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February 8, 2010
Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos has posted a new blog article titled "Reflections on Teaching Shakuhachi". Excerpt:
Reflections on Teaching Shakuhachi Well, it’s been a while! I hope everyone’s winter is going as well as possible. My winter has been quite introspective, but busy nonetheless with teaching and flute making. So writing has been on the back burner. But now that the weather is getting bit warmer, my brain is revving up with it so I feel like writing again. I am so thankful for the shakuhachi as it has made my life deeper and has opened me up to worlds of beauty and wonder. It seems today that everything is so disconnected, fragmented, split apart; everything from families, to ...Read the rest of this article...
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