On the cello I learned to play my first two little pieces from the unaccompanied Bach Suites. Hooray! They aren’t polished by any means, but I did learn them!
I am learning to read tenor clef for my cello. The difficulty I’m having and my lack of fluency makes me greatly sympathize with my little students learning to read music for the first time. Tenor clef is messing with my brain, I”m telling you.
On the piano I learned a short piece by Brahms, and I started working on a longer, harder one that will probably take me a year at least to finish.
The Arrowhead Chorale is going to be performing Bach’s Mass in B minor in April, and I did some research to learn more about when and why Bach wrote his only mass. It is amazing, beautiful music with so many intricate genius details. I am excited to sing it.
The disinfecting properties of swimming pool water can be a blessed intervention when boys going through a gigantic growth spurt swim regularly several times per week.
Kumquats are in season, and I am loving their enormous burst of taste again this year. It turns out they are a great source of fiber since you eat the peel along with all the fleshy interior and juice. (The peel is actually super sweet, so after this tremendous burst of sour juice, you start chewing and have a mouthful of wonder).
When I’m the only one home alone for an entire week, everything stays remarkably clean, and the dishwasher runs once every three days instead of three times every day.
A slice of lemon in my water bottle makes me so much happier about hydration.
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