges within a few hours.
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New prenatal testing could diagnose over 3,000 disorders
Scientists successfully sequence the entire genome of a human fetus
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You could -- know everything about your child before he or she is born every thing.
Researchers are reporting a major breakthrough in prenatal testing a way to map the genetic make up of a child not yet born.
With a simple test using -- blood sample from the mom and -- the saliva sample from that it's all in the current methods are more invasive and risky sometimes causing miscarriage.
We're told the new test allows doctors to detect thousands of genetic disorders.
Of course they're ethical questions as it could lead to parents in picking kids for certain traits.
While terminating pregnancy to avoid children with health problems.
Doctor -- Allman joins us now she's a board certified obstetrician gynecologist with New York's center for menopause hormone disorders.
And women's -- This is a great thing they've come up with you just worried maybe some people might worry about how they might use -- I don't.
Well your viewers have nothing to worry about because this is not going to be available for quite a long time -- But what very exciting -- those types it sounds terrific if you could because if you can diagnose something early you can treated early in theory right and what's the most important thing parents want to know that they have a healthy pregnancy.
And and more than that they they want to treat the child right when it comes into the world.
Gentlemen have different needs right you want the most.
Information that you can get as early as he can -- it and it's it's it feels to me like you're already on the defensive for the crowd that's gonna go wow abortion abortion abortion.
I don't think that's really going to be an issue I think most families are going to use this information responsibly.
I think having the information is the most important thing.
There is concern about that of the -- those you know I don't really think in the medical community there's that much concern but two to three pregnancies are two to three.
-- Sorry I'm having a senior moment.
-- -- early for that good at 3% of all of children born have significant medical issues wouldn't it be great -- can identify those sooner it.
-- I think the probably the answer is yes if you know your child has downs what can you do about it.
You can prepare yourself and your family for that pregnancy and that's of an individual decision and that information is available today this is not about this new study -- new technology.
Well I guess this is coming out went ten years from now you say I would say it would be commercially available in ten years -- don't line up for it yet.
I will be lining up I don't plan to have a child and -- and thank you would be sort of difficult for me.
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Sixteen years ago, owner Cathy Roberts started a custom manufacturing business in her basement in mid-coast Maine. Over the years Pieceworks, Inc.'s services have grown to include manufacturing, assembling, packaging, shipping, and research and development. As Cathy explains to prospective clients, "Our company tailors our services to meet your needs."
In essence, Piecworks, Inc. functions as a ghost in the manufacturing chain, working behind the scenes to fill production gaps for companies and businesses, often serving an integral role in helping growing businesses reach the next level.
Since its humble beginnings, Cathy's company has moved into its own factory and now boasts a workforce of up to 10 staff who fulfill a critical role in the manufacturing process. Each new contract requires innovation and creativity, which energizes Cathy and her staff to meet challenges that stretch their problem solving skills and creative abilities.
However, with a depressed economy and a drop in larger manufacturing clients, Cathy felt the business needed new direction so a year ago she began meeting with Betty Gensel, Women's Business Center business counselor. Cathy credits business counseling with helping her redefine the company's market niche by targeting home-based and microbusinesses that are experiencing growth pains and may lack capacity for and expertise in larger scale production.
In addition to business counseling, Cathy regularly attends the Women's Business Center monthly networking meetings held in Augusta and Farmington. Some of the connections she has made there with other women-owned businesses have led to increased visibility and new clientele. One such client is Judy Tollefson, owner of Judy's Colors. After speaking with Cathy, Judy found that by outsourcing packaging and shipping of her knitting kits to Pieceworks Inc., she could return to her passion of working with colors designing knitting patterns, and promoting her e-commerce business.
"In general, I have found that some business owners may be nervous at first about having someone else produce their product so I explain our process and the built-in quality control measures," Cathy explains. "Once we both agree it is the right fit, it becomes clear to the owner that by outsourcing, they have more time and energy to create and research new products and markets and work 'on'; instead of 'in'; their business. That's a win-win because it allows business owners to concentrate more fully on the reason that led them to establish their businesses in the first place."
