Yesterday

 Bloomsday 

Yesterday a big day worldwide.  Chatter had a great piece:  "A Kind of Mirror" by Brendon Randall-Myers for piano and fixed electronics.  Miki Sawada on piano, from Boston, on her way to do a 100 mile marathon through the Sierras in California.  

We went to Tablao Flamenco at the Hotel Albuquerque at 4.  It was good.  Better than a few years ago, three dancers, cantatara? andEguitarist.  

Earlier in the month Mathias Énard's "The Deserters" was a terrible disappointment.  

Since then been enjoying Lobo Antunes' "Knowledge of Hell."  It probably helps that I did read his shorter earlier work about the Angola war.  But what helps more is knowing he trained as a psychiatrist and my memories of Eugenia Memorial Hospital.  Faint yet scorched memories now, enough to conjure and elaborate with.  

Photo from Paris of Emma in her ballet recital.  She looks wonderful in pale blue tutu and much more graceful and beautiful in motion than a year or two ago.  Now fourteen.  We'll see them at last in about a month.