The older I get, the more important cat-cow and cobra seem to be. Squats too. Balance, flexibility the body\u2019s way of reminding you it still wants to participate. When I was a teenager, I read something by Lao-Tzu that never left me. He described a leaf on the ground crumpled, brittle, drained of color and compared it to one still on the branch, supple and green. His simple conclusion: rigidity, sign of death; flexibility, sign of life. I think about it at the piano now. The new pieces aren\u2019t about mastery or even beauty. They\u2019re exercises in staying pliant, bending toward whatever happens next. Each a small negotiation with gravity, proof something inside still moves. The older I get, the more the body and the music seem to be practicing the same thing: the art of not breaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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