Today I woke with some kind of intestinal virus. YUK!!! My daughter Elizabeth has illustrated how I feel in the above drawing. It's pretty accurate. Tonight is the swim team dessert awards banquet and I hope I will be able to go. We volunteered to pick up the ice cream, but fortunately hubby has agreed to take over if I can't.
I'm sitting around in my pajamas feeling yucky. The girls walked up to the dollar store to get me a coke. That was nice.
Hope you're all having a good day....
8 comments:
Oh Rose.....
Stay home and rest!!!! I hope you feel better =0).
Love,
Mary
I'm sorry you felt badly today.
Its much later now and maybe you are better by now too! I hope so! Suz
Thanks Mary and Suzanne, still a little under the weather tonight. I ate some mac and cheese for dinner and my tummy didn't like that AT ALL. I guess I better be nice to it.
My goodness! Well, it is Sunday now and I pray that you are all better!
Suz PS I've an update on Lea and John coming now.
Maybe something was going around! I was out of commission half of Friday and most of Saturday. Thankfully the two Teds can fend for themselves, and they pretty much left me alone to mope.
How did John do at competition last week?
Ruthann
Ruthann, maybe there was. I was pretty OK 24 hours later. We went to Oberlin to pick up John Saturday and I was able to go. He did not advance to the next round, just like last year. John, as you know, plays wonderfully but he did not play flawlessly and only those who do advance. The winners were all studying at music conservatories and all were Asian. Some lived in the US but they were all Korean and Chinese. It always makes me wonder. Is it the work ethic? Are they genetically inclined to success in music? Anyway, whatever the reason they were all astonishingly good musicians. But John had a good week and learned a lot. Thnks for asking.
Regarding Asian musicians, I've heard many over the years, and they do seem to excel -- albeit, technically, not passionately.
For 20 years or so I have had a recording of Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites. I really enjoyed the recording -- it's technically perfect and precise.
My nephew, a cellist, suggested that I listen to the same music played by Pablo Cassals, his favorite cellist. When I first heard it, I cried. While it is not technically clean (there are squeaky sounds of his fingers on the strings, breathing, lots of slides in to notes, etc.), it contained the one thing that Ma's rendition did not: passion.
John plays with passion -- watching and listening to him at his recital was really moving for me. I would rather listen to music played well and with passion than technically perfect clockwork.
Ruthann
Ruthann, what an interesting comment. I asked John to read it too and I thank you for your kind words in regard to his playing. I have felt the same way but wasn't sure if maternal prejudice was coloring my impressions.
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