Getting back to our series on Having a Practice …

The next (and last) 1000 First Editions finally arrived from the printers.

I have to say, I was blown away by the responses to last week’s post, “A Poll.” Thanks to everyone who wrote in … and to everybody else who responded in their mind, if not with their keyboard.

I’m curious about something. Can you guys help me out?

Why do we have a practice at all? I have my own reasons, some of which definitely go deep into the airy-fairy, but the most obvious and the most practical is this:

I can’t resist putting up one more ballet story from my great friend and mentor, David Leddick.

My great friend and mentor (and also my first boss), David Leddick, spent several years as a ballet dancer with the Metropolitan Opera. David trained with a celebrated teacher named Margaret Craske.

Have you ever seen the books (and magazine) Where Women Create by Jo Packham? They’re prose-and-photo shoutouts to craftspersons—all female.

I was thinking about the activities that come most immediately to mind when we think of “having a practice.”