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To: SI Bob who wrote (2751)	3/22/2005 3:38:09 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4895

I think that is SO cool - and can easily understand your priorities. :) Besides, such talent cannot be kept under wraps. It will out,no matter what. I hope she tries out for Juilliard - she has absolutely nothing to lose. I'd love to see the picture - does she favor you or your wife? And is that soda shop still on the corner?

To: SI Bob who wrote (2751)	3/23/2005 12:45:09 AM
From: kirby49	Respond to of 4895

Great stuff Bob. The OCD thing reminds me of my violin. It was given to me by an aunt who told me her great grandfather used to sleep with it to keep it at body temperature before the days of central heating. Not a Strad however :( But like all good hand made violins over 100 years old they just keep appreciating. :) I got it when I was 11, but my parents insisted I continue piano for another two years until I qualified for my ATCM. I started when I was four. Anyway, as with the violin it was all classical, conservatory stuff. No fiddling or blues piano. Not very social. A month or so ago I went to see my music teacher who is now 94 and she asked me if I was still playing. I had to tell her no, but that a year or so ago I started to play the piano again. Had to make that breakthrough to popular playing. Since she had her Steinway Grand shipped to the nursing home she's in we had to go down to the lounge and I had to give her a little recital. I hadn't played that piano for 40 years. What a great instrument. What got me interested again was a TV show that I happened to catch the last 10 minutes of on PBS on Saturday morning while I was flipping through channels. I see that Springfield's KOZK broadcasts the show in your area. scotthouston.com I immediately phoned my older brother who plays free jazz with some heavyweights here in T.O. I said that I thought it was way too elementary for him, but that I'm sure he knew some people, (like his son) who had given up and that this was something to get them going again. As there is always one or two guests it's like having a different teacher with their own bag of tricks each week. My brother was hooked and says there is always something on the show he gets a big kick out of and tries to practice for the next week. Camera above the keys and they stop in the middle and talk about what they're doing. Maybe you've already seen it, but there might be someone else out there who reads this and starts tickling the ivories.

To: SI Bob who wrote (2751)	3/24/2005 8:53:38 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4895

"She asked if she could live comfortably on [$80k]..." Golly Bob, If she has the same people skills that you have, plus also having the same independent & stubborn & entrepreneur skills that you have, plus I'm sure a few from her mother, then nothing less than becoming a rich successful business owner will satisfy her. All the toys you have cost big bucks, thats the life style she see as a normal. If she uses her combined talents as a single unit then she can accomplish the above, and then investigate other options, like maybe her true calling is to be a marine biologist. Totally false for any gifted teenager to experience: "high school: excruciating boredom" The availability of technical journals has always been available, along with textbooks needed to bring one up to speed to read them. Why spend hours in classrooms that dumb down to near lowest person's ability. The time a teenager spends in highschool should challenge them, and if the system can't deliver the parents can insert a learning schedule that will supply a work/study load to match the student's ability. So much time & importance to be #1 and proud. To feed a person's superior talent to an extreme that prevents any kind of exploration into other areas of natural interest is to limit the person's ability to know what else is possible. If she can not look at a list of professions noted as those in history where a superior intellect is needed, and not be able to say that she has investigated them one by one and concluded "no interest" to all of them, then that person has not looked or given the time to look, or simply has been allowed to keep a focus too narrow. investorshub.com My Crystal Ball sees Darth at age 23 having a day job as a teacher to gifted students in a large city, and while the regular pay for other teachers in the level she works are not payed that much, Darth has a gift to interact both with young kids and their adult parents at a constructive level that leads to a higher success rate for learning, thus Darth is able to create her own small company Darth Solo Inc. and charge rates x10 what others charge. But Darth's day job is only to pay the house morgage on her big home in the subberbs with 3 arcers of land that once was a big farm house that now has a dozen big rooms made into individual office space that contains musical instrument for use during her day job to teach, and the single most largest room is where her band meets after work to practice for the gigs(sic) they perform at each weekend not for the low pay, but for The Love of Music.