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Now available for pre-order is Portraits of Everyday Practice in Music Therapy, a volume I co-edited with Kate Myers-Coffman that eschewes the extraordinary to focus on the realities of the everyday to provide eyes-to-the-ground perspectives for students and new professionals
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I’m so disgusted by what I just witnessed. In Amsterdam, Israelis & Jews leaving a soccer match were beaten unconscious by mobs, thrown in the river, and forced to say “free Palestine.” This is the direct result of normalizing antisemitism post Oct. 7, where the most flagrant acts of Jew-hatred were cast aside as just “bleeding hearts who are against the war.”
Remind me again how these are all just kind people who care about humanity.
If you can’t bring yourself to speak up now—after failing the Jewish community for the past year with silence and/or by insisting that “globalize the intifada” was anything other than a dogwhistle to harass Jews around the world—you have no right to call yourself a humanitarian.
9/11 happened my freshman year of college, a terrifying experience made more terrifying living apart from family for the first time. I saw that same fear in the eyes of first year students this week with Trump's election. How many generational traumas can a generation absorb?
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Chandler Bing made it ok to not be ok while trying to figure out how the hell you fit into this world, and I remain grateful for Matthew Perry making that so real for me when I was a teenager
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At a conference thinking we should collectively make it a rule to stop inviting self-appointed "coaches", "visionaries", etc. to provide opening session and plenary speeches. Usually their 60-minute spiel can be summarized well enough in a tidy Facebook meme.
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Your Jewish friends are not doing ok right now. Even the ones who have spent years steeped in the conflict and who have been fighting for peace & human rights for all.
The epigenetic trauma of seeing Jews pulled from their homes, kidnapped, & killed — it’s real. 1/
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Uber driver: "Heading to work? What do you do?"
Me: "I'm organizing an event to prevent euthanasia and encourage hope."
Uber driver: "My dad actually had MAID. It hasn't even been a year. I supported it since that's what he wanted and he was terminal. But let me tell you: it's the most fucked up thing knowing your dad is going to die in 7 days, then 5 days, then 1 day, then in 15 minutes."
The Uber driver and I continued to chat for a bit. He thanked me for the conversation, said he hasn't gotten over watching his dad be killed, and that his position on MAID has become complicated by what he and his family experienced.
#cdnpoli #assisteddying #euthanasia #MAID
The Days of Awe btwn Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are an annual reminder that it's a miracle we are still here, that after centuries of persecution we persist, that we can still gather in shared space to construct all the meaning we can from whatever that sharing has to offer.
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Work with older adults is often dismissed as “forgiving” because they won’t externally challenge the same way people in other settings will, but that doesn’t mean they’re not experiencing something deep or that they are not as deserving of our full attention and creativity
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I have come to love the two weeks when students, particularly first years, move onto campus and classes begin - there are so many profound rituals of transition taking place that eventually blossom into meaningful collective experiences among the various student cohorts
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On Wed 9/13, Duquesne University will host an info session about their Master of Music Therapy. The program focuses on medical & community settings, and students receive a 25% tuition discount and are eligible for GA positions. Come learn more about it!
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Noah reads the syllabus retweeted
Today I’m hearing all of the good old boys and girls saying if you don’t like Jason Aldean you don’t have to listen to him. Gotcha. And if you don’t like certain library books you don’t have to ban them ‘cause you ain’t going to read them.
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WATCH >> Ron DeSantis defends new curriculum that will teach children how slaves *benefited* from slavery.
"They're probably going to show some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into, into doing things later in life."
This is all built on the premise that a college education is the same thing as vocational training, and while degrees should absolutely impart skills needed in the workforce, the measure of a graduate's success is in who they are as a citizen rather than what they do as a worker.
Not that you asked for it, but my 2 cents on how to fix *both* college admissions *and* student loan problem. Probably a lot wrong with my idea, but file it under "just so crazy it might work." 1/x
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I resonate with the tragedy that is the submarine implosion in the way that I do with any untimely death, but can we do without the flowery eulogies about the virtues of the super wealthy without an equal accounting for the refugees who died off the coast of Greece this week?
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The thing about “debate me” bros wanting to debate scientists is that you can’t effectively argue with a professional public arguer without becoming a public professional arguer, and most scientists are (and should be) professional scientists.
Music therapists would be wise to take stock of the message here. Merely existing in space where good things are happening is never going to be the effective advocacy we need to ensure fluidly accessible services and stable job growth/opportunities.
nytimes.com/2023/06/05/opini…
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Don Jr. among others has shared this video.
I don’t think any of us are ready for this next election online.
When did being a DJ devolve from creative spinning into playing 60 second clips while yelling random things at the crowd?
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“It’s about family, and that’s what’s so powerful about it.” - Carrie Fisher
#MayThe4thBeWithYou 💫
