1. Boots on the ground! Well New Balance shoes on the snow! Enough snow fell overnight that I sprang into action and cleared the sidewalks at our house and at Christy's.
2. I had a very good talk with Debbie this afternoon, and a little bit with Eloise. It was most enjoyable hearing how well the Thanksgiving dinner went and the air frying the dry brined turkey resulted in a masterpiece and a dinner that featured superb food. I learned that everyone who came in from out of town returned safely. Debbie is helping Jack with his French studies. John knocked out some house projects and he put new strings on Olivia's guitar.
3. I have Classical Music streaming many hours during the day. My music listening life is focused on Classical Music in a way it hasn't been since back in the mid-1990s. I had season tickets to hear the Mozart Players. I was a member of the Columbia House Classical Music Club and purchased many CDs through them and at Bradford's Stereo in downtown Eugene. That shop had a small, high quality selection of classical CDs.
It's thrilling for me now, in 2025, thirty years later, when one of the programs I'm listening to on Symphony Hall or on KUOL plays one of my favorite compositions from my 1990s classical music heyday.
This evening, out of the blue (for me at least) Peter Van de Graaf played Adagio in G minor popularly attributed to Tomaso Albinoni.
I'm not really sure what hearing this masterpiece took me back to. When I grew flowers? Swimming at the YMCA? Listening to KWAX in the car? That CD I had that was a collection of movements all in Adagio? Movies at the Bijou? Dad dying in 1996?
I can't pinpoint anything exactly, only the jolt I felt as this Adagio reached its thrilling climax, a climax I hadn't heard, it seemed, in ages, but has retained its power to stop everything around me when I hear it.
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