Creatively Aging

I know the world wide web is a place where so much can be learned but, frankly, I often prefer a newspaper. Why? Maybe it’s because I can cradle it in my hands. And so often  a good newspaper (much less a great one) will bring information I can’t or don’t see any other way. There’s too much on the web for me to find it!

And to this category comes an article on Danielle de Niese, a young soprano who is taking the opera houses of Europe and the United State by storm. I’m fascinated by her life, her work, her training but what catches my eye is her philosphy of the moment:

Her watchwords of the moment were from some Stairmaster pop from the ’90s called “You Get What You Give,” by the New Radicals: infectious downbeat, 4/4 time. Softly she began to sing: “Don’t let go, you got the music in you…Don’t give up, you got a reason to live/Can’t forget, we only get what we give!”"

We only get what we give: a philosophy of creativity. A philosophy of life.