Among the many memories churning and surfacing this week, one came up of a most instructive incident. Dan and I went to a Baltimore Symphony concert which opened with Grofé’s Grand Canyon Suite. Music student that I was at the time, I spent the first movement following the form, the instrumentation, the way the themes…
Hamlet’s BlackBerry
(This is a copy of a review posted on GoodReads.) It’s been a couple of months since I read this, but I think my impressions of it are intact. I picked it up after hearing an interview with the author and learning the topic was one which has been on my mind for years, how…
Traveling to Baltimore
October 24th would have been my 20th anniversary with my first partner, and I'm planning to make a sentimental journey and spend a day or two in Baltimore visiting our home and other places we shared together. If anyone from my Baltimore days will be around then and would like to get together, let me…
Coincidence
An excerpt from today’s diary entries: I went to the G2H2 party last night at Gordon’s amazing house, all vaulted ceilings, fireplaces, and massive exposed beams, like a National Park lodge. He and his partner ran it as a B&B for 15 years before getting tired of all the work it entailed. It was a…
Fast finished
Summary I broke my fast four days ago, so I’m getting some perspective on the fast itself and the immediate aftermath. It was a far more arduous experience than I expected for reasons I never expected. I thought I would be hungry during it, but I never was, and never craved solid food. Instead, I…
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