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How To Raise a #Reader in an Age of #Digital #Distraction - When we #read, we’re essentially performing a complex #neural symphony. Our #brains must coordinate #visual processing, #language comprehension, #memory systems, and #abstract thinking—all in milliseconds. This isn’t something that happens automatically. It’s built through #practice, #repetition, and what Wolf calls “deep reading circuits.” https://lithub.com/how-to-raise-a-reader-in-an-age-of-digital-distraction/ Please keep reading yourself, and to others of all ages. Unbreakable bond
Literary Hub · How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital DistractionPeople make certain assumptions about you when you’re the CEO of a children’s book company. Some assume I must have spent my childhood summers in a hammock reading Rebecca of Sunnybrook…
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“Tasks such as #writing well, #thinking well, and living well are hard, particularly for fallen and fallible creatures. But we gain the competence to meet these challenges responsibly only by careful, effortful #practice. No technological shortcut, no forbidden fruit, will alter this creatural #reality.”
One of the reasons I enjoy trying to master a musical instrument, is the time you (I) must commit, totally focused on that task. No distractions, no wondering about what might have been, or worrying about what is. Improve your tone and technique, work to get the instrument and your body in sync. There generally aren't immediate rewards. You have to be persistent and patient over a long time.
I imagine that's why musicians also generally excel in all other fields.
Music and practice. 
1. Now that the restrung guitar is holding pitch, going back to daily practice. Even though it's nylon strings, my fingertips are already sore. Time to rebuild those callouses!
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How much do you practice/study (e.g. scales, arpeggios, chord changes, playing along with tunes, etc.)?
In my happy place aka the practise room.
I would NOT have said that back in my twenties! :D
Spent a few minutes woodshedding some tricky sax parts tonight before bed.
Even though it involved a few loud expletives, it still made me think: every night should end like this.
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"The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."
James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: https://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm
richgibson.com"A Talk to Teachers" James Baldwin, 1963
Another practice piece inspired by Lena Moz using DS watercolor sticks and colored pencils.
#watercolor #watercolour #aquarell #aquarelle #aquarello #aquarela #acuarela #landscape #painting #art #practice #sketchbook #danielsmithwatercolorsticks
#watercolor #watercolour #aquarell #aquarelle #aquarello #aquarela #acuarela #landscape #painting #art #practice #sketchbook #danielsmithwatercolorsticks
Tonight I sent an arpeggio to an oscillator and threw that through some effects while I twiddled some knobs. It's not much, just exploring a single simple voice. But it was good comfort while I work on tech.
Painting practice, a value study of Edward Hopper #practice #DigitalArt
Incredibly out of practice, but had a big desire to get my Les Paul out this morning and practice a bit.
Hands still know *mostly* where to go, and American Idiot, About a Girl, and Korobeiniki are still fun to play.
I see a lot of chat about the “right” #practice routine for #guitar, and I see people posting (to my mind) insane 2-3 hour technique sessions.
For me, if I’m actually pushing myself to improve technique then I find I’m tired after about an hour, sometimes less. Probably not finger/hand tired but brain tired. That hour will consist of 5-10 minute micro sessions, with short breaks.
After that I’ll need a longer break, and if I do anything else it’ll be quite different: improvisation, learning something about Logic, or just listening.
Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m now in my 40s, but I do wonder if these massive practice routines are effective.
#Dōgen Zenji (1200–1253) revolutionized #Japanese #Zen by emphasizing #shikantaza ("just sitting") and the inseparability of #practice and #enlightenment. His #philosophical depth, especially in works like #Shōbōgenzō, shaped #SōtōZen and continues to influence global Buddhist thought. Here is a brief overview of his life and teachings:
https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2025/2025-07-27-dogen_zenji/
Berlin Urban Sketchers sketch walk with Santi Sallés and Swasky.
We started at #Bethanien and finally sketched at #Marthakirche. The final #throwdown happened at a beer garden. It was a brilliant finale to an amazing weekend with lots of sunshine and a creative + happy crowd
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#berlinusk #urbansketching #sketchbook #marthagemeinde #sketckbookaccident #santisalles #swasky #practice #Watercolor #sketchwalk
There were 2 sketchbooks accidents in the beer garden. One with water - one with coffee with milk. My selfbound sketchbook was participants in the last accident, my sketch is covered with milky textured stains. And several pages are soaked with beige blobs.
But, you know what… I take it as a reminder to a perfect summer weekend.
We started at #Bethanien and finally sketched at #Marthakirche. The final #throwdown happened at a beer garden. It was a brilliant finale to an amazing weekend with lots of sunshine and a creative + happy crowd
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#berlinusk #urbansketching #sketchbook #marthagemeinde #sketckbookaccident #santisalles #swasky #practice #Watercolor #sketchwalk
There were 2 sketchbooks accidents in the beer garden. One with water - one with coffee with milk. My selfbound sketchbook was participants in the last accident, my sketch is covered with milky textured stains. And several pages are soaked with beige blobs.
But, you know what… I take it as a reminder to a perfect summer weekend.