Lynn posts a very nice and comprehensive resource for anyone starting out on an auto-didactical exploration of classical music. She includes a list of good resources and some advice for dealing with fervent advice from others: We serious classical music lovers are a bunch of fanatics; we’re lunatics; we’re scary. We can’t help it; the music we love is like a religion with us and we defend it and argue about it amoung ourselves with all the fervor of religious fundamentalists. When we discover a potential convert our worst fear is that he will get away – that, like most …
Michael Herman catches me on the Bowen Island Ferry Cam and posts a photo of me waving at him. I’m the guy with the red circle around him. I was on the phone with Michael at the time. This is me blogging from Bowen Island about my friend in Chicago blogging a webcam image of me on Bowen Island. I’m going to go and sit down now. Feeling a little dizzy here.
Michael Herman blogs a great late spring walk around Chicago. I love this kind of stuff: hot sand. slowing down. sun warming inner soles. yawning and saying aaahhhh…. as i wander the nearly empty beach, twenty yards and half a world away from the bike path. solitary lifeguard glides by in what looks like walking meditation. my path veers briefly into COLD lake. some shiny little fish are flipping flopping and disappearing into seagulls that fly away heavily without remorse. sun cuts through clouds and yawning tantorum lifts brain as offering. head seems to clear, spine eases and straightens, heart …