Musicians tend to find each other. A casual scan of my friends list (both here and on Facebook) reveals a rather enlightening volume of full-time professional musicians, full-time teachers of music, part-time professionals, highly trained and skilled amateurs, untrained skilled amateurs, and that invaluable subset, the sensitive and astute non- ( Read more... )

The event yesterday was hard in all the ways anticipated--in some ways also unanticipated. But, there was a metric planet-load of good as well.

We saw old friends, including artisticphoenix, gwendolynbasing,hawkyns, liamstliam, Katherine, Emerson, eLeri, Pierre, and of course our hosts Mathgamain and Dresden. svan_1004 and emt_hawk made it out, as did the entire German Squire family. Morguhn's portrait, done by ( Read more... )

Duchezz is home safe from her trip to the Capitol District. All trained and empowered. Yay ( Read more... )

For those who are interested in the art of fence and knew and loved the Green and Gold one, I share with you this:

Blades and Blarney XII

This is being done with our blessing, and some details were arranged with and approved by us. We will be there. We hope to see many of you that day as well.

Allez!

Happy Birthday to anglesandlight .

She is in Georgia, which is far too far away. In these last 4 months I have missed her fiercely, for her brand of no-nonsense compassion, our shared sense of humor, and fun together in the kitchen.

Today is her day. Happy birthday sister waterbearer. I hope it's a wonderful day!

Thank you ( Read more... )

The day was feeling mostly normal. Then one of my rocks at work told me her husband has been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. He is on the medication, and it is having a positive effect. Still, it is a rotten thing to deal with ( Read more... )

Many thanks to hundmathr and jlbooth76 for coming over yesterday, moving heavy stuff, being good company, and just generally being great people.

Thanks to barondiego who guested in my 10 AM class to give my students some perspective from a West Texas point of view.

To the rest of my friends, ya'll are wonderful, too. If I haven't told you that recently it's not because I don't ( Read more... )

I won't be too hard on the boys, losing by 7 to the undefeated Titans.

Jane and I played three games of Scrabble. We split the first two--she beat me in the third by 2 points.

Got home and just missed a call from Richmond. :-(

Now football, food, and grading. Back to the salt mines tomorrow. Is it okay that I'd just really rather stay home?

I am thankful for my friends.
I am thankful for puppy kisses.
I am thankful for kitty snuggles.
I am thankful I have a job that challenges me.
I am thankful for my friends (it bears repeating).
I am thankful for the love that filled my life for 20 years.

One step at a time.