Thanks in part to business counseling, Cathy is now intentionally diversified and flexible to reflect the needs of new, growing, and internet companies for a shift in manufacturing, while she keeps up contracts with her initial customer base of larger manufacturing concerns.
"Cathy Roberts is a good example of a savvy business woman who knows how to respond intentionally to a market niche," business counselor Betty Gensel points out. "Plus she realizes the importance of constant networking, coupled with the need to offer insourcing, which is the growing trend to keep and return manufacturing to the USA."
Staying Focused on Growing a Wellness Business
Heather Beal Anderson has been a success story from the start: a young hardworking, ambitious Downeast high school graduate who earned a master's degree in physical therapy in 2000 and then moved back to the area to work as a physical therapist for an established practice.
With 10 years experience and a large client list, Heather knew she was ready to take the leap and open her own practice. However, with her usual foresight, she first met with the Downeast Business Counselor Ruth Cash-Smith in November 2009 to begin business planning. Always a quick study, Heather excelled at writing a business plan, mastering the mighty cash flow projection every lender requires, and building relationships with referral sources.
With a small start-up loan, Heather opened Coastal Physical Therapy Services, LLC in Harrington, Maine, on September 8, 2010 in a leased space. As predicted, her legion of dedicated patients sought her out and new patients kept coming—in large part due to Heather's philosophy of providing care that centers around the patient becoming an active participant in his/her own care and wellness.
During the early stages of her business, Heather sought intermittent business counseling, plus cultivated great relationships with her banker and her accountant.
In addition to a running a busy practice during her first year in operation, this mother and wife still carved out time to pursue her doctorate in physical therapy, and write a monthly health column for a regional newspaper. And when an opportunity presented itself, Heather jumped to take over ownership of a gym and fitness center located on the premises where she rents, thereby creating a second auxiliary business.
On the second anniversary of launching her own business, Dr. Heather Beal Anderson boasts a positive cash flow, 2 full-time and 5 part-time employees, and a growth plan to purchase her own building within the next few years.
"I have to say I'm glad I listened to my business counselor and got a business loan," Heather says. "It's nice to have a cushion when times get a bit unnerving. I'm proud that I'm right on track financially and, overall, I will say I've had a pretty cushy two years. I find that by staying focused on growing my business, I achieve my goals a lot faster."
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In 2003 Michael Cote purchased the assets of AM Cannery, a business that was in the process of closing down and through hard work, dedication and tremendous enthusiasm for his business transformed it into not only a successful business, but one that is recognized worldwide and serves to represent the State of Maine. In the nine years Mike has owned Look's Gourmet Food Company he has succeeded in rebranding and revitalizing the business. Through his creative vision he succeeded in rebranding and marketing his company's traditional Maine products while developing new products to meet changing market demands retaining the jobs that would have been lost had the cannery closed and creating new jobs in Down East Maine.
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¶Being mechanical, you ought not walk
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¶Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?
10Carpenter Why, sir, a carpenter.
¶Murellus Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
¶What dost thou with thy best apparel on?
¶You, sir, what trade are you?
¶Murellus But what trade art thou? Answer me directly.
¶Cobbler A trade, sir, that I hope I may use, with a safe ¶conscience, which is indeed sir, a mender of bad soles.
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¶Flavius Thou art a cobbler, art thou?
¶Flavius But wherefore art not in thy shop today?
¶Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?
40What tributaries follow him to Rome,
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¶You blocks! You stones! You worse than senseless things!
¶O you hard hearts! You cruel men of Rome!
¶Knew you not Pompey many a time and oft?
45Have you climbed up to walls and battlements,
¶To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops,
¶Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
¶The livelong day, with patient expectation,
¶To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome?
