Laura Ritchie 🌸

eternal optimist, dreamer, friend, & lover of life.
I believe in people. I have time for people who connect.
I am a cellist, performer, teacher, psychologist and entrepreneur Professor of Learning & Teaching by day.
Read my book! #YesICan https://www.amazon.com/dp/1999794346/ or watch my TEDx talk on the topic https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_ritchie_yes_i_can_use_the_positive_power_of_self_efficacy
my website toots my blogposts via this account @laura

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2024-08-24 14:26:46

my sourdough starter died !
Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
(it lasted nearly 2 years though, and that's very good for me !)
I guess I'll just have to bake a fruit tart instead of bread ! 😁

2024-08-07 09:51:02

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@npub1ahr…m294 Hope you got the replacement tent!!!! These adventures are quite lovely!

2024-08-04 21:57:34

and on the back of the busy day - (concert this evening) I made lunch for 5 visiting relatives (& my own family) today - but couldn't eat much of it because I was wound up about the performance. Good news is now I've come home to the most epic homemade mean (....true meaning of 'here's one I made earlier!')
including the last bits of this fruit tart! I was glad there was some left over !!
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2024-07-30 06:33:43

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@npub1ahr…m294 That is quite amazing progress !!! WOW! (-and hopefully you weren't hurt when the part broke)

2024-07-22 20:57:41

Today I rearchitected my schema. Yay me!
...small (big!) victory!

2024-07-22 20:43:41

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@npub1ahr…m294 excellent caption! I thought you look ready to take on the bike-packing trail ahead. Good luck ! Hope it's full of good adventures!

2024-07-16 15:10:34

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@npub1ahr…m294 Agree wholeheartedly. He was a super human.

2024-07-16 14:37:50

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@npub1ahr…m294 very cool !

2024-06-30 14:31:41

there's a fluffy bunny living in my backyard. a lovely new guest to keep the hedgehogs company!

2024-06-29 08:46:14

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@npub1ahr…m294 this is just so cool. It's quite amazing how much of the world we can see with the power of our own two feet.

2024-06-19 21:27:47

someone offered me a hive of bees for the garden - and they said they would be willing (and able!) to come do all the 'beekeeper' things on a weekly basis. They just need a garden for an extra colony.
I'm quite excited about this possibility!

2024-06-18 19:08:58

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@npub1ahr…m294 looks great! and that's the best sort of souvenir - one that's useful!

2024-06-06 11:23:32

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@npub1ahr…m294 You are going to get to see the D-Day celebrations! I am a bit sad to miss them - I fly out in an hour...

2024-06-03 13:55:19

I was very worried about a thing today, and the sense of relief is like the tide washing over me. I didn't anticipate relief being exhausting. Maybe I can carve time for a very short nap... between things...

2024-05-31 08:58:59

@npub1ahr…m294 one of my students just cited you in their essay ! (exam essay - they were talking about connectivism) :)

2024-05-28 05:27:39

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@npub1ahr…m294 yes - starting is definitely a good thing. WAY more than half of the battle !
and the day - I've decided today will be a good one - best foot forward 🙂

2024-05-27 21:48:07

Today I learned tow new pages of a piece.
I'm learning the rest of the Cassado Solo Suite. I played the first movement, and over the past two days I got down the notes of the second movement. Today I added the first two pages of movement three.
(saying this because it's been a less than great day otherwise and I want to end it on a good note!)

2024-05-27 07:07:56

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@npub1ahr…m294 trains are fun! Good luck with the talk !!

2024-05-21 20:31:59

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@npub18p2…6j6h thank you ! :)

2024-05-18 06:07:24

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@npub1f6s…y8ra glow in the dark is so cool ! Thanks for the detail in the alt text!!

2024-05-08 04:37:41

I would very much like to see more pleasant things in my feed. Random nice birds and nature and acts of kindness and good things.
I seem swamped with war and politics, and I come here to find joy and connection with kindred spirits - like, hey, I would do that good thing too...
Suggestions of who to follow?
Here's a random nice thing - the sunset from last night where I live.
(ok to boost for suggestions!)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/403/606/431/341/963/original/d1a6fc47337c11b3.jpeg

2024-05-04 08:33:28

well I woke up at 6am... to a beautiful day! -the beautiful day makes me not mind the 6am so much.

