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Increasing Loveliness
The Chiara String Quartet and Dave Hall “There’s a way of playing safe… and there’s the way I like to play which is dangerously – where you’re going to take a chance on…
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What a Difference a Day Makes
Matters of Perspective For some today brings feelings of elation. For many, the day brings feelings of almost total devastation. Individual matters of perspective are at work. For me, on this exquisite autumn…
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Party Like It’s 1909
for Halloween… Jude and I were recent guests of the gifted hosts, (and our very dear friends,) Diane and Howard Coffin. They held a dinner party for 14 at the historic Brandeis Mansion…
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Standing at the Edge
Some things we love almost too much, don’t we? We are struck stupidly silent by our own fascination. We are so close to some things we love that describing them, well – our…
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The Beginning of Something
Late summer’s shadows and light fall distinctively. Their angles start to sharpen keenly around the middle of August, and they are deeply ingrained as portents from childhood. In their way, shadows provide a…