Just what I needed this morning! www.marlboromusic.org/recordings/t...

This article in “The Toronto Star” is a gift as is its author Jonathan Biss’s voice & music. Check out Jonathan Biss’s Facebook page to add YOUR VOICE to a petition. Then check out his most recent installment of Beethoven/5 and feel the ennobling power of its beauty. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Do you recognize them?

One of the Artemis astronauts stood up immediately after splashdown and started collecting his carryon bags even though he was seated in the back row of the capsule.

The words, the notes, the sound … truly beautiful & moving.

So “Cloudy with a chance of meatballs” days are coming…🥳

Good Morning, Stella!

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💙 Musicians from Marlboro! Listen/watch⬇️ or live in concert in your city. Feb 10: Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Feb 11: Washington, DC Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art Feb 13: Nov 21: New York, NY Carnegie Hall Feb 15: Brattleboro, VT Brattleboro Music Center

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Stella on Sunday

This! “Button Cake?!”- I found myself thinking. (From NYT cooking; it’s a Cranberry Curd Tart)

Recommending a couple books here: “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny”by Kiran Desai “A Month in the Country” by J. L. Carr “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah” by Charles King

Do you do this? www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Paris is where a dear college friend passed away 5 months ago. 😢😢… this week, I am beginning to replace sadness with thankfulness for ever having had her as a friend, one who knew me from a culture unfamiliar to those who surround me now. I am also grateful for dedicated musicians who give so much.

PROGRAM: 1. Britten: Phantasy Quartet, Op. 2 2. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8, Op. 110 3. Mendelssohn: String Quintet in A Major, Op. 18 Musicians: Donovan Bown, oboe; Clara Neubauer & Itamar Zorman, violin; Hiroki Kasai & Ao Peng, viola; Oliver Herbert, cello

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Wilfredo Lam at Museum of Modern Art NYC

Music, recorded and in chamber concerts, afforded me a quiet (yes, quiet) & ethereal space to process a grief after unexpectedly losing a dear college friend in late June. With music, came alive memories, even lost ones, in images & sound & meaningfulness. True gift! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Don’t let history repeat itself. Nazis banned comedians who dared make fun of them, Trump is doing the same thing today. www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...

Good article on Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

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This was taken at 6:30pm last night. This morning, there is no visibility beyond the nearest trees. I am hoping the forecasted rainstorm will come and bring an end to this historic drought.

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class. You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

fallows.substack.com/p/harvard-vs... 👍 the different narratives that different news organizations are presenting.

💙 this patch of meadow

Nearly 70% of Americans support labor unions. Why? Because more and more people know that unions ensure workers get higher paychecks, safer working conditions, and a real voice in both the workplace and our democracy. It's what every worker deserves.

saw her Carmen in the METOpera last season!

Lost to the world - mentally, temporarily, purposely.

Household electric bills are up 10% nationally since Trump took office. Meanwhile, household gas prices rose by 56%. Energy costs are set to go up more as the Trump-Republican budget bill guts clean energy projects. Remember how the entire election was about lowering prices?

Trump wants voters to believe America is ungovernable, and that the only solution is an authoritarian like him taking over. The more chaos, lies, and misinformation he spreads, the more likely people are to tune out completely.  Do not.

#Nature ☀️ #Beauty #Hope #GoodVibes

⬇️ no idea when and where it will be staged next. - No reviews so far but trust me it is a brilliant play!! - I read a book on the history of mezcal & tequila a few years ago. I had no idea that one day it would help me appreciate a play, though never the alcohol. www.wtfestival.org/main-events/...

Weird thing: I was returning a book to the library at lunch and there were canvassers out for some charity, you know the ones that try to chat as you walk by. I had the book tucked under my arm and the canvasser says “that better not be performative reading!” Folks. What is performative reading

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When bird songs fill the air, you know it is not just a break; the rain has finally stopped.

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Oh I could not decide which passage to quote! open.substack.com/pub/robertre...