2024-04-24 18:50:46

Starting the long journey back…. Passing through Liciester now… 4 trains in total and I’ll walk in the house just before midnight.
I’m glad I came, even carrying the cello and a suitcase full of knitting.
My presentations and performance were in the ‘graveyard’ slot and the audience was small, but they were fantastic and after the chair’s question for me was why was I not the keynote? - I told her that was a good question!

2024-04-11 16:26:45

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@npub1ahr…m294 these are crazy good!

2024-04-01 18:47:03

Tomorrow I am going to America. I'm taking my cello - under the plane (yes, say a prayer) - and I'm both excited and nervous.
Time to get organised !

2024-03-28 06:39:23

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@npub1lyr…k7hs I would love to come visit.

2024-03-19 21:32:48

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@npub1ahr…m294 progress is good

2024-03-18 17:56:59

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@npub1mpw…4h3u what part of the world was this? (to add to my bucket list!!!)

2024-03-18 17:50:18

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@npub1mpw…4h3u that is stunning !!!

2024-03-18 17:49:39

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@npub1ahr…m294 oh dear! They will help I'm sure - if you ask! Hope it's sorted quickly.

2024-03-16 20:02:36

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@npub1xzm…eykm you're changing the world in no small way !
Congratulations and happy Masto-versary!

2024-03-15 20:58:22

I'm in a very excting event in a couple of weeks in LA. If you happen to be in the area and are interested in the intersection of design and music, this would be well worth your Saturday morning (it's half sold out already) https://tedx.ucla.edu/ #losangeles #livemusic #lecture #ucla

2024-03-13 13:49:51

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@npub1ahr…m294 yikes !!! hope you were ok and it didn't hurt your leg!
Yay for the taxi, but how frustrating overall...

2024-03-12 23:10:22

I made this !
I made a little game where you get to write a tune and hear me play it on my cello - and it works! Really it's a static web page that has interactive elements. For anyone who does web development it is very basic, but you know, I made it. I am not a coder by training, but sure I typed code before... (*cough*) Ok, in 1983, and th
https://www.lauraritchie.com/2024/03/12/i-made-this/
#LifeLearning #ResonanceProject #cymatics #ChatGPT #Coding #Game #kindness #Resonance #Webpage

2024-03-12 18:38:41

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@npub1ahr…m294 you have some big thoughts going on in there! I wonder what your next turn will be...

2024-03-10 18:52:38

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@npub1lyr…k7hs Congratulations ! I hope you can look on this and feel truly pleased!

2024-03-04 20:40:41

made the most of the day before the rain (and wind) rolled in again... Here are some lovely sunset photos from last night, just to remind me the sun is up there somewhere! #sunset #photography #seaside #peaceful
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2024-02-29 15:02:31

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@npub1ahr…m294 clouds and so much rain here - no thunder, just persistent sogginess. I hope we don't sink. (I'm only slightly kidding)

2024-02-27 10:38:49

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@npub1ahr…m294 wow!

2024-02-18 22:58:33

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@npub1ahr…m294 yes indeed. That. Lots of that.

2024-02-18 07:40:32

it has rained on the window for over 12 hours and somehow the gloom outside has not stopped me waking up feeling happy. This is a good sign.

2024-02-14 23:32:48

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@npub1ahr…m294 would we stop too? stop or cease?

2024-02-13 23:01:13

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@npub1ahr…m294 with a big appetite!

2024-01-24 07:42:27

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@npub1437…ranm hang in there. January is a tough month at the best of times. Here's to brighter days.

2024-01-20 20:45:50

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@npub1lyr…k7hs mega double wow ! That is beyond epic !!!! (can I come visit please!) :)

2024-01-20 20:44:54

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@npub1ahr…m294 Charlemagne?

2024-01-13 04:12:10

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@npub1ahr…m294 that is lovely!

2023-12-16 12:29:23

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@npub12ty…vnqc @npub120z…33r2 seriously, you've hung in there through lots of rubbish and the normal rubbish of testing and glitches and development and have really created something good. You got this.

2023-12-16 12:08:42

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@npub12ty…vnqc @npub120z…33r2 You are a phoenix. and you are certainly capable of flying to the top of mountains.

2023-12-14 09:44:40

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@npub1ahr…m294 Ask for English labels!! :) Pretty fun stuff!!!

2023-12-14 07:37:25

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@npub1437…ranm personal equilibrium. :) that and the other stuff... end of semester here so student essays and still pushing my own project with the cello (.https://resonance.lauraritchie.com/ ) and I have a big data set from a psychology experiment just *waiting* for me to work on it - but they are all so different and require my mind to be in SUCH different places. And last night I was conducting an orchestra...
I need a nap!

