On my cello I worked on improving vibrato (so, so hard for me!) and I learned several new techniques for playing pizzicato. I worked on several different bowing and learned one or two shorter pieces and one longer piece of music.
I learned a little bit about how to play a didgeridoo! There’s something quite meditative and peaceful about it for me. I got the didgeridoo to take to my preschool music classes which are starting up soon.
I am still discovering new hiking trails close to my house after living here for almost 10 years! This month I stumbled on a loop in the forest that I never knew existed, and it’s a beautiful little trail that makes for a perfect morning walk from my house, through the forest and back. It’s about to be absolutely stunning too, because it winds through a maple forest and the maple leaves are about ready to burst into color.
I learned quite a bit about Latvia and its history.
On the piano I worked on a short Bach fugue.
Amazon Prime Pantry! Oh my word! Why didn’t I start using this a decade ago???? Right now shopping in stores is just making me sad, and this month I realized that I could have all my toilet paper, kleenexes, dish soap, computer printer paper, sticky notes, scotch tape and many boxes of granola bars for at-school snacks delivered to my front door in a gigantic box. (Or two. Or three. If they don’t qualify for an Amazon Prime box, they can come in a regular box!). I’ll never turn back.
When I was a teenager and started listening primarily to Classical music, I was a purist. I liked music that was old and predictable. For years I mentally rolled my eyes at numerous choir conductors who always included a few modern and new classical pieces in their repertoire for concerts. The new classical music was always weird, always hard to sing or play. But, guess what? This month I realized that I actually have listened to “new” classical music so much in the past decade that I really enjoy it. I no longer have the urge to step aside and slink away from it. Bit by bit it became mysterious and intellectually stimulating to me.
Crocodiles live in Australia. But not alligators. I think I knew this once a long time ago, but I get it mixed up sometimes.
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