50And when you saw his chariot but appear,
¶Have you not made an universal shout,
¶That Tiber trembled underneath her banks
¶To hear the replication of your sounds,
¶Made in her concave shores?
55And do you now put on your best attire?
¶And do you now cull out a holiday?
¶And do you now strew flowers in his way
¶That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?
60Run to your houses! Fall upon your knees!
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75You know it is the Feast of Lupercal.
¶Flavius It is no matter. Let no images
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4:08pm Friday 16th August 2013 in News By Tui Benjamin , Reporter
IRATE Elton residents kept awake by noisy parties under a railway bridge have criticised police for failing to clamp down on anti-social behaviour.
A couple, who did not wish to be named, say they are frequently disturbed by loud music and shouting – and have to deal with litter the next day.
Most recently, the couple, of Railway Terrace, were woken at 11.30pm on July 27 by music played from a van and two cars as a group of around 10 adults danced and drank alcohol.
The unnamed woman said she has reported parties of this nature previously.
On the last occasion - despite phone calls to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) at 12.15am, 12.30am and 1.10am – she claims she was told officers were too busy to come out.
The woman said: "We want to highlight how we think the police do not take the public seriously when reporting anti-social behaviour.
"My husband got the impression the people did not care what they were doing to the area and that it was not safe for him to approach them.
"They were all very intoxicated, one was urinating against the bridge wall, and the music they were playing was full of swearing.
"The next day we found litter these hooligans had left."
Other residents on the street commented on the noise – some via social networking sites.
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police confirmed officers received a report loud music was being played from a car under the railway bridge at around 11.45pm on July 27.
He said: "Officers attended the incident around 1.45am on the Sunday and advised the occupants of the vehicle to turn the music down, which they did straight away.
"Details were taken, the vehicles were checked and they were advised if there were any further calls action would be taken against them.
"Greater Manchester Police operates a graded system so incidents where there is a genuine threat to life are given a higher priority – in this instance, no actual crime was committed.
"Local officers will be in contact with the complainant and the area will be included in the anti-social behaviour plan and visited regularly by patrols."
The woman added: "This noise will have caused a disruption to staff working in the nearby Milliken Industrials factory and their lorry drivers who park here at weekends to sleep after driving long distances.
"If the police cannot patrol the area constantly at the weekend the solution is to put a CCTV cameras on the bridge."


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I've never truly understood when people talk about transitioning to their white wine porch sippers as the warm weather approaches in late spring. It's not that I don't like white wine, and certainly it gets hot early here in Southern California, it is just that I've never really had a porch. You see in L.A. where real estate averages over $300 a square foot a small porch can cost a guy $20,000 – so most of your "20-something" years are spent in a rental. In the natural So Cal rental progression one starts with a dirty balcony that overlooks a busy street, and then upgrades to a duplex in which your shared porch is completely overrun by the neighbor lady's cactus collection. Both the lady and the cactuses are probably covered by rent-control so it is inevitable that you will be gone long before the succulents. The setting has the potential to kill the relaxation, thus I have in the past tended to skip the summer sippers.
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Mezzacorona Chardonnay 2008 Vigneti delle Domlomiti – This wine from the Venice region in Italy offers green apple and yeasty bread on the nose. Across the palette there is some fresh citrus and tart apple. It finishes a little short with some subtle acid. The wine is refreshing, if not special, but retailing for between $5 and $10 it fits the bill. On my rating scale this wine gets a 2.5 out of 5.
Cono Sur Bicycle Viognier 2009 – Cono Sur is a large producer out of the Colchagua Valley in Chile. They offer wines at all different levels with the Bicycle brand representing their entry level wines. Cono Sur is known for offering good quality at a value-driven price. The 2009 Viognier is an orange tinged golden yellow in the glass. It offers a pretty nose of peaches and a touch of honeysuckle, with the palette offering lots of citrus, a touch of peach and mineral finish that shows some heat. The acid in this wine is a bit strange as the wine comes across a touch flabby when being drunk, but acidic afterwards (that kind of down the middle of the tongue acidity). The wine is a bit thin, a bit one-dimensional, and yet does offer some flavors that many will find tasty. There are many better examples of viognier available, but certainly on a hot day if this wine is chilled I think people will be refreshed. The wine retails for between $9 and $12, and also receives a score of 2.5 out of 5.
