alive

with the help of trader joe's fruit leather, frothy apple cider, wnyc 2, richard savino's lute playing, and the john dowland project.

the snow seems to be melting
and the sky is finally blue
not some shade of grey

crossover projects are difficult to consider. my ideas are blurry and still fairly abstract. it frustrates me, this ambiguity. but maybe that's the point.

cristal's garden project is a good one. will it find the necessary campus and community support? a greenhouse is one way to circumvent the problem of winter. i was thinking, though, winter vegetables? i think it would be cool to prep a presentation for the community on the viable plants (veggies, flowers, fruits, etc) in conjunction with a botanist/biologist/environmental someone who would know such things (westchester county park guy amanda knows?).

comments, please leave them...maybe a website collaboration with robin and others?...

buzz

upcoming this week:

• tuesday late morning -- audition for tanglewood music center in new york city;
• wednesday evening -- flute lesson with the lovely tara helen o'connor;
• thursday early afternoon (feb 14) -- audition for pacific music festival
• thursday evening (yes, v-day) -- shift at rebecca's;
• friday evening -- fin's solo vocal show at a supper club in the city, staying over at kat's in the east village;
• saturday early morning -- audition for schleswig-holstein musik festival

ostensibly, the week from hell. on top of that, long orchestra rehearsals tuesday and friday and two early shifts at the library. tutoring also starts this week, hopefully no one will have hard questions. i'm still trying to recover from not enough sleep and a rotten cold. the house has been quiet with michelle out of town; almost back to the weeks before school when i had just moved in and hardly left the house for fear of spending money.

today: cooking asparagus pasta for the lovely alice jones, afterwards purse shopping.

Paul Klee - Burg und Sonne - 1928