Orts #680
No woman can be utterly cast down who has a nice, bright, blue and white kitchen facing the west, with a good gas range, and blue and white checkered linoleum on the floor.
-- Nellie McClung, in the Toronto Star, October 2, 1926
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
-- Faith Baldwin (1893-1978)
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror....
-- Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
—————————————————————
Why would a guy who has known for a long time that he has nothing to say to anyone about anything suddenly up and start a blog?
It’s a fair question, and one to which I have no answer.
Nonetheless, that’s what I’ve done, and I invite you to have a look.
The four posts under the Music heading (on the Grosse Fuge, and starting July 11) were the initial impetus.
I am fighting the nagging feeling that the whole enterprise may be purely solipsistic.
In any case, have a look if you feel like it — I won’t take it personally if you decide not to subscribe (or “follow”): http://curmudgeonone.wordpress.com/