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Dear friends,<\/p>\n

It’s been many years since I explored sound<\/a> here on my blog. And many years since my very first public piano recording<\/a>. With your enthusiasm and praise I shrunk away, too timid to try again in case the next piece wouldn’t be as well admired. Life moved on but the music stayed in my heart.<\/p>\n

This year, in working to open my heart ever more, I’ve decided to play again. For me. And to share it with you. Freely. Each month in 2014, I will upload a new piano composition: My heart’s voice. Each piece will be recorded in my own home on an old wooden semi grand borrowed from a friend, complete with ambient sound from my home & neighborhood. With each piece I am striving to let go: Let go of perfection; let go of expectation; let go of self.<\/p>\n

There will be mistakes. I will not edit the compositions. These will not be professional recordings.<\/p>\n

I offer each composition to you freely – you can download them<\/a> and add them to your music collection, to take with you as you journey in your creative life. I recommend listening to them with your headphones so you can hear the birds singing in the background, and the pedal creaking, the keys clicking.<\/p>\n

At the end of the year, in its roughness, will be an album. Here is my first piece, titled Of Time & Light<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n