Before A Storm
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Walking North from home, I witnessed a stupendous lightning strike in the distance uptown that split into three branches. It took my breath away. Then thunder and the downpour. I ducked into the health food store and got some items, arrived back home soaked, grateful to have a home to return to.
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Television
Channel 13 is re-broadcasting Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, which aired on Great Performances at the Met, September 2012.
Television
Channel 13 is re-broadcasting Robert Lepage’s acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, which aired on Great Performances at the Met, September 2012.
The operas – Das Rheingold, Die Walkűre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung — will be preceded on Monday, September 10 at 9 p.m. by the airing of award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke’s documentary Wagner’s Dream,which chronicles the backstage story of the creation of this ambitious new staging.
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And yet, no matter how beautiful the music or fantastical the setting, I never think of Wagner that I don't think of Hitler. I am scarred forever by history both personal and cultural. Many are.
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Saturday
Feeling Fragile
St. Pats day again in Manhattan.
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Saturday
Feeling Fragile
St. Pats day again in Manhattan.
With parades and careening bar-babies to
avoid. I had some outside errands and was quick about them, careful
not to wear orange or green, I skillfully braided my way around revelers decked and drunk before noon.
Decades ago, I mounted this haunting tune on a loop and played it all hours, day and night for months through joys and tears, steeped in conflict. I call it karma that I wasn't evicted, or maybe it was a miracle
https://youtu.be/Iw5Gi6U4MQ0
Sweet Sunday
3.17.2019
A sacrificial bird is roasting in the oven. Sun is pouring through the dust of decades.
I have rescheduled the visit to my oldest friends in Massachusetts for the fourth time. I may be over the major flu-cold-relapse, but, I'm feeling fragile and hesitant to travel. I watch the weather and have now a reservation for the 16th of April, returning Easter evening.
That settled I headed to the Hudson River for Sunset.
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Favorite Film
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human.
https://youtu.be/-dT-BCVjKkA
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Decades ago, I mounted this haunting tune on a loop and played it all hours, day and night for months through joys and tears, steeped in conflict. I call it karma that I wasn't evicted, or maybe it was a miracle
https://youtu.be/Iw5Gi6U4MQ0
Sweet Sunday
3.17.2019
A sacrificial bird is roasting in the oven. Sun is pouring through the dust of decades.
I have rescheduled the visit to my oldest friends in Massachusetts for the fourth time. I may be over the major flu-cold-relapse, but, I'm feeling fragile and hesitant to travel. I watch the weather and have now a reservation for the 16th of April, returning Easter evening.
That settled I headed to the Hudson River for Sunset.
~*~
Favorite Film
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human.
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1 comment:
Thank you for the lovely music! I too would have played it non-stop. Beautiful photos, as always. I hope you will feel well enough to go to Massachusetts in the spring. It would be a shame to miss it.
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