Even preceding retirement 13 years ago, I wondered about how it would be out in “Elder-land”. I wrote about this recently. Just last night, at a meeting where the age range was from (I’d guess) early 30s to mid 80s we talked about the huge dilemma these days of elder to younger communications. We communicate […]
UPDATES will be included as received at the end of this post. One particularly interesting link about Orchestra finances has already been added. Take a look within Molly’s comment. There are other responses at the Twin Cities Daily Planet. You can read them here. Here is a very interesting blog site directly related to the […]
Today I visited two school events, one in Minneapolis, one in South St. Paul. One planned, one last minute. The events caused me to go into my memento box and pull out a little memory book from back in the 1950s. The book seems to be from my Junior year in high school (Antelope Consolidated, […]
Note comments as received which are included at the end of this post, and as Responses. Prior Post: here Musicians website here. Tonight, June 1, was supposed to be our last concert for the 2012-13 season of the Minnesota Orchestra (MO). Yesterday, May 31, I went down to view the under-construction area at Orchestra Hall, […]
NOTE to regular readers at this space: there are some interesting responses at the end of the post on 42, here. Last Sunday was the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity in the Catholic Church. I’m lifelong Catholic, and as usual I was at Mass at Basilica last Sunday. (For those interested, the readings were: […]
May 20 a massive tornado devastated Moore OK. Two elementary schools were in the path of the tornado, and in the wake of the storm the heroism of school employees in shielding their children was deservedly high-lited. The same thing occurred in the wake of the horrific Newtown CT carnage in December, 2012. There, too, […]
“I decided to ask about the flag. The first person, a receptionist answering the phone, had no idea why the flag was there; the person to which I was first referred had no idea either. The third person I talked to said the flag had been there for years, and had been put up in […]
Yesterday we went to the film “42“, based on the true story of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the color-line in major league baseball in 1947. Eighth grade grandson, Ryan, who enjoys baseball went along, and approved. We’d highly recommend the film to anyone. Twin Cities showtimes are readily accessible here. If not from this area, simply […]
I wrote before the speech yesterday. That story is accessible here. The video and transcript of President Obama’s speech are both now accessible here. In my opinion, his speech, yesterday, was of far more than normal importance, and how the body politic deals with the abundant messages, long term, is of great importance to our […]
UPDATE 4 p.m. CDT: Here are the printed remarks given by President Obama today. Apparently there was no live video. * On occasion – this is one of those occasions – I deliberately do a post before some kind of major action which can be anticipated. This morning, perhaps even as I write (9:40 a.m. […]