2023-12-14 07:33:36

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@npub1437…ranm seconded! for me too! ...just a few more days... !

2023-12-12 14:00:20

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@npub1ahr…m294 now this is something I can say HOORAY to ! I went to their concerts every year with my parents (mother's doing really) and LOVED them. All the way from the late 70s until into the 1990s
Very good memories! (and great music !)

2023-12-02 07:40:27

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@npub1xzm…eykm super cute!

2023-12-01 10:30:23

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@npub1ahr…m294 oh dear. I'm sorry.

2023-11-11 18:27:26

Tonight I'm going to a birthday party and that is potentially very exciting! It's a dancing party and I love to dance ... I am also incredibly inhibited in public sometimes... we'll see how it goes! I'll at least be purple and sparkly and that's a good start!

2023-11-06 08:20:47

A good thing ...brightened my Monday morning.
After dropping my son at school, I stopped in the pull-in place on the side of the road just to check... and I was in luck ! There was one box of eggs and I had the £1.50 to put in the honesty tin. My morning (and breakfast!) is complete.
#goodmorning
#breakfast #smallstories
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2023-11-02 22:14:12

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@npub1ahr…m294 oh no! hope the recovery/after time is not painful. I've realised having anything 'done' to you is quite draining. I had a broken tooth fixed yesterday and I seriously needed to lie down and just pause afterward. I think my body reminded me - hey, you actually are human...
sending good thoughts! (and I hope your cats are sympathetic company for you!)

2023-10-29 05:00:45

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@npub1xzm…eykm beautiful - the sentiment and the photo. Keep loving doing things like that (that make her and you feel special) and you'll have a long time of happiness ahead

2023-10-28 17:57:46

I visited the sweetest cutie this #caturday Meet Sebastian who does high-5s!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/313/931/713/138/917/original/fd5db6506279b805.mp4

2023-10-27 14:20:57

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@npub1ahr…m294 the bits I've seen have looked amazing !
here's to soaking in the sunshine - and a good flight home!

2023-10-23 18:21:45

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@npub1ahr…m294 it has been fantastic !!!

2023-10-22 20:45:12

I've been in Greece for the past 4 days, and I have done, seen, and experienced so much. Tomorrow I'm recording the new musical work I premiered last Friday. Last day tomorrow - It seems like I've been here at least two weeks !
And I've spent time with a very good friend, which has been an incredible pleasure and privilige.

2023-10-09 06:05:34

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@npub1ahr…m294 autumn is red season as much as golden - but we don't need as much red for it to have an impact, but the impact it has is great. I love red.

2023-09-30 11:42:40

Today there’s great excitement as it’s the semi-annual jumble sale at the local scout’s hut…. It’s a very British thing… hard to explain if you’re not used to it! There are about 200 people patiently waiting in a queue for it to open in 20 minutes!

2023-09-19 21:16:07

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@npub1ahr…m294 it's the basis of this app thing I've made. -and it's funny, on our website we don't even have google analytics running to count views! not tracking a single thing.

2023-09-19 21:14:28

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@npub1ahr…m294 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09713336231178366?casa_token=6SpcqxQjVQgAAAAA%3Az2OfM3gZsro_Y_AgAV4JZStWMQ9dK0ecKZRr1U4mn8-qP5j_HLWzG8wAc17VbQPcnmdd7TagtVU&journalCode=pdsa and https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=120212

2023-09-19 21:09:39

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@npub1ahr…m294 One thing that might be missing (not that you want more sections!) is the idea of analytics as inherently transforming 'people' into numbers - categorizing and re-forming individuals into something they are not or did not say they were. Where's the idiographic representation and how does the ethical person rationalize the idea of purposefully dissolving the individual? (That thought stems from the stuff I've been developing/working on to preserve and showcase the individual)

2023-09-19 21:06:29

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@npub1ahr…m294 gosh, this is more of an extended chapter or even thesis than an article! Lots to think about (for the reader) and to discuss.
I'll read more carefully and put thoughts together if useful. :)

2023-09-17 04:11:54

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@npub1ahr…m294 love what looks like whiskers in the foreground - moves it from a portrait to an image holding playful anticipation

2023-09-11 17:24:25

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@npub1ahr…m294 oh I am sorry for you both. She's a lucky cat to have had you as parents/owners.

