A nice couple of weekends! The day after seeing Barbiere at the Met, it was Easter Sunday. I don't celebrate Easter myself, and it took me a while to realize that other people do (adults, I mean) and take it quite seriously. Like, Charles would give me an Easter card each year. I was delighted, …
Month: April 2025
Figaro at the Seville Zoo
A week of comic opera, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Quick background for those who don't know: Beaumarchais was a French playwright in the 18th century who wrote a trilogy of plays about wily barber and manservant Figaro. Mozart turned the second of these, The Marriage of Figaro, into a masterpiece of an opera. …
Dichotomy
One of the big lessons I learned from the thing, picked up from grief counseling, is that it's OK to feel more than one emotion at the same time. Grief itself is a snarled ball of sadness, rage, relief, frustration, etc. and that's OK. And I bring this up because 2025 so far has been …
Florida Keys, Day 6: Heading Home
Hookay, vacation almost over. My flight wasn't for a while, I had plenty of time - in fact, if I checked out at checkout time, I'd have more than enough time to tank up the car and get to the airport. I'd vaguely thought about getting up early enough to take a swim - although …
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