I had a burst of energy yesterday. I decided to go grocery shopping in the afternoon, then came home and had a real martini knowing I might pay for it today. My rash does seem more painful today but I don’t feel too bad otherwise so I guess that’s good.

I began reading the actual letters that C.P.E. Bach wrote today. I definitely get a sense of his personality from reading them. Later when I was reading Virginia Woolf’s diaries I realized how lucky I am to spend time with these people.

If I’m reading the footnotes correctly C.P.E. thought that his father’s Orgelbuchlein could be played without pedals. I tried a couple today on the piano. I didn’t find it very easy.

He also thought that the four part chorales were good teachers of counterpoint. This holds a bit more water for me. Yesterday and today I spent some time with them playing through them slowly and thinking about the voice leading and the shape of the lines.

I finished Natlie Diaz’s book of poetry, When My Brother Was An Aztec yesterday. When the Beloved Asks, “What Would You Do If You Woke Up and I Was a Shark? is an example of the great poems in this book.

How To Fight for the Freedom To Read

A librarian friend of mine put this up on Facelessbook. Good read.

Yes world, there were horses in Native culture before the settlers came – Indian Country Today

I shared this on my niece’s Facebook feed but she didn’t respond. I did not know that there were horses here before the Spanish brought them.

So I mentioned here that Meijer was out of pumpkins the day before Halloween. So I bought little ones. I didn’t help much on the trick or treating. Eileen used these little pumpkins as a bit of a decoration garnish I suppose in lieu of our usual Jack O Lanterns.

This morning I was wondering if they were edible. The Interwebs tells me they are. So I am going to cook them up.

Recipes I looked up online suggested stuffing them. I am cooking up a batch of mushrooms, onions, and garlic to stuff them with.

Plus the seeds are edible like usual pumpkins. I am planning on roasting them up as well.

I am feeling a tad better this morning. I slept hard. I also suspect that getting back to exercising is helping my over physical well being. Hey. It can’t hurt to move around.

C. P. E. Bach suffered from gout for forty years. I figure I can suffer with a rash until Monday (if not longer). I started reading C. P. E.’s letters this morning. He hated the portrait above. He said that it was “anything but a good likeness and more resembles someone sleeping than awake.”

What Can Liberals on the Supreme Court can do now by Linda Greenhouse

When dissent is all there is, Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows the way.

A Quietly Big Idea on How We Think About Homeless People by Jay Kaspian Kang

ACLU has an idea “Rather than think of homelessness as a condition, the authors argue, lawmakers should protect those who live on the street in the same way that the Constitution and California law protect groups based on race, gender or religion. The report calls for “state legislation prohibiting discrimination based on housing status.”

Time to stop and go have lunch.