• Everybody Hurts

    February 22, 2019 - By 

    Despite pain making life more difficult, it has also given me what I consider to be one of my greatest strengths. I’ve learned to “default to empathy”in all situations, and it has truly changed the way I live my life. For years my pain made me bitter and resentful, but now, it makes it that much easier for me to identify with others and have compassion for anyone else suffering in any way. This took a conscious shift in mindset and certainly isn’t fool-proof, but now I believe my history of pain allows me to have empathy readily available in…

  • Part 2: What Fills Me Up

    February 8, 2019 - By 

    Your Passion Picks You The start of 2019 has been exhausting. The Moxie Strings have been doing mostly school performances and workshops, which leaves us a different level of exhausted. Often we find ourselves zombie-eyed between clinics, sitting for the first time in 3 hours, dreading the bell ringing and another onslaught of students entering because it means summoning the energy to get up from the chair and give all our energy to providing a peak, meaningful experience… for the 4th time that day. It feels insurmountable in the moment; but when we start performing for the students, the exhaustion…