Monday, March 26, 2007

A Circle of Seven

Sunday: MB and I slept until noon. Gus treatments. She had a sitting while I made breakfast. A bit too much cheese on the eggs today. I vacuumed some ants up into a cloth and released them on the porch. Breakfast with MB. Unpacked the car. A guy was walking down the street looking in car windows. My neighbor Chris came out of his house and said "Can I help you?" The guy said "I am just trying to get the pimple out of my face." Chris said "Well don't squirt it on the car." and went back inside. Shower, while MB cleaned up the dishes.

Down basement, morning practices, drums, guitar, some reading, some more meditation. Somehow it got to be 6 PM. Took a walk with MB out and about. Tried to talk to a guy lurking around two doors down, but he couldn't speak English. We walked around and up onto Highland. Lots of garbage. Up to the "castle on the hill" where some guys were playing a small kit drum and hand percussion. Enjoyed the sunset, and the vista. Walked back home, packed the car and headed out to Guitar Circle.

Alex and Chris P were there before us. A good meeting, with 7 of us. It's been quite a while since we had a circle of this size. Felt good. We worked on a new piece of Victor's, then other repertoire: EotN, Third Rel, Inv 1, Passage, Asturias, Askesis, Thrak, Growing Circle. We tried to circulate C Major up and back in 4 octaves. Not so good, which is sad, because it should have been easy as pie, given that there were 7 of us. A good rehearsal overall. Chris has come a long way, and I'm not just saying that because he lives in CT.

Back home, MB and I ate leftover Chinese food and some soup. Down basement and catching up on diary entries.

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