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Should Musicians Quit Talking and Let the Music Unite?

July 26, 2021 dcvance99 Leave a comment

The sun was low in the sky but still quite warm on an early summer evening. We found a spot…

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Posted in: Media, Memoir & Memories, Personal musings Filed under: concerts, discourse, Music, musicians

Must the Tree Grow as the Twig is Bent?

June 19, 2021 dcvance99 2 Comments

Storytelling groups are springing up all over the city. One of them recently called for stories about the best and…

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Posted in: Memoir & Memories, Personal musings, Writing Filed under: Family, neighbors

Do We All Actually Just Name Ourselves?

June 5, 2021 dcvance99 Leave a comment

In the 1946 film, “A Matter of Life and Death,” two newly dead WWII British pilots are on a tour…

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Posted in: Memoir & Memories, Personal musings Filed under: memoir, names

How Should We Handle Casual Remarks About Ourselves?

May 17, 2021 dcvance99 4 Comments

There’s a reason I don’t look forward to the end of mask-wearing. It’s not that I’ll miss my Van Gogh…

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Posted in: Memoir & Memories, Personal musings Filed under: Communication, memoir, small talk

How Do You Know What You Think You Know?

April 23, 2021 dcvance99 Leave a comment

“Minari” actress Youn Yuh-jung stunned me by saying in a radio interview, “Self-sacrifice is human nature.”  What a refreshing improvement…

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Posted in: Memoir & Memories, Personal musings Filed under: cultural knowledge, tradition

Would You Mind Smelling Like a Poor Loser?

April 12, 2021 dcvance99 Leave a comment

I used to compare my family with characters in Edgar Allan Poe’s house of Usher who suffered from an acuteness…

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Posted in: Memoir & Memories, Personal musings Filed under: feelings, memories, musings

Do You Think the Arts Affect Us Because of Vibrations?

April 3, 2021 dcvance99 8 Comments

Popular opinion says we’re simply a collection of stimulus-response and that our response to art is caused by effects of…

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Posted in: Media, Memoir & Memories, Personal musings, Writing Filed under: arts, Music

Why Is It So Hard To Talk About the Most Important Things?

March 27, 2021 dcvance99 2 Comments

Mom would complain if Dad told his army stories, saying he was glorifying war. But that was like saying “Catch-22” glorified war.

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Posted in: Memoir & Memories, Personal musings Filed under: Spirituality

How Do We Learn to Be Good Parents?

March 6, 2021 dcvance99 2 Comments

As a child, I was fascinated and horrified by a neighbor lady with freckles covering her face and limbs. As…

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Posted in: Memoir & Memories Filed under: Family, parenting

Do You See Yourself as a Person First?

February 27, 2021 dcvance99 Leave a comment

Femaleness is an unmistakable theme in my novel “Sylvie Denied.” I was born female in a female body, never questioned…

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Posted in: Memoir & Memories, Personal musings, Social Justice Filed under: Family, gender roles

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