Learned in November
- After reading The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry, I had all sorts of questions about the Medieval Inquisition (different from the Spanish Inquisition) that inspired me to do some additional reading and learn numerous fascinating things about this time in history. The Passion of Dolssa was an excellent read, and I recommend it.
- At our youth orchestra concert this month I learned that our youth orchestra program is actually the third oldest youth orchestra in the country. Students in our city have been playing together and learning to perform amazing (and difficult) music for ninety years! I’m lucky to live in a community that has such a tradition of supporting the arts.
- At the piano I learned another tricky accompaniment for The Banana’s violin. Learning all these accompaniment seems to keep me so busy I hardly have time to practice anything else these days. I’m still working on YaYa’s crazy Hindemith piece as well (and making progress that is hardly measurable).
- I learned several small pieces and one big piece on the cello (Vivaldi’s Double Concerto) as well as several three octave scales.
- I was reminded of the joy of wearing brand new wool socks when I opened a pair of fancy wool socks that I had been saving since May to brighten up a very bleak and chilly November Day. My outlook improved instantly.
- Over the past few months I’ve been trying to delete all of the emails I have read but don’t need to keep from my inbox in a systematic way, and it is working well for me. At the beginning of each month I delete all the emails from two months ago (for example, in November, I deleted emails from September). I no longer have nine thousand needless emails in my inbox, and after two months have passed, I can usually tell which emails are important to file and keep, so I haven’t thrown anything that I need in the trash.
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