Welcome to the Year 2021
Welcome to the year 2021! It’s my deepest belief that 2021 will be a year for hope, healing, and renewal. We made it through the terrible 2s (2020), so it’s time to reap our rewards!
The year 2020 has been unlike any year in my entire six-plus decades on this planet. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say, with great enthusiasm, I’m happy that year is OVER!
If I’m being honest, 2020 wasn’t 100% bad for me; in fact, there were tremendous upsides to balance the tremendous downsides of it. So, from a personal standpoint, I would be doing the wonderful things I experienced a grave disservice by labeling the entire year of 2020 as a dismal failure. Yes, it was awful, but if you’re reading this, you’re still here, and that in itself is great.
Right Notes Music has continued to offer music lessons through it all, albeit with some interesting challenges. After suffering a debilitating injury (temporary, thank goodness) that sidelined me for several weeks, we all suffered a debilitating blow. For me, almost immediately after roaring back from my injury with a nearly full roster, I lost more than half of my students due to THE VIRUS (TV) scare and subsequent lockdown. Since the summer I’ve managed to recover a few, but right when I think I may get most of them back, another “crisis” ensues, throwing all plans out of the window.
Thankfully, I’ve been teaching online for quite some time, so the transition wasn’t terrible. But being forced online as a necessity presented some interesting conundrums. Prior to 2020, it was my ultimate goal to teach 75% or more online, eventually, just for the sake of location flexibility. The only reason I didn’t achieve my goal prior to the arrival of TV, was a bit of laziness on my part, and the level of comfort and joy seeing students in person gave me. Pre-TV, with some encouragement, I might have had more willing students’ for online lessons. Post-TV? That’s a whole other can of worms.
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That Was Then…
That was then… 2020, that is. This is now. Well, any minute now it’ll be 2021. A year full of hope and healing is up at-bat, headed for the plate.
I’ve upgraded my equipment considerably for online teaching in order to give my students a much better learning experience. I still try each and every day to add something new or improve in some way, always seeking to make the learning environment better and better. Better sound, picture, upgraded connection. Now, I’m working on helper visual aids…
They say necessity is the mother of invention. I have to agree. Not only have I improved my online teaching dramatically, but I’ve come to enjoy it so much more than before. I thought it might be a love/hate thing, but it’s really not. I enjoy it very much. We were all forced out of our comfort zones and into, for many of us, uncharted, or barely explored territories. Turbulent seas, in fact. 2020 was our “learning curve,” and it was steep and peppered with hairy challenges (from Hades, I’d say), but…
2021? Well, now, I want to believe 2021 is our year to reap what we’ve sown in the way of redefining our lives and our work, through sheer will and necessity. 2021 will be our reward for surviving a year none of us could have ever imagined in 2019 (except for sadists—they must have loved 2020). Yes, a bounty is coming, greater than we could have expected. I believe it. Do you?
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