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"Days like this happen, and i am taking good care of myself."
That's the framing my therapist gave me for Thursday.
Yesterday, i still had a headache when i woke, and i decided to really indulge myself in rest. In the morning i wrote two emails on behalf of Oversight. I had hoped part of the stress was around my concern about how to help someone see that there are boundaries for what the community will do for and with someone.
As a bit of a meta-reflection, while i was trying to watch The Fountainhead i was recalling my youthful idealization of anarchy and libertarianism and Ayn Rand, remember my mother trying to explain to me how important community is. I don't remember when i shifted my opinion, but it was definitely a shift that came from adult experience. The idealization that i could hold as a young adult was only possible because i had lived such a privileged and sheltered life. Far from perfect, and certainly not a life of luxury but of thrift, but a life where food and shelter and safety were always available. I probably have a greater belief now than my mother had in the social contracts we enter into, and a greater belief that that those contracts must be adjusted to address all people with justice.
( Long reflection on a particular Quaker responsibility at hand )
* I need to get exercise: indeed, i may have already missed the sun light of today. Fiddlesticks.
* I need to write my quarterly report.
I'm suspecting i'm not eating well although i have a hard time pointing to any meal i'm short shifting myself on. We'll see how a walk helps.
Last night i heard the New Century Chamber Orchestra in Palo Alto. I was expecting a community and amateur performance but was impressed by the incredible professional performance. Only fifteen minutes away! And not on 101! And parking was easy! Christine deserves incredible music in her life, and while i appreciate the artistry of the San Francisco symphony, my the cost of tickets plus the drive and the parking and the traffic.... Well, these tickets aren't cheap, but it's so close! I should encourage Christine to pick out tickets for this spring.
25 March: http://www.ncco.org/1011season/masteryofschubert.htm
21 May: http://www.ncco.org/1011season/worldpremiere.htm
The performance last night: http://www.ncco.org/1011season/waltzinginappalachia.htm
Bach (arr. Sitkovetsky): Goldberg Variations
Mark O’Connor: Song of the Liberty Bell
Mark O’Connor: Strings and Threads
Mark O’Connor, violin
Mark O’Connor: Appalachia Waltz
Not at all Copland-y, thank heavens, because i find Copland annoying. The Goldberg Variations were an amazing marathon performance and somewhat taxed my ability to listen, but i became utterly enthralled by the concertmaster and first violinist of this group that performs without a conductor.
That's the framing my therapist gave me for Thursday.
Yesterday, i still had a headache when i woke, and i decided to really indulge myself in rest. In the morning i wrote two emails on behalf of Oversight. I had hoped part of the stress was around my concern about how to help someone see that there are boundaries for what the community will do for and with someone.
As a bit of a meta-reflection, while i was trying to watch The Fountainhead i was recalling my youthful idealization of anarchy and libertarianism and Ayn Rand, remember my mother trying to explain to me how important community is. I don't remember when i shifted my opinion, but it was definitely a shift that came from adult experience. The idealization that i could hold as a young adult was only possible because i had lived such a privileged and sheltered life. Far from perfect, and certainly not a life of luxury but of thrift, but a life where food and shelter and safety were always available. I probably have a greater belief now than my mother had in the social contracts we enter into, and a greater belief that that those contracts must be adjusted to address all people with justice.
( Long reflection on a particular Quaker responsibility at hand )* I need to get exercise: indeed, i may have already missed the sun light of today. Fiddlesticks.
* I need to write my quarterly report.
I'm suspecting i'm not eating well although i have a hard time pointing to any meal i'm short shifting myself on. We'll see how a walk helps.
Last night i heard the New Century Chamber Orchestra in Palo Alto. I was expecting a community and amateur performance but was impressed by the incredible professional performance. Only fifteen minutes away! And not on 101! And parking was easy! Christine deserves incredible music in her life, and while i appreciate the artistry of the San Francisco symphony, my the cost of tickets plus the drive and the parking and the traffic.... Well, these tickets aren't cheap, but it's so close! I should encourage Christine to pick out tickets for this spring.
25 March: http://www.ncco.org/1011season/masteryofschubert.htm
21 May: http://www.ncco.org/1011season/worldpremiere.htm
The performance last night: http://www.ncco.org/1011season/waltzinginappalachia.htm
Bach (arr. Sitkovetsky): Goldberg Variations
Mark O’Connor: Song of the Liberty Bell
Mark O’Connor: Strings and Threads
Mark O’Connor, violin
Mark O’Connor: Appalachia Waltz
Not at all Copland-y, thank heavens, because i find Copland annoying. The Goldberg Variations were an amazing marathon performance and somewhat taxed my ability to listen, but i became utterly enthralled by the concertmaster and first violinist of this group that performs without a conductor.
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