UPDATE: August 21, 2013: This important link forwarded by John B, received from “my niece, an attorney in Albuquerque. She once worked for the MN Orch Youth Symphony and is a cello player from St. Olaf.” August 24, 2013: In the 23rd Star Tribune an article appeared on page B3 of the Metro Section giving […]
UPDATE, August 20, 2013 9:45 p.m. A short while ago we drove east from Minneapolis, driving into the Full Moon rising. The sky was clear and the view was spectacular. Pity that I only had my small camera, with which I took this snapshot. The moon was, for me at least, a positive harbinger of […]
UPDATE August 19, 2013: here IMPORTANT NOTE RE TUESDAY, AUGUST 20: click HERE UPDATE: August 18, 2013: In the middle of this commentary are some pertinent thoughts about what is happening at the Minnesota Orchestra. Note the four paragraphs which start with the para “While no one has…” and end with “Do rank and file […]
COMMENTS after NOTE 2 Yesterday, I spent a lot of time doing an unpleasant task. A project required going into a family room wall, which necessitated repainting of a small portion of the wall by our bookshelves, and I decided to repaint the entire wall behind the books. Of course, this required taking out all […]
Note: Peter Barus is a long-time and great friend (and writer) who writes occasionally from rural New Hampshire. His personal website is here. Once before Peter has posted at this blog. You can find the post here. Peter Barus: Exercise won’t defeat the endocrine system… This is a book review, and a heads-up about our […]
Post #756, here, on Garry Davis, directly relates to the following. The Facebook album, simply entitled “Frank K. and friends”, dates from the summer of 2006, and February, 2008, in the Minneapolis-St. Paul MN area. It consists of 44 photos I took at the time. Editors Note: In the summer of 2006 I was privileged […]
Please see special note at the end of this post. We are a society that preaches Peace and reveres War. Evidence of this is around us everywhere, every day. In recent days I had two experiences which helped greatly to put this into dissonance into sharper focus, and provide an opportunity for reflection. If you […]
My wife’s many-years-long friend, also named Cathy, passed away last week. A few hours ago we attended her funeral, a small quiet occasion in the chapel of a St. Paul Church where her parents – both still alive and in attendance last night – became engaged to be married 70 years ago. Cathy was, the […]
This post is intended as an invitation to learn and to act. Yesterday, Congress recessed for approximately six weeks to go “home” to wherever. Each of it’s 435 members represents approximately 700,000 people living somewhere in the United States. We’re one of the few congressional districts which has, as permanent residents, two congresspeople: the former […]
This week I upgraded my anti-virus program to include more bells and whistles, including asking it to check up my back-up file – the separate “file cabinet” that keeps a digital “copy” of whatever comes into, or is generated by, my computer. I had no idea what to expect. After two days, at about 4 […]