<p>New goal on the blog: sharing music every day as a break and boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you can start here. Today&#8217;s post borrows one of my older videos. This is a complete sonata by Wolfgang &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/21/shadows-and-light/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Shadows and Light</sp

<p>I’m now making it a goal to share some music every day on the blog, as a break and mental boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you’d like to check out earlier posts, you can start here. Today&#8217;s piece is one of my &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/20/finding-peace/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Finding Peace</span></a></p>

<p>I’m now making it a goal to share some music every day on the blog, as a break and mental boost during these unsettling times. Hope this will brighten your day and help you stay well. 🙂 If you&#8217;d like to check out earlier posts, you can start here. Today&#8217;s post features more music by &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/19/songs-without-words-part-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Songs without Words, par

<p>If you&#8217;d like to catch up on the new project here on the blog, check out this post. The &#8220;One Bright Thing&#8221; project from January has returned and morphed a little. I&#8217;m now making it a goal to share some music every day, as a break and mental boost during these unsettling times. Hope this &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/18/a-little-light-music/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Little Light&

<p>(If you&#8217;d like to catch up on what the blog has been up to lately, check out this post!) Today&#8217;s music is another sonata slow movement: the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven&#8217;s Pastorale Sonata (Op. 28 if you&#8217;re keeping score). If I had to pick a single favorite composer, it would be Beethoven. He &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/17/beethoven-a-character/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text

<p>In the spirit of the new One Bright Thing project on the blog: a little space for your day. The music featured today is the slow movement of a sonata by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), one of the greats of the Classical era of music history. Mozart&#8217;s style is often elegant and precise, the kind &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/16/mozart-meditation/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Mozart Meditation</span

<p>Continuing with my &#8220;keep calm and make art&#8221; project, as a way to refill and replenish during these strange and stressful times. Today&#8217;s One Bright Thing post features more music, another three-fer. These short pieces (each about 2 minutes long) are by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, who belongs to the Romantic era in music history &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/15/songs-without-words/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span c

<p>So it&#8217;s definitely time I got back to this project. It seems like a good time to put some good energy out, and maybe offer a little distraction from all the stress of the day-to-day. 🙂 My OBT posts will most likely focus on music for a while. While pretty much quarantined, one of my &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/03/14/one-bright-thing-revisited/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">One Bright Thing,&nbsp;revisit

<p>Yesterday was &#8220;one of those days.&#8221; If you&#8217;re an artist of any stripe, you probably know what it&#8217;s like to wonder why you&#8217;re still trying to do this work, and whether or not you should be. Even if you&#8217;re not an artist, you&#8217;ve probably been there at some point. That&#8217;s where I was yesterday, and &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/02/05/obt-day-14/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-t

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 13 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” most days. (The original goal was every day, but it now seems like several times a week is more reasonable.) This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/31/obt-day-13/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">OBT day 13</span></a></p>

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 12 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” most days. (The original goal was every day, but it now seems like several times a week is more reasonable. 😉 ) This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/27/obt-day-12/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">OBT day 12</span></a></p>

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 11 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day…or at least most days. This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety and depression. Tonight I&#8217;m giving a piano performance. That&#8217;s something I haven&#8217;t been &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/23/obt-day-11/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">OBT day 11</span></a></p>

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 10 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day…or at least most days. This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety and depression. Speaking of anxiety, yesterday I had to have my car worked &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/21/obt-day-10/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">OBT day 10</span></a></p>

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 9 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day…or at least most days. This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety and depression. Last week, I was feeling especially down, so I asked myself how &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/19/obt-day-9/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">OBT day 9</span></a></p>

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 8 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day…or at least most days. This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety and depression. Last week, I was feeling especially down, so I asked myself how &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/17/obt-day-8/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">OBT Day 8</span></a></p>

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 7 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day…or at least most days. This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety and depression. Last week, I was feeling especially down, so I asked myself how &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/16/one-bright-thing-day-7/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">One Bright Thing, day&nbsp;7</span></a></

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 6 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day…or at least most days. This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety and depression. The ordinary day-to-day gets complicated by the weather, the increased hours &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/14/one-bright-thing-day-6/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">One Bright Thing, day&nbsp;6

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 5 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day&#8230;or at least most days. This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety and depression. The ordinary day-to-day gets complicated by the weather, the increased hours &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/13/one-bright-thing-day-5/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">One Bright Thing, day&

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 4 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day. This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety and depression. A few days ago, I was feeling especially down, so I asked myself how I &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/11/one-bright-thing-day-4/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">One Bright Thing, day&nbsp;4</span></a></p>

<p>#OBTChallenge Day 3 My new goal on the blog for a while is to post one “bright thing” every day. This can be a tough time of year for those of us, like me, who struggle with anxiety and depression. A few days ago, I was feeling especially down, so I asked myself how I &hellip; </p> <p><a href="https://krisfaatz.com/2020/01/10/one-bright-thing-day-3/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">One Bright Thing, day&nbsp;3</span></a></p>