by Janette Beverley | Oct 22, 2019 | Janette Beverley: Reaching Toward the Light
How do we define empathy, and is it possible to feel truly empathetic towards others in a perfect way? According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of empathy reads, in part: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and...
by Janette Beverley | Aug 29, 2019 | Janette Beverley: Reaching Toward the Light
If you ask any of my piano students what my favorite method of teaching is, they will tell you it is what I call the “3-2-1 approach.” It is a rather cumbersome activity that creates tremendous growth by repeating a phrase, line, or measure of music over...
by Janette Beverley | Jul 27, 2019 | Janette Beverley: Reaching Toward the Light
Why is it that no matter what you do, no matter what painstaking efforts you make to keep it all together…. the laundry will be finished and you will inevitably have only one sock to every pair you washed? Does the dryer eat a sock as payment for its hard work? Or are...
by Janette Beverley | Jul 11, 2019 | Janette Beverley: Reaching Toward the Light
Sometimes in life we are hit with some tough questions that we simply don’t know the answers to—questions like Why didn’t God make broccoli taste like chocolate and chocolate taste like broccoli? I would be a much healthier person if only that premortal choice had...
by Janette Beverley | Jul 4, 2019 | Janette Beverley: Reaching Toward the Light
Not everything that sounds good, is good. I learned this lesson the hard way when I was studying at the University of Utah and decided to listen to opinions of others instead of figuring things out for myself. Back then, there were many “fad” diets...
