V’s been in the Big Apple all weekend being cosmopolitan, and I’ve had the chance to spend some quality time blissfully alone with no agenda whatsoever. I did some chores, read a bit and ate now and then. I had a dream on Saturday morning about a man with 4 eyes; one on left side, and three on the right, stacked vertically. They all blinked at the same time, and he had four eyebrows too. This is one of my favorite dreams from the past year or two, the others being recounted here and here.

I pulled out the music stuff for the first time in a while and ended up with Glass Shoe Man, which is an exercise in temporal expansion. Everything in the piece more or less is presented in the first cycle, and from there on out it’s just adjustment of colors. One might find it tedious, but I think it’s kind of fun. The name is a pun on the last names of two composers; it’s repetitive like old school 1960’s Glass and orchestrated in the clonky and unsubtle manner of Robert Schumann.

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Finally and most joyfully, my dad is finally home after more than a week of hospitalization. Not the best way to start retired life, but I’m glad he’s on the road to recovery.