Composing a Requiem: What Is A Requiem?
Every time I tell people that I’m composing a requiem, they almost always say, “What’s a requiem?” Well, here you go…
Creative Insights
Along the way, Stan Stewart has learned a few things about creativity. He shares them with you in the hope that you’ll respond with your confirmation or perhaps that your experience is completely different. Both are welcome.
This is also a place where you’ll find some articles about inspiration. After all, that’s an essential part of artistic creativity, too.
Long Pandemic – On Finding Our Way
We are finding our way. In my workplace and neighborhood, we’ve been responding to the pandemic for over a year. Reflecting back, it has been a strange year. In addition to some current reflections, I’ll offer you some of my other posts about the pandemic experience from the past year. Remembering Loved Ones Gone No
Loneliness and the Power of Convergence
The pandemic has led to so many challenges for creatives and human beings in general. Yet there is also a convergence coming out of it.
On Moving My Parents Across the Country
My parents just moved across the USA. Little did I know how ‘moving” this journey would be when we started it.
How To Become (though I’m still in process)
Getting Started With every project and process in our human lives, we must first get started. For so many of us who pursue our creative arts, it is far too easy to question our motives, procrastinate, doubt, or fail to recognize the cathartic nature of the creative process. Though we may question this truth before
Be Ready – “How To Become” Moving Water Video
Be ready. Here’s the first track you can hear from my soon-to-be-released album, “How To Become”. It comes in the form of a moving water video meditation. I hope you find it inspiring. (The video is at the end of this article or here.) Water Human bodies are more than 50% water. You’d think we’d
Heaven – how listening to music transports us
Listening to “Heaven” and other music can transport us. Music can even be addictive, but maybe that’s a good thing.
“Don’t Be Fooled” – an introspective instrumental
“Don’t Be Fooled” – original music, an introspective instrumental from Stan Stewart; accompanied here by a story of human becoming.
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Inspiration from tall Taughannock Falls
I don’t have much to say. Just this one thing: I am so grateful to live in an area with so much inspiration. Big T Inspiration In particular, Taughannock Falls is always spectacular. When it’s dry, the rock face and the incredible single-drop waterfall still inspires. During high volume times, the massive passage of water
We Have All Been Tested
Tested – this is one thing we all seem to have in common in the pandemic of 2020.