music, therapy, and me

This morning, I saw a link for the live Twitter feed from the AMTA Business Meeting that happened earlier this week. I would like to thank Kyle Fleming, MT-BC for tweeting during the meeting as a record of some of the things that were shared. It has greatly helped my understanding of what is going on in the American Music Therapy Association, and I recommend that others who are curious and confused read this feed as a place to find some information. I have saved this thread in my AMTA 2021 folder on my computer so I can continue to parse through the comments and issues that are returning over and over again to our conversations. This thread joins several other resources that people have sent to me over the past week as I have been writing about our association and what is going on. I still feel very strongly that we need to be reorganizing how we do things within the membership of AMTA. I also feel very strongly that we need to be focusing on the membership and not those who have dec...

By the way, this is an extremely opinionated post - I figure that this is my blog, and I encourage different perspectives and point of view, but, ultimately, this is my place to think about my profession and where I fit in it. Feel free to comment, unfollow me, or write responses to what I post - I will read everything and select what I want to share with the bigger world...Now that's been said...here we go. This has been a strange year for us all. The "way we do things" is changing in all aspects. I started crying a couple of weeks ago when I was watching a movie where people went to a restaurant to eat with people not in their immediate families. I miss just going shopping because it is Saturday, and I want to get out of the house. (I don't do that these days because of the need to remain as germ-free as possible due to my role as a live, in-person, essential health care worker. The responsibility is always there...) My sister has not met her current crop of second ...

I tend to have a difficult month when May starts up. This is the time of year when everything and anything goes wrong. I didn't think too much about the electricity failure and the toilet malfunction on Monday, but when I got completely soaked on Tuesday and had to wear my pajama pants for snow days for all of my work, I remembered the time of year and what usually happens. Today, I received notification that I can't do something I want to do, and that just fully cemented the May curse for me. Yesterday's curse contribution included the news that things are changing at my facility and that the way I've been told I have to do things will no longer work, but folks don't seem to understand that, so I'm having to do lots of thinking and some convincing that stuff will need to change. So, you may be thinking, "Curse? Seriously? That sounds ridiculous!" I agree, but things have happened so much over the years, that I expect that something pretty big wi...