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Should Musicians Quit Talking and Let the Music Unite?

July 26, 2021 dcvance99

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

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

“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

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 4 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

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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