I met with my piano teacher who lives in Lansing on Tuesday afternoon. It was the first time that I had had a lesson with my piano teacher in twenty months because I had been pinned down at my home in Georgia by the great pandemic. And it warms my heart that my piano teacher told me that he has seen a tremendous amount of growth in my musicianship in the past twenty months. I played a composition for him by Handel and he praised it. And he said that as far as he was concerned that I had passed that piece and could check it off.

The difference between a meadow and a field. The field –having grown up on a farm — a field to me is where you plant your crops, or let your wheat grow, a field is more like a work environment, and a meadow is more like play I guess. It’s kind of — it’s untilled, unspoiled. You kind of think of of the scene on Little House on the Prairie where Laura is just running down the hill, all fun and all that in the field and that kind of thing. A meadow is more relaxed, more kick back, more mellow. And a field is more for work. So, meadow fun, field work. Meadow fun, field work.