2023-09-10 11:35:19

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@npub1ahr…m294 you both look super happy!

2023-09-08 16:57:19

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@npub1ahr…m294 oh dear. good luck !!! fingers crossed for you

2023-09-08 16:28:27

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@npub1ahr…m294 oh no... hope you got home

2023-09-06 20:30:57

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@npub1ahr…m294 sending lots of good wishes!

2023-09-05 19:57:12

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@npub1ahr…m294 ah, those are important!
looks like it has to go on the car! 😎

2023-09-05 19:54:29

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@npub1ahr…m294 There's always the other side (not the inside though!) Like back in the day when one made book covers out of brown paper bags for school books.... and then covered ALL the available space with doodles/stickers...

2023-08-27 22:25:05

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@npub1ahr…m294 I've never seen a cat spontaneously turn into a square without being in a 'vessel' of some sort! I thought the cat was under a square sofa cushion!

2023-08-18 22:35:17

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@npub1ahr…m294 good grief! You've turned into a mega-mountain-man! (I mean that as a compliment not in any negative way - just clarifying as in type it's hard to convey inflection) That's a fantastic tour you've done ! wow.

2023-08-07 05:51:58

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@npub1437…ranm hope your day is better

2023-08-07 05:51:47

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@npub1437…ranm I watched it come and go from the M25 (big highway in UK) it was odd to say the least. My day has been so strange.

2023-07-19 07:39:28

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@npub1437…ranm and I can report not tending to it AT ALL and it grows like a weed - everywhere ! in raspberries, on trellis, in the roses...

2023-07-19 07:36:11

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@npub1437…ranm I read that as humus like squished chick peas.... (maybe I can't spell!) but honeysuckle seems to grow just fine and quite prolifically here - in bog standard dirt soil. No humus added!

2023-07-19 07:34:06

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@npub1437…ranm Just checked, I am ! (whew!)

2023-07-18 11:55:39

Progress on my startup (I'm president - yay!) A 27 second product video. The product is an online tool that gives an idiographic portrait of individuals (from their perspective) that helps a uni to do holistic advising from the moment they meet a sutdent, & helps students see how they fit (at university), improving retention
It's a 'sizzle reel', a hook (not a full product walthrough) Have a look! & boost to uni ppl who might be interested! https://www.dropbox.com/s/f96kchs3h96redz/SeeDegree%20ProductVideo1080.mp4?dl=0 #highereducation #startup

2023-07-18 11:07:11

My Resonance cello project just got next level mega cool. Today I received the KNIT samples. There was a knock at the door. I actually jumped up and shouted OH YAY! And the postman handed me a parcel, with a smile, saying’special delivery for you today!’ And I nearly burst when I opened it. I NEARLY BURST!!!!! ****this is my music****
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2023-07-14 15:53:00

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@npub1ahr…m294 I have to say after hearing about the privacy policy that accesses all sorts of other things I haven't even considered looking

2023-07-13 11:50:18

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@npub1ahr…m294 that looks fantastic!

2023-07-07 12:52:14

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@npub1ahr…m294 this is good news!

2023-07-01 19:41:06

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@npub1ahr…m294 That is awesome !! Happy Canada Day!

2023-07-01 18:12:01

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@npub1ahr…m294 that's a toally good point !!! per hour .. hmmm... and feet are something to take care of. I'm still nursing a toe tendon injury from April... ! Silly body doesn't quite heal like when I was 12. !

2023-07-01 17:40:32

Running update...
I figured out I ran over 600 miles on teh shoes I got in early December, and so I've bought some more shoes... but they are SO expensive and I'm never sure about the feel of different brands or the 'new' models that I've bought shoes that were second hand from people who wore them for a day or a few days.
How do you buy running shoes without breaking the bank???
#running #shoes #advice

2023-06-30 15:30:14

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@npub1ahr…m294 woo hoo!

2023-06-26 15:49:40

Today I did work, but also I rested. Big time, proper resting.
and that's a really good thing.
Yay!

2023-06-21 11:30:24

I came home to covid in the house (not me) and now we're all shut in separate rooms (thankfully with all the doors and windows open). It's going to be an odd week while the healthy work to stay healthy while hoping the sick recover quickly.

2023-06-19 20:44:29

I'm in Naples with my son, and we're having an adventure. Home again tomorrow, but one more half day here...
so far highlights include his buying black salt from Cyprus and I got fresh oregano. Happy cooks!