Staring 'into the eyes of the Great Magician' Well hello 2010! A new year, a new blog. Where to start? As I mean to go on I suppose... with an unedited, unstructured, perhaps unintelligible stream of consciousness, because the primary purpose of...
Ignorance = Blogging Bliss? I often think that if I had better knowledge of psychology, sociology, history etc. I'd have been better qualified to address the issues I've raised in the Rabbit so far. But yesterday, after writing my...
Hit Pause on 'Perfection' A music-specific continuation from Jan 26 ('The Problems of an Ideal Rabbit'): For me and many others, one of the main and eternal aspirations of a musician is to break down the physical and mental...
The Joy of Laundry Yesterday I sat in a laundromat for a good chunk of the afternoon. Understandably, I expected it to be a fairly brain-numbing and/or depressing experience. I was pleasantly surprised, however, when I started...
The Silent Musician This afternoon I sat in an orchestra rehearsal in my normal place but, because of injury, without my cello. Even though the rehearsal did, of course, have my undivided attention, I started thinking about...
The Rabbit is suffering from an array of ailments ranging from Stuck-in-Limbo (which can’t be good for the metaphorical back, I’m sure, as well as my literal mental health) and another case of ‘Rabbit in the Headlight’ Syndrome. When life stops massively sidestepping my version of ‘normality’ I can’t wait for the rabbiting to resume.