Link to Club Dada Concert 1993

This is a Dropbox link to a live concert I did on KERA with Abby Goldstein in 1993.  I think you have to request to download it.  Send me your email address, and I can give you access if you are interested. (mereloho[at]gmail[dot]com)😉

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/nhxxo6m597ixgt4/AACEJphXWiHbYwpBl9SiU2E5a?dl=0

Checking in

I know it's been FOREVEEEEEEER since I posted.  I no longer sit in a carpool line waiting for the kids.  I have a nice walk through a garden to pick up C, and C and I wait in the car to pick up H. 
I have been noodling around on the piano, H's cello, and my guitar.  I have mandated a "Creative 15" every weekday.  I usually adhere to it.  Sometimes not.  I feel happier during and after I do it.  So MAYBE just maybe there will be a new song appear on the horizon.  Garage Band is easier and more complex, so we'll see.

Update: Creative 15 has become Creative 5 or how long do I have to be frivolous. But I try to remember it is not frivolous to enjoy and improve ones gift and the part of humans who needs to create to survive. 

Second goal of Iyengar Yoga 15 and/or Tai Chi 15 has not been met. Progress, not perfection. 

Dunkerque et Bayeux

The French are not friendly. Just aloof. I have spoken French to a few and they reply in English. I suppose this is to be nice, but it sometimes feels condescending, or at least prohibitively impatient. Dunkerque itself is industrial and not very scenic. 

I don’t speak French laundry. I am glad the owner came right after I put in my wash bc I had put the soap in the wrong slot. I have been trying to speak French to people, but they reply so quickly I can’t understand very well so they speak English back to me. Bayeux is crawling with Americans. And we are very annoying. H thought we would be speaking a “secret language,” but not only do most of the French people speak English, but there are mostly native English speakers here. I don’t know if the English are bi or tri-lingual or not. I am guessing they are much more than Americans. 

London and Vicinity

Happened upon Hyde Park on my run. Apparently Edgeware Road is an Arab/Muslim neighborhood. Just an observation. Lots of different languages and accents. A circle is a circus. Hyde Park has amazing huge trees, and you can barely hear the traffic from the street maybe 100 yards away. Nice asphalt path. Perfect running temps everything seems cheap even though it’s multiplied by 1.25. Kensington Garden is inside Hyde Park. Pretty gorgeous. 

Maybe my favorite thing about the English is we can agree Trump is a dolt. I think if Tank Fest has been in the US I would have hated it, but the huge crowd of mostly Brits was so polite and not obnoxious, it was bearable. Our taxi driver Kate is very nice and down to earth. I like her. The town of Broadmayne is very nice. Small and peaceful. A nice guy at the PO/convenience store drove me to the Coop to get cash. The B&B made us bacon sandwiches for the morning of tankfest since we wouldnt be there for breakfast. I like that the cyclists speak to the walkers. I love hearing the languages spoken from all over the world. All the foliage covering the road is so pretty. I didn’t shut up the entire trip marveling at the flora in all of Britain and Northern France.