New books.
We handled the new booster well (enough), although I did require a couple of naps to do so. Still, we walked both mornings, worked and studied, kept up with our music; in short, a good showing.
A few more
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New books
This weekend, we saw a remarkable production of Measure for Measure at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and performed in our community band’s Halloween concert. Upcoming: music lessons, early voting, reading group meetings, walks, leaf-raking, and a two-day respite to recover from the Covid bivalent booster.
A few new books
Since my last post, I’ve walked 56.3 miles, practiced music for nearly as many hours, and finished six books. More later.
New books
Received a few new books yesterday.
Acquisitions
Already shelved.
A few more books
Recently acquired and shelved.
Acquisitions
My photos of recently acquired books have become my TBR pile.
Acquisitions
A few new books.
Cezanne
From Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast :
p. 13
I was learning something from the painting of Cezanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions that I was trying to put in them. I was learning very much from him but I was not articulate enough to explain it to anyone. Besides it was a secret.
p. 69
I learned to understand Cezanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat. It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have been sleepless or hungry. Later I thought Cezanne was probably hungry in a different way.
Walking
Chicory is under-appreciated.
From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four:
Chapter 7:
How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
Nerdishly 