Hi All –
I had originally thought that I might conduct a conversation
about music on Friday but instead, we segued off into a different
direction. So we’ll talk about
music sometime in the future. Or,
I suppose we could go out into the pasture to talk about it. This reminds me of a quote by Paul
Valéry: “The future isn’t what it used to be.”
The subject of music struck
a chord with me as it caused me to remember (not always fondly) my school
days when I played the violin in the orchestra. Please do not for an instance think that I was very good –
rather it was a case of the school rounding up everybody who had at least SEEN
a violin and coercing them into the orchestra. All 3 or 4 of us.
Counselor:
“Kid, if you wanna graduate, see, yer gonna hafta play that there fiddle
in the orchestra. Ya see?”
Me: “Y-y-y-yes
sir.”
To tell the truth, though, I freely chose to join the
orchestra because I had no ability or interest in sports, besides, P.E.
(Physical Education) was an evil class where all the jocks took pleasure in walking all over those of us who were
nerds. If we were playing
baseball, for example, and I had made a bad
call by, say, throwing the ball to a spectator instead of to the catcher,
then I would catch hell from just
about everybody. Some mean guys
would hassle us at the drop of a hat
just for grins.
Well, I have meandered off the subject of music onto
physical education. I figure that
this meandering will have burned off some of the calories that I inadvertently
acquired by overeating during dinner.
We had pizza and well, let’s face it, I’m not the sharpest knife in the
drawer when it comes to sensible eating.
If I keep this up, I’ll be as big as a house!
Kevin
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