1, On the weekends now, when I can, I have two appointment radio listening times, both on Spokane Public Radio's classical music station.
On Saturday at noon, the station airs a program called "Concert of the Week" featuring a recorded version of a local classical performance from the previous week.
Today, the featured concert was the symphony performance I attended a week ago at the Fox Theater.
Listening to it today moved me again. I enjoyed taking all of the music more deeply into myself.
I also appreciated the power of having heard the concert live, in person.
The music itself resonated in the Fox Theater powerfully, at times making me feel like I was in a cathedral. That particular experience couldn't, nor would I expect it to, be duplicated in our living room with the music coming over mediocre speakers.
The other appointment listening for me comes on at 10:00 Sunday morning. It's Leonard Oakland's two hour program called. "Morning Classical with Leonard Oakland".
I was a student of Leonard's at Whitworth and during the two years I taught full time at Whitworth (nearly forty-four years ago) he was the chair of the English Dept and an important mentor to me.
We were also friends.
So, yes, I thoroughly enjoy Leonard's choices of music and enjoy his poetry moment.
I also enjoy hearing his voice, experiencing his mind at work again, and having the double pleasure of enjoying him in the moment and being transported to my days in his company at Whitworth decades ago.
2. I lost interest in football about ten years ago or so. I enjoy making an ah what the heck wager on the Super Bowl like I did on Wednesday, but each year I no longer plan on watching the game.
But, Carol is in charge of Super Bowl Sunday's family dinner and she decided to assign us all Super Bowl snack food to bring and we'll have the game on with the option of watching it or not while we nosh away.
She assigned me to bring chicken wings and a Greek dip, so I spent some time today making sure I have party wings on hand (I do) and then filling out an order at Walmart to include items I need to make the dip.
It will be an easy food prep day tomorrow and I look forward to enjoying our food and seeing how I respond to being in the presence of a football game again. It's been quite a while!
3. When I was checking out our party wing supply in the basement freezer, I looked at quarts of turkey stock/broth Debbie had made and decided I would make a soup with one of the quarts tonight.
I decided that the broth would be the only meat in the soup and that I'd like the vegetables to be in larger chunks than I usually fix.
So, I thawed the turkey broth. I cooked chopped white onion and celery together and then added sliced mushrooms and before long I added the broth/stock, chopped russet potatoes, and pretty good sized chunks of carrots.
I salt and peppered the soup, let it cook until the vegetables were tender, ladled myself a bowl, and decided I'd like the soy goodness of Bragg's Liquid Aminos as another seasoning.
That worked.
The soup worked.
It warmed me as I live with a low grade cold.
I've been eating a lot of soup lately and it's definitely feeding my body and my soul.
That works, too.
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