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Cornell
[By which I don't mean the upstate New York university, where my nephew – hi, Ben, how are you? – is finishing his freshman year…. Which brings us to a peripheral tale, before I even get into the point of this blog entry: I told my sister, and have joked to several friends (sorry, Ben)…
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Making
A tutorial with a smart but thus far undisciplined masters student, where I was quite definite about the draft paper he'd sent me – I thought it was chaotic and touched on an unmanageable array of topics, and said so. Fortunately he didn't seem to mind, and went home to rewrite the whole thing (not…
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Through the gate
The last section of Ravel's Ma mére l'oye (Mother Goose – it is also at the end of the suite) is 'Le jardin féerique', the fairy garden. This finale is built on strange, quasi-archaic contrapuntal lines, which have a sort of hieratic grandeur in the way they don't match neatly. About halfway through, everything evaporates…
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Light, air
About six weeks since my last post. No serious reason for this – not especially in stasis, not down, not depressed; busy but not immensely so, just many things to do in a long row. There are changes – new plans, changing plans, changing dreams – most of which bode well in one way or…
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Poisoning Rats
Warfarin is a drug in very common use – a variety of stroke, heart and other blood conditions tend to lead to it being prescribed. It comes in several strengths, each of which has a different color; patients get blood tests, at first weekly or biweekly, to see just how much they should take to…
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The City
It will be obvious to anyone who has read much of this blog that San Francisco still has, nearly thirteen long years after I last lived there, an intense fascination (or should I say obsession?) for me. My love of small, beautiful cities, of gently artistic, liberal people, of hillside houses, of small neighborhoods stamped…
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Paul Attinello 