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Your Voice is A Beautiful Voice: On Balancing Contentment and Improvement
by Emily Herzlin
May 7, 2013
My non-practicing Jewish grandparents used to come to synagogue on Friday nights just to hear me sing in the youth choir. “You were the littlest one up there, but you had the biggest voice,” my grandma tells me. That might be true, or it might be...
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How to Be a Behavioral Buddha
by Jeffrey Rubin
April 7, 2013
Ordinarily when we can't handle powerful feelings such as pain or fear we avoid them because they overwhelm us or make us feel bad. This creates a self-reinforcing cycle of anxiety and avoidance, guilt and shame. What I call Behavioral Buddhism is...
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Busking for Patience
by Emily Herzlin
March 19, 2013
  He entered the subway car at 86th street, holding a clipboard with some papers. He announced to the car that he had come from California to be a Minister of Music in New York City and began singing a refrain of improvised Hallelujahs, eyes...
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Mindfulness of Music: An Active Listening Practice
by Caroline Contillo
February 1, 2013
How could we use music to become more awake rather than to distract us from our surroundings?
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Punk's not Dead, It's just Getting Older
by Kipp Efinger
November 26, 2012
Aging and rock n' roll don't go well together. When I listen to the music I love, especially old punk songs that nobody around me cares about anymore, I feel hopelessly doomed to a world where I keep getting older and the punk kids stay the same age...
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I Hear Music- by Laura Bilodeau
by Joren
September 27, 2012
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Respect, Jay-Z and the death of conversation
by monica c
April 28, 2012
went to post a comment on Lodro Rinzler's  Jay-Z post, but the conversation is closed (??). 
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the park
by Joren
October 13, 2011
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High School Concert Band Covers Rage Against the Machine
by Patrick Groneman
March 8, 2011
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Daily Art #11 - Seth Price Week #2 - "Die Leguane," 2001
by Matt Jones
January 17, 2011
 
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Andrew Bird
by monica c
December 30, 2010
  "Today, like every other day, we wake up  empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.   Let the beauty we love be what we do.  there are...
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Saturday Morning Cartoon #3: A Hungry Ghost
by Matt Jones
October 9, 2010
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