I've obviously had nothing to blog about recently -- or maybe I'm not thinking about anything, which is a less comforting explanation. I do want to post something, though, so:
- I've recently started listening to Ukeland's UkeCast. It's so pleasant! You get to hear lots of people's original uke songs!
I'm also taking my cheap ukulele to the chidlcare with me when I work some. It makes me feel as if I'm actually contributing to music education. It's neat to see which kids pick up how the instrument works pretty quickly. Others mostly want to try to fiddle with the tuning pegs. - Pepys yesterday: "Dined alone; sad for want of company and not being very well, and know not how to eat alone."
Poor Pepys. Of course, he isn't alone in modern terms -- his family is there, and his servants -- but he's alone by seventeenth century standards because he has no guests. But that only points out more that lonliness is an emotion, not an objective state -- and here Pepys express an emotion which seems to have remained the same, despite changing definitions of aloneness, across three hundred years: "sad, and know not how to eat alone." - But to join these two items together -- Michael Leviton apparently "sings the lonliest songs," according to his album cover -- but those lonely songs are played on the ukulele! Which lets us all know -- Pepys, and me, and you alike -- that there's hope after all.
Regarding the Ukecast:
I am A G O G ! I've never been able to get hooked on a podcast, but this may break precedent in a big way.
Unrelated: There is a groundhog family near my new apartment. They run into the underbrush when I get near, but none of them have gone up a tree. Good for them! Bad for my selfish desire to see a groundhog in a tree!