These are our good friends Scott & Leora who we met on Salt Spring Island! Hope you love it - and if you do - subscribe you beautiful people!! Happy 2026! May all your best wishes and highest blessings come true!

Hi Tribers! I am sure you have experienced this - whether in school or in life or with a romantic relationship (dating the same person in different body? Sounds familiar?? lol) or playing a musical instrument… Lessons return (or repeat) if we have not learned them the 1st, 2nd or heck even 300th time… I thought I have learned my lesson of not making assumptions. And logically my thought process was like - I have worked many years on myself to not judge book by its cover - to not judge others - as when we first meet someone - we don’t know their circumstances, upbringing and internal battles. So for me - not being judgmental ALSO meant not make any assumptions. Logical… right? WRONG!!!! And this morning I learned this. Hers is what happened. Our Triber @Dinka Salvador had reached out to me several weeks ago, inviting me to speak in a summit. I thanked her for thinking of me and said yes. The summit is in January so I have left going over any details that are needed for the next couple of days… I found out today that the speakers’ spots were filled within 3 days (a few weeks ago) and I needed to register myself. Duh 🙄 Either my blondness or my business didn’t allow me to see it this way. Most likely is a combo of both. What I know now is: 1. I ASSUMED that just because I am integral and do as I say, people automatically know it. Wrong!!! Lots of people say all kind of stuffs all the time… and don’t follow through 2. I ASSUMED that me saying yes to Dinka it’s a done deal and I am scheduled. Wrong! Dinka, as she shared w me earlier, would never do such a thing out of respect!! So you see how this is a lesson that I needed to learn? Don’t assume anything!! To be honest I was not even aware I was assuming! I will be more mindful in the future and ask myself often - “am I assuming things here?” What’s your take and experience on assuming?

Hiya music lovers, I recently found a beautiful interview between Rick Ruben and Paul McCartney on Disney+ in taking some veg time - and it is really great. There is a lot of revisiting of song elements and hearing Paul play and show his passion of playing and piano is really neat. Risk hs an interesting way of pulling some gems and his perspectives on sound and music is awesome! Just thought I would share:)

Hi Tribers - we here, started as piano community in April. The point was to learn piano, stay motivated, improve skillset, meet friends that are likeminded. And then, we started getting in Tribers that do not play piano but play all kinds of other different instruments. We also have been getting in a lot of Tribers that do not play any instruments but like to vibe with us. A ton! I came to Skool cuz I had 2 back to back accidents and had to cancel a summer European tour (AND BURNING MAN!!!!) and needed to go to therapy 5 days a week and stay put… I made a piano community cuz I was new to Skool and knew that there is a learning curve - so I picked the lowest hanging fruit… for me… PIANO — as I have been playing and teaching worldwide for the past 30+ years… with great success! So why not use the piano tribe as a learning ground and help a ton of people in the process?!! But, I am not gonna lie, I just can’t. I say it how it is and often people don’t like it, but oh well… Piano only - felt, umm restricted… to me… believe it or not… that’s the truth!!!! I also produce my own music — in different genres and even became a DJ — so I can spin my own records… cuz none of my DJ friends wanted to spin them — the tracks were either too complicated or too long until getting to the point or had too much classical piano in them — pretty much “too sh1tty” lol, to be spun in a club setting… Even when I founded Alexandrova School of Music in 2010 and included more instruments and teachers in our curriculum - still felt restricted and not to mention I was close to burnout the majority of time due to overwhelming amount of quality control that was required from me. I gradually slowed that down… In 2020 (we all know what happened then) I founded V1B1N - and did a series of virtual worldwide fundraisers for victims of natural disasters (typhoons, tsunamis, wild fires, hurricanes, etc). The collected funds were going directly to the associated charities and I have not taken a dollar from those.

@Casey Fox this gif you made for me is so super awesome!!! And I didn’t ask for it 💕💕💕 thank you!!!! Also, super welcome here!!!!! Let’s celebrate!! Cuz, until further notice, celebrate everything!! (MMM) Cuz why not??? How amazing is this???