This is my friend Judy, who is teaching me recorder. I have so much performance anxiety I cant play in front of her. She pretends to tidy stuff up and I pretend to play. She asked me last lesson to record my practice onto a machine and play it back to her so she can hear how I am progressing. Now that I have the tongeuing down pat, I just have to learn to blow more gently. I laughed at her suggestions to blow softly because I been blowing so hard, I find it hard to keep the breath coming. Ive developed my diaphragm so much from blowing hard that when I talk things like apple skin or rice that might have been on my teeth come out like a speeding rocket sometimes.
Judy has a an Order of Australian Merit for music education and this picture of her that I took today will be going into the music education magazine. Shes 65 and has more energy than a 2 year old boy. The first time I met her energy was like running into a brick wall and very confronting for me. I love her so much because she only does what she has been put on this earth to do.
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