Year Four, Day 6: Switching Brains

Here I go! On my way to the Multnomah Arts Center to play the organ in the Magnificat by J.S. Bach.

It is a sold out concert!

I am going to be a student today. A student of myself. And my teacher self is telling my student self that this performance is not a test or a competition. It has been a learning process. And I am look forward to the performance experience. Of being in the moment, surrounded by sounds of deliciousness.

It will be my supper tonight. Who needs food when you can injest music?

Sure, there are a few butterflies. There always have been. But what used to been huge Monarch butterflies are now just little Gossamer-winged butterflies. Apparently they can be quite small.

https://www.britannica.com/animal/gossamer-winged-butterfly

Besides, I like their name.

"Gossamer": "Used to refer to something very light, thin, and insubstantial or delicate"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gossamer

I tell my students that when we are ready to perform a piece, we shift from left brain to right brain. What was previously analytical, repetitious and methodical now becomes creative.

So I am officially engaging the clutch and switching brains right now, on this here #9 bus, heading west on SE Powell.

I'll post an update tonight or tomorrow morning.

But for now, my teacher self is telling my student self to break a leg!

Ttyl...

P.S. Concert attire is black skirt or slacks, white top.

Here I am hooping in full concert attire! Day 323

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