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"Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time."
~Howard Nemerov
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Lisa
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…props for those who deal with a human at their most vulnerable and easily most painful.
OK, fine. Hospital food continues to be the high bar by which all other “blech” is better.
I’ll be back in a couple weeks, as soon as getting released to walk among the living again.
I was dreading- but recognizing the necessity of- this surgery for a while. Still hurts like hell—saying a lot, a week after the knives stopped clinking.
I will say, having been thru a
similar something a decade ago, the post-op surgical care from SSM has been fantastic. Seriously…
'The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis names Murry education director'
🖋 St. Louis American staff
📸 Courtesy photo
#stlamerican #stlnews #stlouis #peopleonthemove #MusicEducation #CommunityArts #NewLeadership
Lisa
Lisa
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Your thoughtful must-read of the day.
“Night of the homeless, the sleepless, night of those winding the watches of their souls, the stopped watches, before the machine with mirrors.”
~Charles Simic, from “Dime Store Alchemy”—his book about artist Joseph Cornell
🌙 Sleep is not coming easy, so it looks like a journaling night.
#poetry
A break from the scroll, peeps. You may need a cardiac surgeon, since this rips your heart out, tosses it around the double reeds and violin, stuffs it back in and calls it a day. Gorgeous.
Zelenka Sonata III in B-Flat Major, ZWV. 181/3: I. Adagio
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#ClassicalMusic
Nite, peeps. Brilliant performance of Nicola Matteis’ Variations on la Folia. Their comments in the last couple minutes add interesting perspective. And…“Hit the road, Jack” makes a brief appearance. 🤷🏻♀️
#classicalmusic
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RIP, David Hockney. I had the pleasure of meeting him briefly at a Larry Rivers gig in Southampton, NY about 35 years ago. #davidhockney #art #rip www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis has appointed Twinda Murry as director of education, overseeing the organization’s Chamber Academy and music education programs. Murry spent 34 years teaching orchestra in the Hazelwood, Rockwood, Webster Groves and Ladue school districts. In Ladue, she helped expand student participation in the district’s orchestra program and supported multiple […]
"The Carnegie library on Kensington asked nothing of me except to show up. What I found there was mine — to keep, to take wherever I went. Nobody profited from my curiosity. Nobody sold it back to me shaped into content designed to keep me anxious and clicking."
