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[Part of this article was originally published in February 2009.]

I’m not sure why my thoughts strayed to piano teaching the other morning when I was praying. (Why do my thoughts ever stray at that time? A perennial question.  Sigh.)  I recalled my conversation with Angela about the “hard parts” needing more practice than the “easy parts.”

“Think about it, honey,” I said.

“If some measures are really easy for you, and some give you lots of trouble, how does it help to just start at the beginning and play the piece straight through?  You’d always be playing the easy parts just as much as you do the hard ones.”

O filmare din partea jurnalistului britanic Dylan Winter, in voiajul sau cu barca in jurul insulei britanice in 2010.

This astonishing sequence was filmed by wild life cameraman and travel journalist Dylan Winter who is currently sailing around the UK in an 18 foot boat (2010). You can follow his journey and see more of his work at http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk. Music: Pachebel by the London Symphony Orchestra.

And another video, also by Dylan Winter http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk.

Otmoor, Near Oxford England

 

From an email I recently received

Many of you are making probable thinking about the March for Life commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade and yet in the midst of that, as I notified you last week, there have been some serious developments regarding the so called “Reproductive Health Act.” it is important from now on that we refer to this as the “Unlimited Abortion Act”, because

It’s no surprise that the Obama administration has approved the sale of the abortifacient drug Plan-B in vending machines on college campuses.

After all, they are dispensing it like Band-Aids at New York City public schools.