The Eastside View

APOLOGIES FIRST: for the double send of the lqst dispqtch; qnd for the odd spelling here! I am using a French keyboard; and the sun is in my...

Chapelle d'Abondance, June 24-- Let's see: where was I? Oh yes: up early yesterday to watch the cows brought in for milking. One man...

Chapelle d'Abondance, June 24-- Let's see: where was I? Oh yes: up early yesterday to watch the cows brought in for milking. One man...

But it was a harder day than I anticipated. Up about five to see the dawn and take photos, then write with a first coffee -- black, in a bow...

This second day started well, proved difficult later, ended oddly, at least in my experience. I rose at six to do some writing and thinking;...

Creusaz, Friday, June 20-- Definitely a difficult day today though a short walk, no more than twelve km I think. We landed in Geneve about t...

T O THE I MAGINISTS LAST NIGHT , there to see a production called Travel , conceived and produced by its entire cast. To the point, since I ...

I T'S SO BEAUTIFUL HERE . We think about that every day, of course. Gratitude is increasingly the most pressing order of the day's b...

Y ESTERDAY I READ THIS POEM in a year-old annual brochure from the local Community Foundation and it knocked, as they say, my socks off: F...

Mt. Saint Helena in the distance across the dry fields south of Windsor U F: IT'S GETTING HOT , over ninety degrees today. I decided I n...

THE GUITAR, that ideal instrument: wood, steel, brass; a body famously like a woman's; a voice capable of insinuating melody or resonant...

A NOTHER S UNDAY HIKE , preparing for the long walk beginning later this month. Off we went, Mac and Henry and I, to a local state park, the...

Y ES, I KNOW : the little Milhaud survey is to be completed. I'll probably get back to that in a few days. It's been a busy time, p...

Glendale, May 21-- M OLIERE'S D ON J UAN is truly a wonderful play; if it's neglected here, it's probably because of Mozart and...

Here's a test transmission from the TX using the folding keyboard, much as I propose to do this summer from the Alpwalk.

Glendale, May 18-- W E SEEM TO HAVE STRUCK A PATTERN : a good play, a problem, a good one, another problem. Today it was an earnest politica...

Glendale, May 17-- M EASURE FOR MEASURE TONIGHT : what an amazing play! We saw it at the small, community Eclectic Company Theatre : severa...

Glendale, Friday, May 16-- L AST NIGHT'S PLAY at A Noise Within -- The Night of the Iguana -- was so good, tonight was bound to be a ...

O N A TRIP TO LOS ANGELES back in 2002, having a spare evening on our hands, we noticed Noël Coward's Hay Fever was playing at a theat...

N O; IT'S NOT A LOVELY SONG by Richard Strauss I'm thinking of this morning. A glance at Language Lab this morning turns up some c...