I woke up this morning even earlier than planned and sat in my tatami room, enjoying the excess of time. Outside my window, the blossoms were glowing in the morning light and I simply couldn't let the moment go. Someday I will advance to that level, but for the fortune of the future and those who could not be there, I my desire to cling to the moment....
Riding the train to HPAC today felt like an ascent through the clouds. But they are here on earth with us. Incredible.
We returned to HPAC to play our final children's concert for a full auditorium of children and parents. Not so many amusing T-shirts, but one gentlemen pulled out Japanese baseball bats as his instrument for My Grandfather's Clock. He pounded the small plastic bats together, helping coordinate the 2000 person orchestra of recorders and melodicas like a well seasoned baseball fan chanting for the home team. The kids were still cute. And the parents were so touching in the way that they watched them learn something for the first time, their attention upon these youth like a cat watching birds outside the window. Nothing could pull them away.
And then this evening I hosted another okonomiyaki party but this time upgraded with chamber music! The okonomiyaki were incredible and even though we started playing later in the evening, the music was great. Couldn't get to it all. So many great things to see, to do, to experience, to eat (!) in life. It was a great day, great evening and now, ready for bed....
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| before the mixin' began |
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| fetching an okonomiyaki from the pan (and all the fixings on the table) |
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| flippin' skills |
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| preparing another (and another and another......) |
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| saucing and slicing, mmmmm |
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| one of our bassoonists |
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