Archive for the ‘life’ Category
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Colombia
I just returned from a fantastic week in Colombia. Yes, that Colombia. I participated with a choir from our university in an international festival of sacred music during Holy Week. It was fantastic. I will not give an extensive travelogue at this point - I will only say that there are two Colombias: the one [...]
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the cinnamon toothpaste
For those of you wondering how my goal to finish the cinnamon toothpaste turned out, here is the result:
This week we went to the Salvation Army store and bought two silver platters, badly tarnished. I spent an evening with rags and my cinnamon toothpaste, cleaning and polishing and polishing and polishing. It used much of [...] -
getting up on time
How to get up when your alarm goes off
I am going to try this. If it works, I’ll let you know. Added it to my 43 Things.
For me, waking up is one of the least pleasant acts in my life, but I really enjoy the time I am awake. -
fame and fortune
(By fame and fortune, I mean fortune in the sense of good things happening, not in the sense of money in pocket.) It was a good day Friday. I showed the new arrangement of Far, Far Away on Judea’s Plains to my choral conducting professor, who is also the director of the Women’s Glee Club [...]