Cascina Castlet Moscato D'Asti 2009 – This wine borders on a dessert wine as it has a high amount of residual sugar, but at my house it disappeared very quickly with a little bit of cheese on a hot afternoon. A pale straw yellow with a bit of sparkle and foam (the term frizzante comes across as pretentious to me, sorry) the wine is only 5.5% alcohol by volume. The nose gives off some apple, citrus, and bread and ultimately reminds me of a lemon or lime Home-Run pie that at $0.25 a pop were still a HUGE treat to me when I was a kid. The mouth gives off a rather sweet and forward bit of pineapple, citrus, and a touch of melon. The sweetness is refreshingly offset by the bubbles and generous dose of acidity. The low alcohol content makes it utterly drinkable, and the website translated from Italian suggests that 'even kids like it.' This wine retails for around $13 and receives a score of 3 out of 5.
The porch trials are now over and I would drink any one of these three wines. The clear winner in terms of being interesting, different, delicious, and refreshing is the Cascina Castlet. There will be some who are averse to the sweet factor, and I understand this as I generally do not drink sweet wines either. But I encourage you to give it a chance, and hey if you don't like it there are apparently some Italian kids who will finish it up for you!! Enjoy!
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29 Apr 2010
The Fine Art of the Manhattan
Guest blog post #2 from author Dustin Cann @dustincann
I'm a big fan of wine, I really am. I love the way it can be so complex, yet so simple. I love the way it smells and the way it can make great food even better. But when I'm on the road, there's absolutely nothing that centers me after a long day better than a well-made Manhattan. See, I spend a great deal of my time bouncing between my home in Memphis and client sites in cities like San Francisco, DC, Detroit, as far away as India. And in the world of a road warrior, you have to accept a certain degree of mediocrity. Yes, my status with airlines, car rental companies, and hotels means I get upgraded more often than not. Yeah, I get to hit restaurants and bars that would be a bit pricey for me to frequent on my own dime. But I spend a lot of time on planes, breathing re-circulated air and drinking Skyy+Coke Zeroes with filthy ice next to some schmuck who thinks I'd rather talk about his sailboat than just close my eyes and rest only to spend my days navigating client politics and compromising the ideal for the realistic. Any more insight and we're running the risk of therapy, and my therapist wouldn't appreciate that. Back to that Manhattan.
A properly made Manhattan is apparently a tough thing to accomplish. It's the balls-out quality of one of these beauties that often makes me appreciate them even more than the finest of wines. In recent years, bartenders all over the world seem to have either forgotten how to make them right, or become timid in a world where vodka is the preferred cocktail base and sweet beats bitter.
The process itself is rather simple. Start with a chilled martini glass. A tumbler or a highball won't encourage the right circulation or allow it to open up right. So you splash a bit of sweet red vermouth in your glass and spin it around a few times. Now dump it out. That's right, dump it out. I'm indulgent like that. I like the RUMOUR of vermouth, not vermouth itself. Next, add a dash of bitters, preferably Angostura. This is the part that a lot of modern bartenders are afraid of. "Bitter is bad, right?" Wrong. Bitter is character. Bitter is tangible. Bitter is the magic. Skimp on this, and you've just got some sweet whiskey. A Manhattan you do not have. So, bitters to about the 1/6th mark. We're doing this by feel, not by measure.
