Archive - Play It By Ear

[repost] The brain wants what it wants, 🧠♥️

or else it does not care. Emily Dickinson was wrong about anatomy but right about love. (THE BODY IS THE SOUL #6)

Feb 14, 2024 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

October 2023

Quick update. Still on hiatus....

I plan to start up again but not until mid-2024. Here's why.

Oct 31, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

July 2023

RIP Sinéad O'Connor

I don't know how even a brave soul like you could survive the suicide of a teen child.

Jul 26, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

5:06

May 2023

Too big to succeed.

Important cultural context for the Hollywood writers' strike.

May 16, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

April 2023

Goodbye for now, and thanks.

PLAY IT BY EAR will go quiet so I can concentrate on writing a book.

Apr 18, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

11:05

Join me on Notes

A new place to connect that is specifically not owned by Elon Musk and never will be.

Apr 12, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

My dear friends and readers:

update regarding my mother.

Apr 3, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

March 2023

Life in a memoir trance

...is fruitful but only sometimes fun and also hard to sustain.

Mar 28, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

February 2023

(1) Please wish me well on my March sabbatical...

Also: (2) Should you read all 896 pages of THE DELUGE? and (3) a quote about emotional intelligence worth mulling over.

Feb 28, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

[Audio] Exist locally, despair globally.

On the challenge of maintaining a stable, useful perspective.

Feb 24, 2023

10:38

Exist locally, despair globally.

On the challenge of maintaining a stable, useful perspective.

Feb 24, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

AI chatbots have no souls but also no accountability.

The real reason to be spooked by last week's weird tech reporting. (THE BODY IS THE SOUL #7)

Feb 21, 2023 •

Sandhya, writer & musician

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