Gratitude

[Pax]

You make me smile, Oak.


I'm grateful for finally feeling a little bit at home here in FL, feeling hope about the future, and just being happy in general these days.

[emily_in_nc]

I'm grateful for finally feeling a little bit at home here in FL, feeling hope about the future, and just being happy in general these days.

Happiness is good. :-)

I too am grateful for feeling much happier than I have in months. Mexico was a fun place to visit, maybe even a good place to live one day, but not in Playa del Carmen and not now. Just happy to be living in our motorhome, in Florida, getting lots of good bike rides in, cooking fun food, and planning/doing projects, which we thrive on.

[ny biker]

I'm grateful that the heavy rain that will fall here tomorrow is not snow and ice.

Also grateful for the great deal I got on the 6-cd set of Leonard Bernstein conducting all nine of Beethhoven's symphonies plus some overtures and concertos.

[rebeccaC]

Enjoy the listening!!!!

Btw…Furtwangler, Vienna Philharmonic, Beethoven Symphony No 3……vinyl, tubed amplifier, speakers with amplified bass…..takes me to a mountain top and I see a new continent


and thank you for making me think about listening to it .....i'm happy to be home this morning

[Crankin]

NY, your comment reminded me that I guess I should be grateful to my mom for making me sit and watch every single one of those Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts in the early 60s. No one in my family was musical (though my dad did have a short lived avocation as a drummer with Geoge Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival) and I never went to Symphony Hall in Boston, as a kid. But, watching those shows got me interested in classical music. Years later, when I moved to Miami in HS, one of my teachers used to take a bunch of us to see the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra monthly. We got cheap student seats, I would get dressed up (granny dresses!) and enjoy the teeny bit of culture in that cultural desert, in 1970-71.

[OakLeaf]

I don't suppose Doug Burris was one of your teachers, Crankin?? Not sure when he started in Miami. He just passed away. I didn't know him, but a friend of mine here had been a colleague and remained friends with him.

I'm partial to von Karajan, myself. But I'm just grateful for Beethoven. And Liszt.

[Crankin]

No, he wasn't. After spending the last 8 weeks of 10th grade at a public school of 4,000 kids, I went to a teeny private school, where I had 10 kids in my graduating class. It wasn't the most selective school (too late to apply to that one, and besides could you see me at "The Everglades School for Girls?"), but we had great teachers. Most were going to grad school at night.