📸 Celebrating my bestie at her 50th in Johannesburg
Hello Podfriend!
Happy New Month! Happy Black History Month! How have you been? Hopefully you’ve remained true to your goals, your new routines and made it to the end of Dry Jan safely.
My January was EPIC, as my kids would say. My bestie Maria McCloy turned 50 and I got to celebrate with her in Johannesburg. It was a night for re-living our youth and a good interlude that gave me a chance to reflect on the massive leap of faith that our family took by leaving the United States at the end of 2025.
This newsletter is coming to you from Cremona, Italy’s historical city where violin-making is still a living art. Classical music somebodies know it as the city of luthier, Antonio Stradivari, where the rare violins and other classical string instruments named for the master craftsman come from. I have it on good authority that a good liutaio (luthier/maker of bowed or plucked instruments) in Cremona only needs to make three or four instruments per year. There are people who will pay anything from EUR 37,000 to half a million or even more for a well-crafted string instrument! More updates on life in Cremona in future logs.
For now, here’s what’s coming up:
-Studio Update
-On my mind this month
-Giving me Joy and Pause
Let’s get on with it, shall we?
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