“It’s a discovery of your inner landscape when you turn something over and over in your mind until suddenly you see it from a new viewpoint. It involves insight, and is illuminating, sometimes beautiful.”

“The thinker, the writer, the feeler experiences life itself as his best learning tree.”

“A quality life involves awareness, simplicity, magnanimity, and independence.”

-Marvin Swanson

I recently stumbled across a few words from a piano technician I regard highly. We tend to go from “simplicity to complexity to perplexity to harmony,” a poetic sequence of words describing many of life’s quests.