studio non troppo : music : facilitation

Can great courage be built from little? As a small instance of courage—a “little courage”—I imagine inserting just a thin sliver of time between a stimulus and what comes next. This allows what was an immediate, habitual reaction to be replaced by a response, now mediated by the narrow wedge of a moment’s pause. Many times, our […]

It can be debilitating to feel the absence of choice: “I have no choice.” But while it is frequently true that the options we would prefer to have available are not present for us, this is not the same as having no choice; the truth, potentially much less harsh, is simply that we do not have every […]