Renewal

Renewal

At the beginning of every academic year, I drive on to our beautiful St. Paul university campus with a mixture of wistfulness, savoring the last precious days of summer, time at my sewing machine, working in my garden, attending summer music festivals, people-watching at the State Fair, combined with a wonderful sense of growing anticipation and excitement in contemplating meeting my new and reconnecting with my returning students. I think of all the new music that will be learned, the personal, artistic and technical growth that will happen with each one of us, their teacher, included.

Fall is a time of transition but also of renewal, a reaffirming of discipline, self-examination, goals, and perspective.