Now for the whiskey. Rye whiskey. Not bourbon, please. I'm not snobby here, so Jim Beam is fine. I'll take finer, but in a Manhattan, I'd prefer Jim Beam to a Kentucky bourbon or *gasp* scotch. New Yorkers had access to rye whiskey when this drink was born, and that's the way I like it. I want it slightly cool, but not cold. Add your whiskey to your glass that's already flirted with vermouth and felt a bit of bitterness. Fill it to just over the ¾ mark. Any more and you're being greedy (and you'll probably commit the sin of spillage), any less and I feel ripped off.
Now add two little ice cubes, one if it's large, and stir. Gently. We're not tumbling this sucker, lads and lasses. We're being soft. You don't want to bruise the spirits, just to mix them and cool it down a bit. Pull out the ice cube(s) with a slotted spoon and add a lemon twist. Prepare to be impressed.
A few common misconceptions (some may call them preferences, but my way is the right way, I assure you):
- Some bartenders make this in a mixing glass and strain into your martini glass. But a gentle mix in the glass is sufficient and clean and requires a level of class and patience not found in the mixing glass. Remember, I'm talking about the perfect Manhattan, the one that lets me clear my head and simply appreciate it. So make it in the glass, and take your time. It's sexier that way.
- Traditional Manhattans are garnished with cherries, not lemon twists. Okay, true. But if you walk into the average bar, a cherry in your Manhattan is all but guaranteed to bring with it a heavy vermouth hand and a light bitters hand. A bartender who gives you a twist knows how to balance properly. Or they're out of cherries, which is a different story altogether.
- There are theories that a lime rim is okay. It is not. Not at all.
Manhattans aren't for everyone. They're not meant to be a fast drink, so take your time to enjoy them. And a lot of barkeeps don't get them right. But there's nothing more opposite of dry dirty air and a bad airline cocktail. And there's no glass of wine that can make me appreciate an artistic bartender or a timeless recipe the same way.
About the Author
Dustin Cann is a traveling business consultant (39 trips in the 52 weeks of 2009) who loves his work, but would rather be a rock star. He's a foodie and an appreciator of both haute cuisine and pub food. When he's home, he plays around in recording studios and relaxes on the lake with a blind pug called Honey. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his partner of eight years and almost surely needs to drink fewer Manhattans.
27 Apr 2010
Are You Bored With Girls Night Cocktails?
Guest blog #1 from Coryn Briggs @bstar2009
Are you bored with your girls' night out cocktails? Has that Cosmopolitan lost its luster? Look no further than your local wine shop for wine selections and food pairing ideas. I've included my current list of top five favorite wines along with ideas for food pairings and girls' night out activities. Wines listed below are not in any kind of order– all are wonderful and need to be enjoyed in the company of good friends.
2008 Erath Vineyard Pinot Gris – How do I love this wine let me count the ways…
First, I love this winery as they consistently produce wonderful quality affordable wines. I also had the great opportunity to visit the tasting room and was so pleased with the level of customer service. The second reason I love this wine is for the bright fruit aromas and flavors—it is a wonderful combination of citrus and tropical fruit. The third reason is that this wine pairs well with many different dishes, including seafood, pasta salads, roasted game birds and mild to medium flavored cheeses. An easy and fun idea to incorporate this wine into the next girls' night out is to have someone host a tapas party because the versatility of this pinot gris makes it great for a mix of ethnic foods and flavors.
Black Star Farms Sirius Raspberry Dessert Wine – Anyone for dessert and a movie? This is a perfect wine for a girls' night party themed around chocolate. This port like wine has flavors of ripe sweet raspberries, combined with the warmth of brandy. Try this wine with anything chocolate. Ideas include: fudge brownies and chocolate fondue. I instantly think of a night in with the girls and one of my favorite movies, Chocolat (staring Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche). Or, try your hand at a flourless chocolate cake, host a contest and serve this wine alongside the decadent dark chocolate creations. In the end you will all be winners!
