Beautiful friends!

Dear MATs,

I miss you all dearly, and I sort of feel like writing you a love letter right now, as I've had quite a difficult week and miss the comfort of your guaranteed presences.

What a year we had! As soon as everything is processed, and some of the dust has settled (still reflecting), I want to write a big, big post, about something. About the year? About us? I'm not sure. But there is just so much there.

Thanks to Debz and Zach who were awesome and got the first posting prizes :) We want to hear more as soon as you've moved into your adventures even more!!! I was thinking, how would we feel about having some posting "prompts" from time to time? Just a question that is on someone's mind, and we can all reflect on it?

I leave for Seattle on September 12th. Whoever is left in town: let's do this. Also, anyone who wants to come to Seattle (ahem, Novala, I can get you gigs...), mi casa es su casa.

Something that has been on my mind lately, if anyone wants to respond to it:

How do we, as artists and teachers, deal with "the comfort zone"? As in, are we at our best when we are in our element, or should we seek out opportunities to jump beyond our element? How do you find your balance?

Hey guys! I will be moving to the Bay Area in a few weeks - I recently got a job teaching music at 2 elementary schools in Oakland through a non-profit company called zsharp. I'm very excited to move north and start teaching in a few weeks. It's all happening so fast! Right now I'm in New York visiting with my family, and then I'll be heading straight to San Francisco for the training this coming weekend. I'll be back in LA on Monday, August 18th, and I want to make sure to see everyone before I leave!!

Hope everyone is doing well. I love you all :)

-Debbie

So, I was in Vegas for this past week (Wed, Thur & Fri) for 3 day Big Picture teaching conference with my new school, the MUSEschool.org.  This conference made our Symposium seem like a uptight joke.  It was amazing.

Brandon was in Syracuse NY visiting his family. We both got home on Fri night and had a grand party on Saturday night!  We really missed you guys.

Brandon birthday was today. (Remember last year when we got together in my small apt and surprised him?)

We went to Topanga Beach today with some new killer musician friends that we met at the party.  Topanga is amazing... it was our first time checking it out...

Till soon I hope,
Zach