Katri Ervamaa, cellist
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1/5/2015

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I guess taking two weeks off of cello (possibly also being on break from the JOB) freed up some headspace and I have had some strangely philosophical thoughts lately. Especially about choices...

I suppose people who know themselves well are thought to be mature (in comparison to those who don't know themselves too well, anyway). But I'm only beginning to realize how much we not only define ourselves by knowing who we are, but by the choices we make. Of course we base our choices on who we know ourselves to be, but can't we also base them on who we'd like to be?  

I guess it's one thing to want to be somebody else, and another to want to be yourself, but better. 

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry asks Dumbledore, why the sorting hat did not place him in the Slytherin House even though many of his skills are so like Voldemort's. Dumbledore's answer? "It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities".  
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    Katri Ervamaa, cellist

    University of Michigan lecturer in chamber music, Residential College Music Program Head

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    Cellist with Brave New Works, the Muse Trio and E3Q

    Mother of three

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