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Music, art, and nature as sacred guides-inviting intuition, healing, and deep inner listening.
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Control is a Fickle Beast (opens the original)
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We spend so much of our lives trying to control outcomes, protect ourselves from uncertainty, and make life behave according to our plans. But what if control is only an illusion?In this episode of Mystic Artistry, I reflect on the tension between fear and faith, drawing from my own experiences, recovery principles, and the wisdom of Kabbalah. Together we’ll explore why surrender isn’t giving up—it’s making room for something wiser than our own expectations.If you’ve ever found yourself exhauste
After the Applause (opens the original)
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I Listen Before I Finish (opens the original)
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There are people who listen waiting for their turn to speak. And there are people who listen to understand.In this episode of Mystic Artistry, I reflect on the quieter art of listening-not only to others, but to ourselves, to silence, to emotion, to music, to animals, to what exists underneath words.What changes when we stop preparing our response and stay present a little longer?As a teacher, artist, musician, and someone who has spent much of life observing what goes unsaid, I’ve come to belie
The Things That Linger (opens the original)
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Some things leave us. Some things never really do. In this episode of Mystic Artistry, I reflect on the invisible ways life remains with us, through scent, music, places, objects, memories, gestures, and the emotional atmosphere people leave behind.Not all lingering is painful. Sometimes what remains becomes part of our language, our creativity, our tenderness, our way of recognizing one another.I explore the traces that stay long after moments have passed and the quiet question of what it means
Variation On A Theme (opens the original)
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What if things we carry are not entirely our own?In this episode of Mystic Artistry, I reflect on the themes that repeat themselves across generations; creativity, fear, expression, beauty, silence, resilience, and the ways they show up in our lives almost like variations in music.I share memories of growing up surrounded by music and artistry, including one of my earliest experiences at the piano with my father, and I explore the quieter inheritances too: body image, criticism, worry, expectati
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