…you can see at a glance
whether you
like them
or not.
Thomasina is beginning preparations for next week’s talks for the SSO. Weekend? What’s that? And then there’s always the day before, which she affectionately calls the pre-concert vigil.
Does she need to spend so much time crafting these things? Probably not, but there’s a perverse pleasure in it, not to mention the very great satisfaction once it’s all done.
This means that the remaining posts in November may tend to fall in the ephemeral or whimsical categories. They might even be on the short side. On the other hand, if you spot a really substantial post you can be sure that some structured procrastination is going on.
Credit to the poet and music journalist Steve Turner, whose epigrammatic “Short Poem” is quoted nearly in its entirety.