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        <div class="message">I have never been so happy to see the end of a year. &nbsp; 
 I know, I know, relish the time you have, but... honestly, I didn't have TIME to relish the time I had in 2011. &nbsp;The year of… <span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="https://alyssawright.com/ramblings/blog/3262894/happy-new-year--3">Read more</a></span></div>
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        <div class="message">OK, I'm not a painter -- how about the blank page? &nbsp;Very intimidating, the blank page. &nbsp;I don't usually write very well from the blank page. &nbsp;There's usually something swimming around in my head long before I allow myself to…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="https://alyssawright.com/ramblings/blog/3262895/the-blank-canvass--3">Read more</a></span></div>
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        <div class="message">Our <a href="http://amitytrio.ca/">Amity Trio</a> concert yesterday, coupled with an article in <a href="http://www.allthingsstrings.com/">Strings</a> on forming an ensemble, combined, perhaps, with many of the thoughts that have been flitting through my dearly beloved's and my heads over what we want to be when…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="https://alyssawright.com/ramblings/blog/3262896/not-settling--3">Read more</a></span></div>
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        <div class="message"><p>It was my birthday yesterday. &nbsp;My sister gave me a book called <a href="http://merrillmarkoe.com/books/its-my-f-ing-birthday-a-novel">"It's My F---ing Birthday"</a>, a series of "state of the union" addresses the thirty-something and then forty-something main character gives herself on seven subsequent birthdays. &nbsp;Upon visiting…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="https://alyssawright.com/ramblings/blog/3262897/happy-birthday-baby-narcissist--3">Read more</a></span></div>
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        <div class="message">"The truth will set you free"<br><br>A lovely platitude... but total crap.<br><br>Not that I'm dissing the truth, here. &nbsp;Anyone who knows me has seen me in action, my sword in hand, carving away at the B.S. and "beautiful lies"…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="https://alyssawright.com/ramblings/blog/3262898/the-truth-will-set-you-free--3">Read more</a></span></div>
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        <div class="message">I gave an improvisation workshop last weekend to a group of budding young singer-songwriters. &nbsp;My main focus with them was on listening -- the most important part of any musical endeavour, in my opinion -- and we did many exercises…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="https://alyssawright.com/ramblings/blog/3262899/the-birth-of-a-note--3">Read more</a></span></div>
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        <div class="message">One of my favourite questions from students is "when will I be good enough to not have to practise any more?"<br><br>There are two equally valid and truthful answers to this question:<br><br>1. You're already good enough, and<br>2. Never…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="https://alyssawright.com/ramblings/blog/3262900/when-will-i-be-good-enough--3">Read more</a></span></div>
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        <div class="message">In talking about life and emotional fitness, I talk a lot about having the right tools in your toolbox, and knowing how and when to use them. &nbsp; 
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        <div class="message">In the process of pondering personal abuse, I was silly enough to watch some of the footage of the NYC police department closing in on the Occupy Wall Street protesters.<br><br>And my heart broke further.<br><br>It's the same premise, really…<span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="https://alyssawright.com/ramblings/blog/3262902/abuse-of-people-abuse-of-power--3">Read more</a></span></div>
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