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Jul. 1st, 2004 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hearthstoneThe weather is warm, Dan is planning to take the girls to drum circle a bit later.
Me, I gave up drumming, at least for the time being. I used to like it. I liked it because it was something I could do that let me hit that bordering-on-alpha thing, something totally right-brained. (I tend to be fairly rational in my thinking, so anything that takes me away from that once in a while is nice.) I sucked at it, without a doubt, but could kind of follow what folks were doing enough not to clash horribly. Then someone introduced the concept of using patterns, reading the rhythm from sheets of paper. And now I can't do it anymore. It's not a huge thing--I just liked to drum on occasion, I wasn't passionate about it--but, well, it's just no longer something I can do with no reference to the left side of the brain, and that means it is no longer something I want to do. If I can ever get rid of the tendency to pay conscious attention to what I am doing, maybe I will take it up again.
Me, I gave up drumming, at least for the time being. I used to like it. I liked it because it was something I could do that let me hit that bordering-on-alpha thing, something totally right-brained. (I tend to be fairly rational in my thinking, so anything that takes me away from that once in a while is nice.) I sucked at it, without a doubt, but could kind of follow what folks were doing enough not to clash horribly. Then someone introduced the concept of using patterns, reading the rhythm from sheets of paper. And now I can't do it anymore. It's not a huge thing--I just liked to drum on occasion, I wasn't passionate about it--but, well, it's just no longer something I can do with no reference to the left side of the brain, and that means it is no longer something I want to do. If I can ever get rid of the tendency to pay conscious attention to what I am doing, maybe I will take it up again.
