__ New Year

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die...
A time to weep, and a time to dance...
~King Solomon/Ecclesiastes 3

It's hard to fill in the blanks this year. I was at the Esplanade last night and the contrast was evident. Party goers with party hats, horns, and confetti-expelling cans turned up by the thousands. 600 miles from where I am, 80,000 Indonesians are dead, many more elsewhere. Millions are displaced. It's difficult to make sense of things. Hope the new year will be better for everyone...

Corrinne May was great, I guess if she didn't exist, someone would surely put together the frequencies and invent the same voice, it's really quite special. I'm going again tonight...

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