The Artist's Task

Dear Readers,I have decided to drop back to posting this blog every other week. I enjoy writing it and especially enjoy hearing from my readers, but keeping this amount of writing up weekly inevitably takes a chunk of my work time. When I made this announcement once before, I heard from one reader who said, “Your weekly blog is what keeps me writing!” I so appreciated knowing that these small pieces were making a difference to someone out there in the isolation in which we all work that after a month of posting bi-weekly, I tumbled right back into the every-week routine.Now, though, I’m also posting a separate blog for teachers, “Educator’s Endnotes,” and I’m finding that talking to my readers too easily takes precedence over creating the work that brings us together to start with. So once more I will be posting bi-weekly, and on the weeks when I don’t write a blog, such as this one, I will offer instead a quote that I find intriguing. I hope you will find it intriguing, too.In a world where we all have too much pulling at us all the time, especially too much that demands to be read, thank you for your loyalty.MDB"Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out what musicyou can still make with what you have left."--Itzhak Perlman(after having finished playing a concert with a broken string)