Degrees in Idealism

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Lenten Music

04.06.2019 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 2 Comments

A little late, but I wanted to share the playlist that helps me focus on the season. I hope it can help you too!

Categories // Soul Tags // #beauty, #catholicism, #lent, #music

Summer Stillness Playlist

07.01.2018 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

I often say I have reverse seasonal affective disorder as Summer is my least favorite season. A simple explanation is that I live in Atlanta and I have autoimmune issues and the heat makes me feel bad. When October hits, I feel like a new person! I feel like the world has come to life […]

Categories // Beauty, Soul Tags // #folkpiano, #improv, #music, #piano, #summer, #sunshine

My Advent CD

11.27.2017 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 2 Comments

Properly celebrating Advent can be tough in a society that typically starts Christmasing around Thanksgiving and promptly ceases merriment on December 26th. One thing that has always been particularly bothersome to me is the general lack of Advent music. I’ve got an Advent playlist I add to every year, but this year I wanted to do […]

Categories // Beauty Tags // #advent, #christmas, #folkpiano, #music, #piano

Why I Deleted Most of My Music Library

11.18.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

The first time a middle school friend burned me a mixed CD my whole world got a little bigger. Suddenly, music was endlessly accessible. I spent weekends foraging and sorting through my parents’ CD collection and making my own discoveries and online purchases. Sometime in high school, my library had reached around 10,000 songs. And […]

Categories // Beauty, Soul Tags // #gratitude, #livingsimply, #music

If Computers Replace Mozart

02.06.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

I recently watched a video that compared human composed music with computer composed music. I was sure that the computer music would be robotic and easily recognizable. I was wrong. The computers made symphonies just as the humans made symphonies and most people (including me) couldn’t tell the difference between the two. And this terrified […]

Categories // Beauty, Culture, Soul Tags // #beauty, #findingmeaning, #mozart, #music, #technology, #technologyproblems

About Me

I'm Elizabeth. I'm a wife, a mother to four little boys (and another little boy on the way,) a writer, and a lover and seeker of the beautiful, the true, and the good. I am a believer in idealism-- that even amidst the chaos and the confusion, the exhaustion and the sadness of life there is always joy to be found, hope to be clung to, and a better path to be taken. I write my thoughts on this blog. Links to my fiction books are at the bottom of the page.

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