A discipline will confer upon us the capacity to keep going...
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A discipline will confer upon us the capacity to keep going and we will find that the very difficulties and challenges that come to us are opportunities to refine, develop, and substantiate our practice.
So, we keep going. But, the only payment, ultimately, that we receive is for music itself. The rest of it may never come, or it might, but it’s not really relevant because we know that we are being true, in this life, to what it is required of us.
So, we refine our practice and we keep going.
[Edited excerpt from Englishmen Abroad at City Winery in New York, September 23rd. 2022]
I press on, no doubt. My hat is off to Robert for his program in the 2022 talking tour. I attended in Washington, DC and appreciate so much his survival of “Bus Dismal” and bringing us his perspective.
80 is a mighty good start!