2007 Babich Unoaked Chardonnay – Not your typical housewife's chardonnay…this unwooded Chardonnay is bursting with flavors of citrus, fresh apple, pineapple and a crisp dry finish. I first discovered this wine because I was on a mission to try unoaked Chardonnays from around the world. The winery I work for produces a lovely unwooded Sur Lie Chardonnay and I was looking to expand my knowledge and palate on this style. This chardonnay is perfect with creamy sauces and cheese. Fondue party ladies? Or perhaps a pasta cooking party complete with homemade noodles, sauce and all…
Cristalino Brut Rosé Cava– Rosé is the new Pinot Grigio, that being said, I tend to associate Rosé wines with summer and in Northern Michigan we will take anything that evokes thoughts of summer. Spring or summer this bubbly Rosé brings versatility to the table anytime of the year. Think flavors of ripe red berries followed by a refreshingly bright finish. Not too sweet or too dry this has become my favorite new bubbly. Move over cosmopolitans…a new pink is in the house. Try it with appetizers, white meats, salmon, and mild cheeses. For girls' night out think pink and do something fun that will benefit breast cancer awareness.
Shady Lane Cellars Sparkling Riesling – The party ideas are endless when it comes to this wine. It is truly a fun wine and a favorite in my house. With aromas of fresh peach and green apple followed by a touch of sweetness and a dry finish this wine is crisp and refreshing. Pair this bubbly with appetizers or add a little apricot nectar for a quick Bellini. Sip on a glass of this bubbly and let the girls' night out begin! Or pour a glass at the spa where you can release your inner diva in the company of good friends.
Celebrate the joys of friendship, take quality time with your friends, relax and unwind. Whether you want to stay in or go out, the wines and ideas presented give you a good start for your next night with the girls. So go ahead, wine a little and feel good about it!
About the Author
Coryn Briggs moved to Traverse City 6 years ago and quickly immersed herself into the Michigan wine industry. She is currently the Winery Promotions Coordinator for Black Star Farms. In this role she manage the many pieces of the marketing mix including, off-site events, website content, advertising, social media, as well as graphic design. She enjoy local food, wine and the downtown Traverse City area where shes live with her husband and two young daughters.
Black Star Farms is a unique agricultural entity that features two winery production facilities, their adjacent tasting rooms, a distillery, Inn, and equestrian facility. The winery just celebrated its 10th year anniversary and is proud to represent the viticultural diversity of the Northwest Michigan region, and its proximity to the 45th parallel.
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Live in the Present and Build a Big Future
Learning to play an instrument always occurs right now in the present moment.
You're working on exactly this movement that your fingers need to make to create the sound you're after.
The sound rings out NOW.
Acoustic music lives and breathes the present moment.
Since the present moment is all that exists, anything that helps you connect more fully to the present will help you grow as a human being. To the degree that we dodge and run from the present, we're distancing ourself from who and what we are—living, breathing beings in the present moment.
With adulthood comes, for most of the adults I know, a heaviness connected to too much extra time lying around. Adults carry a heavy bag of past around with them, and many adults delight in wielding the past like a weapon within their own hearts and minds.
At the same time, though, I've noticed that most people I meet are also light in future. The get-rich-quick, buy-now-pay-later mentality dominates among the folks I meet out there in the world outside my practice space. Funny things are going on with this whole time thing here in the 21st century—there's never enough of it, it's running out, it's accelerating, it almost feels like it's careening out of control.
Thankfully, since music is entirely grounded in and related to Time, playing music provides us with the potential for developing a much more nuanced and healthy relationship to Time. You could say that when we play music, we're really playing Time.
Certainly, we're playing with Time.
Time bends, it slows down and speeds up, we retard it and accelerate it, and we can go from playing a plodding slow piece to a rip-roaring roller coaster ride of a piece one right after the other.
Music itself is all about time, and learning to play music is in huge part learning how to feel, perceive and relate to time as a two-way phenomenon. It gives to us, and we give back to it.
There's another way time comes into play for the practicing musician, however, and this other way is what I'm going to discuss here.
