creative practice: bread revisited

Baking bread can be a lot like making music, and like writing. There's the choosing of ingredients, the mixing, the waiting, the surprise, the anticipation. The taste, when first it's new, and the challenge of knowing that it will never be exactly the same way again.
Creative practice, indeed.

from Jay Ungar and Molly Nason, a bit of music to go along: Harvest Home

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Creative practice: winter light, and music

Thinking about the light, the work, and the music, of winter. A time for celebration and reflection, for community and silence, for hope and joy at the year's darkest time.

Amy Grant has a song, Breath of Heaven, in which she sees the questioning and the trust of that first Christmas winter from Mary's point of view

Carrie Newcomer has an album coming out in February called The Geography of Light. More about that here

Matt and Shannon Heaton have a holiday album which also works with these ideas. It’s called Fine Winter’s Night, and you may learn more about it here

Cathie Ryan has an album called The Farthest Wave, which speaks of grief, healing and, hope, and journeys from dark to light. Click on the title for review and comment on this album.


Narada’s Best of Celtic Christmas, Kathy Mattea’s Joy for Christmas Day, and several other holiday albums, offer music for the for the light and dark of winter. Learn more at this link.

and if you'd like to consider music for Winter, Solstice, and Holidays of all sorts follow that link for a story at Wandering Educators.

A cup of Barry's Tea and bit of your own music would be good, too.

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Music and baking bread

I bake my own bread and --- these days anyway -- do not follow any recipes. There are a couple of familiar standbys I often make and then there are the variations and experiments. First loaf I ever made was hard as a rock, but, that was years ago and I’ve learned from the results, from trying others’ breads, and just from the making of it.

What does all that have to do with music? You decide.

Tassajara Bread Book

photo: winter's eve in Louth

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