What Are You Proud Of?

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What’s something you’re proud of but rarely or never have an opportunity to talk about?
 
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Well come on then guys - lay some knowledge on me! Now’s your moment to shine!
 
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I'm proud of my wide ranging classical piano repertoire:
Bach, partitas and inventions
Beethoven, several sonatas
Schumann, several longer works
Chopin, All of the Nocturnes and all 4 Ballades. Most of the Preludes. Most of the Etudes.
Prokovief, a couple of sonatas
Messaien, Preludes
Scriabin, several Etudes
Shostakovich, sadly only one sonata, but still...
William Bolcom, most of his Rags

There are still so many pieces and composers I want to explore, and some that seem beyond my grasp like Charles Ives, Ligeti, etc.

And then there's jazz: I only want the impossible, to play Thelonious Monk!
 
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How about having helped break up an International fraud that was causing possibly hundreds. poss more deaths, and making many millions for the corrupt sellers and buyers.

I kicked off a campaign to track the fraudsters down, which was then joined by serious media and ended with 5 convictions.

Not bad though I def do not claim all the credit by any means!! Just something did in spare time and took 5 years start to finish.

May not be an angel, but feel have to try to do a few good things along the way.
 
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I'm proud of my wide ranging classical piano repertoire:
Bach, partitas and inventions
Beethoven, several sonatas
Schumann, several longer works
Chopin, All of the Nocturnes and all 4 Ballades. Most of the Preludes. Most of the Etudes.
Prokovief, a couple of sonatas
Messaien, Preludes
Scriabin, several Etudes
Shostakovich, sadly only one sonata, but still...
William Bolcom, most of his Rags

There are still so many pieces and composers I want to explore, and some that seem beyond my grasp like Charles Ives, Ligeti, etc.

And then there's jazz: I only want the impossible, to play Thelonious Monk!
I'm also proud of the over 80 custom homes I have built during my career. Many of them, I designed in whole or in part. All have families that I know (or knew when built) and creating that order and beauty for people to live in makes me happy and proud.
 

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going to lane 3 etc etc and finding this thread
no, tbh
proud of my Sister
showing her childrens, children as well
how to make the various types of Chinese cakes/buns, our father taught her 60 years ago
taste/look,exactly the same mmmmm
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I'm also proud of the over 80 custom homes I have built during my career. Many of them, I designed in whole or in part. All have families that I know (or knew when built) and creating that order and beauty for people to live in makes me happy and proud.


ironically
the cake making as described was for my sisters daughters 25th birthday
she is the same as you have mentioned
I'm proud of my wide ranging classical piano repertoire: