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“I felt like a child watching a horror film.”

I did and I do, but it wasn’t I who said that. It was Christian Tetzlaff, a German violinist who is gifted in a way I’ve never encountered before in a musician, in all the years I’ve gone to concerts. … Continue reading

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Out of the crazy abyss, this (you’ll laugh)…

I pick up only peripherally on the crazy stuff Trump yammers, i.e., reading about it on BlueSky. So I did see something about Trump’s claim that USAid wastes $millions (or maybe $billions) on handing out condoms to Hamas, in Gaza. … Continue reading

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Don’t we need a belly laugh today?

Every morning I get into my digital Times and scroll, looking for something to read. The right-side op ed section was still uninviting, what with everyone writing doom-and-gloom predictions and analyses. I did not read any of them. Then I … Continue reading

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