1. Beach Bum Bakery opened a small mobile shack on Bunker Avenue here in Kellogg in October of 2022. I'm not sure when I first shopped there, but I do know that the first baked good I purchased was a Sunshine Muffin. I love Morning Glory muffins and the Sunshine Muffin reminded me of the Morning Glory and that one muffin hooked me on Beach Bum's baked goods and I continue to be hooked today.
In fact, today when Rebekah texted out what goods she had available today, I saw I could purchase a Sunshine Muffin.
Around noon, I blasted uptown to the bakery and bought a muffin and one of my favorite cookies, the oatmeal raisin.
I had a latte in a travel mug in the car and blissed out on my way down to Yoke's as I ate half the muffin and sipped on the latte.
2. On my way to Yoke's, I stopped off at the food pantry at the Kellogg Elks to see what the pantry had in it and what I might add.
At Yoke's I bought items like beef stew, chili, tuna fish, and other food products and bought some toothbrushes to go with the pack of tubes of toothpaste I brought from home.
I had intended to donate pet food and forgot to buy some at Yoke's. I'll remedy that sometime early this coming week.
3. I had a terrific listening day today. When I drove out to Walmart to pick up a curbside order, I listened to an album of Chopin's piano etudes. I continued listening to these jewels later in the morning when I went uptown and to Yoke's.
Back home, I took out the book, A Year of Wonder, and listened to the pieces the author, Clemency Burton-Hill had chosen for this weekend, January 3rd and 4th.
The medieval Benedictine nun and abbess, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), famous as a philosopher, mystic, prophet, medical expert/botanist, poet, and composer of music composed the January 3rd selection. The four minutes of listening to the Kronos Quartet play her O virtus sapientine transported me to a place removed from the disorder and bewilderment of this world. I experienced this music as calming and sacred.
The January 4th selection came from Beethoven. The Tokyo Quartet played the fifth movement of his String Quartet No. 13. It was beautiful in a whole different way in its complexity and its explorations of the nature of human life. By the time Beethoven composed this piece, he was completely deaf and so we are hearing music played that he never heard, except as he could hear it in his mind as he wrote it. It explores the fragility and deep feeling that is central to being human.
This day of varied pleasures began to wind down as I listened to another chapter and a half of Lonesome Dove and, to repeat myself, I am experiencing the music making and the virtuosity of Larry McMurtry as a novelist much more immediately and vividly as I listen to Will Patton read the book to me than when I was reading it to myself earlier in 2025.
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