March 5 - The Daze Distractions

Seems like we're going out every day now, despite the need for weekend concentration on some of the tasks at hand, alas.  So today, after page 4 is composed for Psalm 48 (which turns out to be its conclusion) and some 21st-Century Music work, depart with Harriet for her new DVD player and head back to the library for more video enrichment, including --

The Fountainhead (1949, after Ayn Rand's 1943 novel),

the film (1977) of Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1854),

 
the adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square (1880) that is The Heiress (1949),

How Green Was My Valley (1941),

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923, somewhat after Victor Hugo's 1831 original),

I, Claudius (Robert Graves, 1934/1976),

John Adams (2008),

Judgment at Nuremberg (1961),

Kiss of Death (1947), and

The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) --

on a mild (68 degrees) and increasing-clouds day.  Home again takes us to the final draft of the Belinda Reynolds article for Grove American, the editing of the fourth movement of New Big People Old Trouble So Sunday, and one of the last Street Songs videos --



VII. Irish Potatos.

March 4 - All Watched Over

Compose page 3 of Psalm 48 before Harriet's first outing in four weeks to the day after the operation,

driving to Kaiser for

Physical Therapy where she is given deserved praise, in a session which is long enough to allow a run to the local post office

and a dash

to

Mix Canyon

and

Pleasants Valley on an indeed

pleasant spring day

(with a high exactly that of average for the date -- 62).

Return

via the

community gym

and pool and coffee shop, then editing third movement of New Big People Old Trouble So Sunday, final draft of the Mona Lynn Reese article for Grove American, and yet another Street Song video,



XI. Push Broom.

March 3 - On the Trail

A Happy Birthday to George -- and many more! -- checking in early, as Bette and he head to the shore for condo excitations.

Compose the second page of Psalm 48 ("Great Is the Lord") as a collision of G.F. Handel and Philip Glass,

then

a

safe

passage

on

680

to

Diablo Valley College for

Quiz 6, with excerpts drawn from Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Gesualdo, Heinrich Schutz, Henry Purcell, Arcangelo Corelli, Antonio Vivaldi, and J.S. Bach --

to a semi-chorus of solfege in the hallway from veteran students practicing for an Own Lee evaluation --

winging

away

in

reverse,

then

on

4

over

the Richmond to

Marin in plenty of time to grade said work (virtually all A's) and check the

postal box's financial greetings.

Make

the

way

back

to

Solano

on

37

and

80

to

walk

the next short stretch of

McGary Road from

The Eucalypti

(not so Lone, actually),

under the cliffs of Pilot Peak Plateau,

to Sulfur Spring Foothill Canyon Trace;

then

homeward

on

east

via

several

errands

for editing the second movement of New Big People Old Trouble So Sunday and producing yet another Street Songs video...



XII. Shaving Cream.