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Heading into a busy long weekend… spent most of today cleaning. Oldest daughter and her boyfriend show up in 20 minutes. My sister comes in late tonight. More family tomorrow. HS grad for the middle kid tomorrow night, party on Saturday. Should be lots of fun, good food, a happy weekend.
2024 Reads: 3 Shades of Blue by James Kaplan 📚
Kaplan writes the history of bop, free jazz, and fusion through the lives of Davis, Coltrane, and Bill Evans. Wonderfully written, but such a tragic story of troubled, addicted men who somehow made such amazing music.
Quite a comeback by the Timberwolves. Denver just went cold in the third quarter and never recovered.
Things you didn’t know you needed until you heard them: a funk cover of Sandra McCracken’s We Will Feast In The House of Zion.
Pentecost: the day you realize that the only red shirt that you own is a Nebraska Cornhuskers jersey. My wardrobe still hasn’t fully adapted to being a member of a liturgical church.
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Love hockey and the Stars but glad I didn’t stay up… 9 pm Central start time and game went to 2OT!
2024 Reads: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 📚
Simple, interesting, beautiful expression of Buddhism.
One more flight to get home. In theory if I had a rental car here from ORD I could be home sooner than this flight will get me home. But that would mean driving four hours… out of Chicago… during rush hour… Instead I will sit here and eat dinner on the company dime.
2024 Reads: The Future by Naomi Alderman 📚
Not subtle, but imaginative and entertaining. Worth a read. Four stars.