Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["Goldstein, Louis" <>]

Thank you, Rod.

 I've never been so glad for a year to be ending; it hardly seems necessary to say "may next year be better!"  BUT, lets say it - - may next year be better!!!!!  I am full of admiration with how so many marshalled your strength and fought off unexpected adversity.

Sleep well, and we'll wake up in 2021

Love to all,

Louie 

On Thu, Dec 31, 2020, 10:46 PM Rod Stasick <> wrote:

Hope the silence family is staying safe while
getting ready for a new year.

Yes, not much will change when our respective clocks
go past midnight into the new year, but symbolic change
always tries to instill some new hope for next year -
and boy do we need that more than ever now.

I remember a certain tempered excitement over the
numerical magic of “2020” and all of the talk about
looking ahead with 20/20 vision, etc. (I even had plans
to see an ophthalmologist for the first time this year).
But, even after the large amount of confinement that
I had to deal with last year in 2019 because we had about
three-quarters of our house completely remodeled from
January to December, followed by the Bell’s Palsy episode
starting in January 2020 and, now the virus situation that
we’re all dealing with (except those who should be “dealing”
with it), I realized that it was the creative working with my
surroundings that had helped and still does help get over
the occasional ennui that’s easy to slip into these days.
Realizing, now, that I don’t want to be “the last guy who
died in Viet Nam,” has also kept my mind looking ahead to
this Fall when I can hope that we all can be “free to move
about the cabin.” The oddest of times, but one in which we
don’t have to emerge with empty heads.

Take care everyone and stay safe with those you love,

Rod


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