Isaac Greene

Though I have spoken of it often throughout my life, I realized I have never written down my memories of 9/11 and the following days.

📚Finished Reading: Matilda, Roald Dahl.

Bach at his most introspective (and French).

The longer I teach guitar the more convinced I am we need a guild with rigorous examinations before you are allowed to teach.

Leaving Parting from you, rising into the air, I enter again the absence we came together in.

Speaking of olfactory memories, today the twins and I rode to a cafe where they have this amazing bread.

The insults do not stop: No professional singer would think of being accompanied on the guitar; and if the instrument maintains its ground in practice at all, it is in consequence of its convenience, of fashion, and above all, of the badness of people’s e…

📚Finished Reading: Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather.

There’s a scrappy muscadine vine that grows between my neighbor’s yard and mine.

This Franscisco [Corbetta, a very important early guitarist] had just composed a sarabande which so charmed or desolated everyone, that all the guitar players in the court set about learning it, and God knows the strumming that ensued everywhere.

In my lifetime there have been two public figures who made their public lives about kindness and uniting people: Fred Rogers and Dolly Parton.

My cargo bike was stabled for several weeks waiting for parts and the time to work on it.

First day of classes, year five.

Good update on the data center situation I blogged about: just talked to my brother and it seems the township is doing a good job creating an ordinance that protects farmland and residential areas.

I got a strong whiff of the internet of my childhood from this website.

📚Finished Reading: What Art Does: An unfinished theory, Brian Eno & Bette A.

Back in the office this week.

Over the last few years I’ve developed an exercise to help make purchasing decisions.

Father Vaillant sniffed, “I noticed that scholars always manage to dig out something belittling,” he complained.

Some close-up proboscis action from the front garden.

Ordinary Saints I recently stumbled on this lovely “coffee table website.”

📚Finished Reading: Four Seasons in Rome, Anthony Doerr Lovely little memoir of a year spent on a writing fellowship in Rome with his wife and infant twins (spoiler: he didn’t get much writing done).

Twelve years.

The best part of finishing a big project: cleaning the shop.

Finally installed.