Working on this past week:

  • Practicing: upcoming concert music; Bach 6 Allemande (1st half) (using the lovely Henle / Reiner Ginzel edition)
  • Listening: Spotify “Blues & Roots Rock” playlist: https://spotify.link/QrAd06zMzDb (I first got there via the Amythyst Kiah Artist page: https://spotify.link/NNVbkUIMzDb)
  • Writing/recording: recording session prep for a jazz piano trio (Summer Nights…)

So important: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/9/22/jann-wenner-pay-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain

Kind of remembered recently that tea is, uh, amazing! if I treat it as seriously as I usually treat coffee around here. So we got a little teapot from Daiso and a bunch of new loose-leaf green, black, and oolong. It’s been a nice journey and this is helpful: https://artofeating.com/brewing-darjeeling-tea/

Profound: https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/05/17/yes-to-life-in-spite-of-everything-viktor-frankl/

Want it (ASMAC just ran a fabulous program on this with Joe Johnston and Chris Siddall and a bunch of other stars): https://www.chrissiddallmusic.com/store/p105/The_Rocketeer_In_Full_Score.html

This seems nuts: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220810-derinkuyu-turkeys-underground-city-of-20000-people