I slipped in my reporting for last two weeks but a great side effect of writing these weekly notes was that I had that nagging feeling at the back of my head reminding me of my slippage.
There was a tiny lesson that my piano instructor told me about that fits here.
He said, when we usually get stuck on a part of a melody, we try to start from the beginning of the tune to resume practice again and again. Instead of that, consider the sheet music like a map. When you get stuck in on a junction, just practice going around that junction and move forward. Don’t go back to the beginning of the map and restart from the beginning.
It didn’t feel like much of an advice when I heard it, but when I put it to use, it was gold! So here I am, starting from where I left my weekly notes.
This week in the studio
On Saturday, I logged in to Instagram in the morning to see Harshita’s pictures of the Anomalie Tattoos she had ordered. I already love her current permanent floral tattoos on her arms and the pansies were fitting in so beautifully. When friends find the time to click aesthetic images for your baby brand, I file it under ‘love language’.
2. On Saturday, my godchild returned from her drawing class with a gorgeous surrealistic drawing where she imaged her family as animals and sketched the composition over 12 days. Both - the drawing and her creativity inspired me to pick up my sketch pencils after a week to draw out a composition. Spent a large part of Saturday with Pooja and Deepika and loved hanging out with them after months.
3. I devoured Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors on Saturday all through Sunday. It was one of those books for which I woke up at 4 AM just to relish the last 50 pages in absolute silence of the breaking dawn.
4. After a hiatus of perhaps a decade, on Sunday, I booked a movie ticket just for myself to watch Inside Out -2. I am deeply interested in movies and it is one of the pleasures for me that I delight in partaking solo. I used to constantly go for movies alone while in college and somehow, that practice kept slipping away from me. Felt real good because the movie was also great and I was able to connect to a past version of myself that I believed I had lost.
5. In the last update, I was able to play a rhyme on the piano after reading to sheet music. It is the old, trusty Old MacDonald and I was giddy enough to record it and spam friends and family with it.
Rest of the week has been work mostly and I might have some interesting updates in the coming week regarding that.