All those babies, but your piano will always stay your baby ... no wonder the guitar and flute are popular with nomadic lifestyles - what a picture in my mind of you and your piano rolling down the road!

I started the piano quite young, maybe around 6. Nothing fancy, but did win the Toronto Conservatory's Grade 1 piano Silver Medal for east of Ontario back in Grade 4. It became clear that it wasn't what was best for me to focus on in this life. A lot of disruption, then finally got back to it around 2004, and went further than I had in the past, even getting into some of the Gurdjieff/deHartman music, but then became too sick to play much at all.

I absolutely agree with you about music classes in school - it seems to have rapidly disappeared, along with explicit phonics, within a few years of my completing a given year. I know this because my younger sister did not receive the same phonics I did in grade school.

Yes - the dopamine. Scott Adams talked about it in one of his blogs when describing why bullies enjoy bullying.

The pic you re-sized for me uploaded fine! Thank you! Could you please share your secret formula so that I can do the other 2 and post the 3 together?

Watch the space below ...

Anna