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  • The concerto search has yet to yield fruit. I'm trying to track down recordings of the Tchaikovsky, the Barber, and Rachmaninoff's Pagannini Variations. My teacher has been earnestly recommending the Tchaikovsky to my at…

  • Who needs muses when there are chocolate chip cookies?

  • For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. 1 Cor. 5:7 What thought Christ as He entered that upper room where His disciples had made ready for Him, and saw the roasted lamb before Him on the table? He was t…

  • I thought getting up before five was a one-time occurrence. I've since discovered that the rooster starts crowing just before six every morning and that Fred starts barking at about the same time. Dogs and roosters may p…

  • I have the score to the second Prokofiev piano concerto. There are no words.

  • My alarm is set for quarter of five. Does the world exist before 5 am?

  • So that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. Spurgeon said that we are immortal till our work is done. Can't we go a step further and say that we are immortal? The life within us is indestructible, and is now wai…

  • If the pain is anything like the pain of getting in wisdom teeth, I beg pardon of every baby whose fretfulness during teething has irked me. If there is a trait of taggableness, I seem to possess it. Daniel and Emily, I…

  • Two hideous moths, a lightning bug, and innumerable tiny crawling things are trying to commit suicide by dashing themselves headfirst into my window.

  • Mocking laughter, and laughter in response to entertainment, come easily. Kind laughter doesn't. Someone who can relish comedy and absurdity because he is humble enough to know it when he sees it, even in himself, has le…

  • So what do you think about this monastery? Want to help me take it over? Thanks to Emma Meador for the photo!

  • One of my piano students made a little clay bear on a toothpick swing for me today. It's adorable beyond words. I'll miss her when I go to Winston-Salem. I only get to teach her one more lesson. She's the one who, when…

  • I got a postcard today from Greece!!!!!! Kate I LOVE it. I want to live in a monastery at the top of a cliff ! But I suppose that would scandalize the monks, not to mention everybody else. Why are all the fun things for…

  • my to-do list 1. Find my checkbook cover2. Catalogue the downstairs CD's3. Get the score to the second Prokofiev piano concerto (and apparently it entails flying to England and burgling the Boosey and Hawkes warehouse!)…

  • There are some religious poets who can repeat the oldest, truest truths so breathtakingly and boldly that you quail at first, as if at heresy. Or as at some light, intolerably bright. All is in an enormous darkDrowned. …

  • I think I've been to nearly every ballet school in Raleigh by now. I had no idea there were this many student ballerinas in the world. High school girls are awful. Sitting behind my desk lastnight, squashed amongst four…

  • So what do you do when, decorously driving through a parking lot, you stop for two guys in camo, who put on a show of mortal fear and clutch each other and run, then turn around and wink at you?

  • Scholaites are the greatest people in the world. Thanks so much for the call, Daniel! It was great to chat with you. Only a Scholaite would randomly call you eight or nine months later than expected, from the back seat …

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