Christa Wells

I want to tell you about Masterpiece Project 2010. Our theme this year was “Frame the Clouds,” and you’ll just have to believe me when I say I did not have anything to do with that. But I was humbled, so grateful that the concept resonates with others. The staff at Masterpiece are not all [...]

It’s obvious she has the bug.  She is 6 and can’t keep from it.   Small brown fingers push the sound from the ivory and I watch her do what I do. Play.  Evaluate.  Try a new way.  Repeat.  Build a pattern, wonder where it must go next. She is emotive.  Sometimes loud.  Often tragic (her [...]

I begin by seeing (I’m a visual learner).  Feeling waves roll in, scales fall, the earth shift slightly underfoot…how have I lived this long and not known this? A secret overlay becomes visible and wheels turn…scaffolding is erected on the interior walls of the mind, frames hung, phrases chalked alongside, and I start the climb… [...]

(This was originally a “page” on my former blog…since I don’t yet have a place for it in this new blog format, I thought I’d share it again as a “post.”) I’m sure I have it documented somewhere, maybe on a piece of notebook paper, but I can’t recall it.  I do know it was [...]

**IF YOU RESPONDED TO THIS POST, WOULD YOU PLEASE SEND YOUR MAILING ADDRESS TO: toby@christawellsmusic.com ? We’ll get your copy of the book in the mail to you — Thanks so much! I’ve talked about this book before and now…Artist/Author Ron Kelsey has graciously sent me 50 copies of his book, Reflections of Generosity, to [...]