Enjoy the Ride
The process of learning to play music occurs over a long stretch of time. I know no musician who just picked up an instrument and automatically was able to play it at genius levels without ever working at it.
Yes, there are talented maestros who seem to command supernatural abilities on any instrument they pick up, but I guarantee you they came into their genius capabilities through a path coated in diligent practice.
In order to succeed at learning to play an instrument, you're going to need to learn how to relate to the long-term. Since the get-rich-quick i-want-it-now mentality seems to dominate these days, the challenges you'll experience on your musical path will differ in magnitude and intensity in direct relation to how comfortable you are relaxing into the long-term.
Here's a good question to gauge where you're at with the long-term: when I use the term "long-term," what span of time do you imagine? Right there, you've got an insight into how you're relating to time in your life.
Maybe long-term means six months to you. Maybe it's six years.
Within the context of learning to play an instrument well, I'd say five years is the shortest possible long-term that I'd encourage you to adopt within your mind as you go about your daily practice. Five years from now, you will most assuredly be more accomplished on your instrument if you're doing the right things in a patient, diligent manner now.
The thing is, this process of going from point A today to point B five years from now creates miracles if you just do your thing each day and continuously apply solid fundamental principles.
If you can learn how to relate to the process of growth within a developmental artform across a long-term time perspective, you will reap results that will fundamentally transform your character and your life experience.
I encourage you to root down deep in the present each day as you work on your technique and expression and all that other good musical stuff, but I also encourage you to hang on to the long-term vision of why you're going to all the trouble that solid practice entails.
Guitar students who quit are legion while students who hang on for the long-term are more precious than the rarest gems.
I'm big on obliterating the myth that children can learn music easily while adults have a hard time learning to play music. If you give yourself a long-term time perspective and just plug away at your instrument under the guidance of some good teaching, I guarantee you that no matter who you are, no matter how old you are, you will make amazing progress from wherever you start to wherever you get to across that long-term timeline.
A Conscious Relationship With Time
Since time is such a huge part of playing music, we might as well enter into a conscious relationship with it in as many ways as we possibly can.
Persistence is the name of the game, no matter what other game you think you're playing.
If you're engaged in anything worthwhile, you will have to apply persistence continuously in order to prevail.
Once you have persistence locked in, though, you become unstoppable.
If you haven't yet consciously, almost ceremoniously adopted persistence as one of your primary values on your journey through life, try it out and notice what happens. There is a big difference between unconsciously persisting and consciously aligning yourself with this value we call persistence.
Persistence marries action and time.
Persistence asserts that you will follow through on a decision across as long a span of time as is necessary to carry you to your envisioned destination. Time is built in, action is built in, and the combination of a span of time and sustained continuous action results in the achievement of your goal.
We're talking about learning to play an instrument here in this blog, though of course these lessons apply to any path whether it's learning to program computers or training in a martial art.
If you don't adopt a long-term perspective within your musical practice, then the challenges that come have much more power to take you down. As much as playing music is a physical process involving your body, the real work is mental. This insight carries across every activity humans engage in—the real work is mental.
The real work is in how you use your mind, or how your mind uses you.
Without persistence and a long-term time perspective, the odds of you failing to achieve whatever level of ability you're going after on your instrument are extremely high.
With persistence and a long-term time perspective, the odds of you achieving what you're after are practically 100%.
If something outside of you and seemingly beyond your control steps in and halts your progress whether it's an accident or a serious illness or something else, I don't consider that failure. If you're committed to your goal, almost nothing can stand in your way.
Persistence is the big key as far as this long-term perspective to development goes, but it's not the only key that will help you carry forward through the ups and downs of the path.
Here's the next one, which I personally find extremely challenging:
Patience is so huge.
If you're already committed to persistence, you'll get to your goal one way or another.
Patience has everything to do with your experience of getting there.
