Category Archives: Essays
Music for my Funeral
No, I am not anticipating my demise at any particular time. My physician assures me I am in pretty good shape for the shape I’m in. Perhaps we all have fantasies about what people will do and say subsequent to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Brian Eno, Chopin, Grieg, Haydn, Hovhaness, Khachaturian, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Philip Glass, Rachmaninov, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Tschaikovsky, Vivaldi
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I Have This Notion…
… that each of us has at least one talent, an inborn way that, if we were living 10,000 years ago, would be of specific value to the clan or group of cavemen we belong to. I have read that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Banner Peak, cavemen, fishing, humans, hunting, scouting, Sierra Nevada, tracking
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