Up at 4:30am and out at 5:15,
arriving 15 minutes early, with
Megan,
for
Harriet's 6:00 double-knee-surgery
check-in at the
hospital. We linger until 7:15, as Harriet settles into an alternative reality, then head back home
(after a
circuitous taking-leave
of the
facility)
in
the
rising
sun
to
catch
up
on sleep and eagerly await the time we can visit after the operation, meanwhile composing the next page (9) of Psalm 46, doing video for
Pied Piper Suite: I. Air ("Into the Street"), and updating 21st-Century Music with news of the Met premiere (after all these years) of John Adams's Nixon in China and the situation in Egypt.
Turns out that it's don't-call-you/you'll-call-us re the hospital (twice!),
but at last
we can break
camp for a
reunion.
Harriet is weak, but strong -- in good spirits after the successful surgery -- having been somewhat conscious due to merely local anesthesia during the operation (basically her choice, astoundingly finding the experience a positive one). We bestow upon her flowers and card and love and good wishes
and
make
our
departure, calling Tisha, Marek, Sharon, LaVerne, and Bette and George with updates. Another piano-vocal page of New Big People Old Trouble So Sunday and placing another fine Tom Moore interview in the Journal upon return. Also do a second draft of the Alex Shapiro article for Grove American.
