Redefining "best"
After a 30-year hiatus, Paul returns to composing music with intentions of learning about “doing my best,” instead of “being the best.”
Redefining “best”
Sunday, June 5, 2011 · Topics: best-self, creativity, music-composition, personal-growth, positive-emotions, reflected-best-self
After a 30-year hiatus, Paul returns to a music composition project with intentions of learning about “doing my best,” instead of “being the best.” · Read more →
Make Our Garden Grow
Client: All Saints Church Music
Sunday, June 5, 2011 · Topics: music, music-composition
From Candide, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, arranged for double chorus and organ by Paul Dupree · Read more →
Character is in the trying
Friday, May 6, 2011 · Topics: character-strengths, personal-growth, right-wrong
From Friday Night Lights, Coach Taylor and his star quarterback learn lessons about being “the best.” · Read more →
Redefining “best,” part 2
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 · Topics: ambiguity, command-and-control, creativity, fear, uncertainty
I just completed a second music composition project for 2011 after a 30-year hiatus from writing. Learning to live with ambiguity shows up again, plus more shifting my identity from what I do to who I am, as in “I am enough.” Ah, the saga continues. · Read more →
