My Blog No. 1
Hello, Dear Reader.
I am a grateful, recovering human being. 😊
Thankful for the near-miraculous help of countless teachers and doctors, most recently at Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center, I am a composer and author.
Still, I have OCD— Obsessive Composing Disorder.🤣
Writing is my opportunity to experience a state of unselfconscious flow. It is an exploration: intense, impassioned, cathartic, in turns joyful, loving, sad, grief-stricken, frightened, overwhelmed enraged.
It is my most sincere wish that the fruits of this journey, supported, informed by so many might help not only myself, but at least one other person.
I am writing this blog at the suggestion of my manager, David Stevens. David & I recently starting working together. This is the first time in my life I ever hired a manager. It feels like a big step. I used to joke that my career would begin when I retire. I have been retired from teaching for seven years. During this this time, I feel, also for the first time in my life, that I have a created a body of work which I want to share with a wider audience.
KDL June 25, 2025
P.S. One of the books my adult son left at the home I share with my wife and partner, his mother, is "Meditations" which Marcus Aurelius wrote for himself. Although I have noticed the book on the shelf for years, it was only yesterday that something invited me to begin. Marcus' first gift: A desire to learn his humility and devotion to service.
