

You are Your Instrument
Hope everyone enjoyed their Easter holiday, had a great spring break, time change, and March Madness. Whew! Oh yes a full moon too! ‘You are Your Instrument’, by Julie Lyonn Lieberan, is a very interesting book and makes one contemplate all of the aspects of the art of being a musician. The following is her bio and a book review of the of the publication. Her Bio, which I found in a Bing search, is impressive: Julie Lyonn Lieberman is a pioneer teacher of music improvisation


Of Ice and Algae
As you all may recall it was just a few short weeks ago that we were having one of the coldest cold spells on record for this part of Kansas. A friend of mine asked if my koi would be alright? She said, “Your koi pond is surely frozen over by now. How can your fish survive? You cannot feed them, and they cannot get any oxygen.” So, I explained to her how it works. I said, “First of all, we have an aerator which keeps the surface of the water in motion and thereby ensuring