Well, Cliff arrives from Pennsylvania at Oakland Airport in late morning and is outbound ultimately to Bali from San Francisco early the next. BART goes directly from the one terminal to the other, and I've also proposed that we simply linger in the general area for the duration of the day, but he is keen to come back to our place and rest up, so here we go --
down
I-
80
through
Solano
over
the
Sulpher Springs Mountains,
Contra
Costa,
to
Alameda,
and the
pickup (dicey battery on Cliff's cellphone notwithstanding).
Evidently I am to the car as Lucky is to his bags --
re-energized by the trip and further so by the loop homeward (despite commuter traffic),
through the Caldecott Tunnel
towards
Mt. Diablo,
then
northward
again,
recapitulating
the
old
DCC
commute
homeward,
on
the
152nd day of summer,
high way up 18 to 104!
Fairfield, 100
Oakland, 73
Pleasant Hill, 95
Before the outing, thank Tony for his generous gift re performances this Christmas season of
The Nativity According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998).
Previous and post: new cover,
web page on the Complete Works site, and visual representation for
All the Effects in I-Movie, Op. 189 (2011),
edit page 38
Piano Concerto ("Child's Play"), Op. 122 (2004)
I. Allegro
and have a bit more to say textually re
Book of Dreams, 2022, Op. 376 (2022)
August 1-2
3pm Juan a 2-Fisted Drinker...
3am Peace... PAIN!... At Westminster Church Office, w/ Harriet: Trust Us, Emma,
We've Done This Before... What's His Actitude?...
10am Some Sensation of Dying...
This in the interval commemorating Henry Hudson (1565-1611) first sailing into his namesake Bay )1610) and the birthdays of
Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) and
James Baldwin (1924-1987) --
to a sound-and-light show of Kansans rejecting a bid to ban abortion (!),
G.F. Handel (1685-1759) - Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E Major (1720): IV. The Harmoniuous Blacksmith
(inspiration for
The Disharmonious Blacksmith, Op. 397 [2022]),
the Senate looking like it might be able to pass the Burn Pits legislation,
Jan Kalliwoda (1801-1856) - Symphony No. 4 in C Major, Op. 60 (1835),
Charles Gounod (1818-1893) - Funeral March of a Marionette (1872),
Max Bruch (1838-1920) - Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major, Op. 51 (1887),
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - Symphony No. 1 in D Major (1888),
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - Petite Suite (1889),
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) - First Essay for Orchestra (1938),
with, in a sense, both Nancy Pelosi (b. 1940) and
Rick Steves (b. 1955) Island Hopping, but not
Ayman Al-Zawahiri (1951-2022) -- although, who knows?, metaphorically...