November 2, 2025

Brunch with D and H at the Crown Plaza. Recollections of adventures past, planning for adventures future. It’s funny the things people remember about you that you may not even have noticed, sayings of yours that they latch onto with any memory of it on your part. They remembered walking in on me in a café in Buda, just sitting at my table writing, carefree, as though I had lived there all my life. They remembered me turning to them when the first bit of music for The Birth of Color was performed, saying, “I didn’t know it was going to be good.

Lauridsen Lux Aeterna at First Baptist for All Saints. I think we did well. I was in iffy voice, but made no actual mistakes. I’m the only bass with the very high notes and the only bass with the very low notes, even when the voice is iffy. Bright moon in the parking lot. 

Discouraged to discover I’d lost my driver’s license. I never lose anything, so I gnashed my teeth at the unfairness of it all. As I was singing I had a clear image of the coat I had warn earlier in the day, and when I checked later, there the license was, having fallen out of my wallet. Take deep breath. Clear your mind, and the world will answer.