Monday, February 8, 2016

A lot to report

It's been a while since my last post and there is a lot to report. Looking ahead, we are leaving in two days to drive to Boulder again, to provide some respite help to make it possible for Katie to take a week off to visit friends in the Boston area, and also just provide Rob with support. We will be away about a month.

Looking back, we left Owl's Head, ME last Tuesday, stopped in Bath, ME on the way so Ellen could visit the Halcyon Yarn store, ran into Jim there, who came down to meet music students, then went on to Ogunquit, where we walked the beach, and then Kittery, where we went to When Pigs Fly bread store, and then Bob's Clam Hut where we had lunch, and then on to home. Since being home, we have gone to a rehearsal of the Rachmaninov Vespers, a "cabin fever" workshop with Larry Gordon and Carl Linich, singing Georgian, African and Gospel songs, a wonderful Service at the Guilford Church, a powerful concert of African-American spirituals and songs by Charles Mays, and got together with John and Cynthia. There have also been meetings, Ellen was with Tamar for a while, had a supper and movie date with her daughter, Julie, I spent several hours in the Subaru agency while our Impreza had some major work in anticipation of our trip, and I also did some major cleaning and organizing in my study, which desperately needed it - that is ongoing. So it has been a full time. 


          The entrance to Jim's studio in Bath

 
                    Jim in his studio, where he meets students one day a week.


                      When Pigs Fly bread store

            Some of the delicious bread there


   
Bob's Clam Hut, featuring Lilllian Mangos, who worked the counter for decades. 


                               "Cabin Fever" workshop

       Larry Gordon leading a song 

After church at Guilford. A group of young people and adults from the church is leaving for Kenya this week, taking with  them 80 tie-dyed T-shirts they made for orphans there - on display on the wall. The church has a more than a decade-long connection with the village of Kaiguchu in Kenya, deriving from a visit by Wangari Matthai to the Guilford church back in 2001. 







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