10 Jan

As things pick up after New Years, I've had caffeinated mornings and steady afternoons of fruitful work. Today marks a few watershed moments: I'll speak with LZ, a flute player whose CD's I heard as a twelve-year-old. I'll audition this evening for a contemporary a cappella vocal ensemble, one of potentially many chamber auditions I'll do over my budding performance career. In the meantime I'm maintaining my journaling/reflections and nibbling on the healthy bookshelf in my living room.

24 Jan

Update: LZ project moves forward, and I got into SONUS! Keep an eye out.

CS mentioned "The History Boys" with his highest recommendation, and the film exposed me to new queer voices lost in a world of symbols. I'm alluding to Ernest Becker here: this week I pulled "The Denial of Death" off Pastor M's bookshelf and started reading about immortality, spurred on by this high-quality video essay (CW: war) that references Becker and Hannah Arendt's "The Banality of Evil." Folks try to cheat death using memory, symbols, and often (as in my case) in the promises of faith.

I'll keep munching on these good works and words.