Are you going to be frustrated and agitated every step of the way? Are you going to wish you were THERE already instead of HERE? Are you going to be angry and resentful and jealous toward those who have already created your desired outcome in their lives? Or, are you going to remain grateful for the journey you're on no matter where it takes you? Are you going to recognize that you'll never again be where you are right now and notice how beautiful the process of going from point A to point B is?
Patience takes the long-term perspective and grounds it in kindness. This kindness is internal—how you treat yourself as you work toward your goal.
The frustration in music looks similar no matter where you're at in your relationship to your instrument—you want to be able to do something that you can't yet do. You want to make music that you can't yet make. You want to play for groups that you can't yet play for. You want to achieve what you haven't yet achieved.
Frustration can serve you by giving you extra energy, but it's not a conscious way to live and grow. Would you consciously choose to feel frustrated all the time? I suspect not—you'd probably, if you were choosing consciously, decide to embrace patience and enjoy each step of your journey no matter what.
It's that simple, and boy, pulling off that simplicity in real-time is incredibly hard. The thing with patience, just like persistence, is you have to choose it again and again in each new moment.
You get some momentum from your previous decisions to embrace and remain patient and persistent, but you have to choose anew in each moment.
That deciding never goes away, because the moment is always fresh.
It can feel a lot like going to the gym when you're practicing hard and having to choose again and again and again to persist with patience even just within a single practice session.
One hour of practicing can bring you face to face with your need to remain true to your commitment to these principles over and over again.
Be prepared for that—if you can recognize and accept the need for constant renewal of your commitment, it'll help you glow all the brighter with your deep patience.
Our long stretches of steady practice definitely make us better, and getting better feels incredible.
Getting better at playing music is fantastic, but getting better at being a great human being is the real purpose behind all this musical development.
When you choose patience and persistence over and over again—when you have a context in which you're constantly being brought into contact with the need to make that commitment again and again thanks to the challenges inherent in your practice—you continually grow and evolve.
Eventually, when you get your patience and persistence rooted so down deep within you that you almost can't tell where they end and you begin, that's when you've got it. You become nearly invulnerable to the games your mind and the path itself will try to play with you to get you to quit or at least to slow your progress.
Why do we get in our own way? That's a question for a whole series of articles, but the fact is that we do, and the sooner we recognize that it's happening and how it's happening, the sooner we can get on with persisting patiently.
How To Hold Your Vision
One more piece of the puzzle to relating to the long-term involves how you hold your vision of where you're going.
First off, you need a vision. A picture of what it will feel like and look like and smell like and sound like and taste like when you reach your ideal goal.
The picture you hold will magnetize you and help pull you forward across the long stretch of time that we've been talking about here.
Any move from one point to another point involves change. If you're aiming for something worthy, then the move across space and time from where you are to where you envision will involve growth. That's almost the definition of a worthy goal: sustained action targeting a result that helps you grow into a better human being.
Once you have your vision, you need to hang on to it no matter what. Your vision will help you, but persistence and patience will help you hold it in front of you come what may.
So, not only do you need to relax into the long-term if you really want to get somewhere interesting on your instrument, but you need to create the most vivid and exciting vision you can of where you want to get to. Otherwise, how will you know when you get there? It's good to have a clear vision of all the aspects of what you're going after so you can recognize it and appreciate what you've done in achieving it.
Dwell In the Now and Reach for the Long-Term
No matter how you already relate to the long-term, I encourage you to extend your sense of the long-term. Live into a longer-term dream. Craft your life across decades. Plan and plot and then get busy with the joyful effort of your daily work.
Which returns us to the present. All this magic that we're going to work in our lives and in our relationship to music will occur right now.
Learning to dwell in the moment with a powerful vision of the future is an art.
Thankfully, the daily work of learning to play beautiful music can give you a relatively simple context in which to practice not just the music part, but also the important work of balancing your attention in the present with your intention for the future.
Attend to the present while intending the future. Try to hold both together—explore the paradox that's hidden there.
Persist patiently with your vision Now.


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