Getting back to your issues with practice as a, as a child, do you have a problem with the word practice? Do you call it something else or ...

No.

I mean, I definitely at some point had to kind of reframe what that word meant to me, there's no question.

Um, but you know, the more I look at it now from the vantage point that I stand at this age, is that I needed to find a relationship to practice that was about me and the instrument.

I had the most wonderful violin teacher to start with.

He couldn't have been more generous and more giving.

It was a S- Suzuki teacher.

But-