On Being a Musician the Spirit Plays

“LOOSE BUT SPIRITED” HAS BEEN MY MOTTO, for decades, as an improvisational musician. It affirms the value of letting the spirit play — not because precision is a bad thing, but because getting music “tight” too often pushes out the spirit entirely. In improvisational music, the magic happens when the spirit plays the musicians. To …

Living the Questions

Lurking in the background, behind our everyday concerns, are those “big questions” about the meaning of it all. Who am I? Who are you? Where do we live? What lies ahead? What are we supposed to be doing? Answers to these deeply human questions are offered by our wisdom traditions, by our spiritual giants, and …