In bo yesterday, the teacher focused on form, then let go of form to guide flow, having fun with the stick, then returned to the painstaking attention to form, then back to the more free-flowing movement again.

With my guitar, I want to just play, to let my fingers fly, but it sounds better if I remember to routinely return to practice as well, to the conscious attention to each note, the pressure to each string. Then I release that attention and play, then I return to address this fumbling chord, that dropped note, this break in the rhythm.