I’ve been an absentee blogger of late.
I have been settling in however, feeling this need to finish nesting, to spend time in the final bits of getting my space in order, broken up, of course, by long bouts playing with yarn or thread, or completely new to me, pastels. Really I can think of little nicer in life at the moment than not having to account for my time.
Today, I am working on garden plans. There are areas that I cannot plant yet, areas waiting for trees, or fences. Alas these are the areas of the yard for which I also have the clearest vision. That leaves me playing with ideas on paper for the remaining areas. A task that is both important, and somewhat fruitless as well. I am the kind of person who likes to start with a plan, but I also realize that with gardening, if not all of life, those plans are always built on partial information...
So we will see how it all turns out.
As I play with paper and colored pens and pencils I am also listening to the string quartets of Grazyna Bacewicz, which I am finding fabulously beautiful and powerful. I am listening to the recording by the Silesian Quartet on Chandos, which is also available as a series of videos on YouTube. If you have any patience for mid-twentieth century string quartets, I highly recommend these, and perhaps even if they are bit of a stretch but you want to expand your horizons with something by a gifted female composer.
There is also another YouTube video here, of the Syzmanski Quartet playing the Quartet #4, from a performance in 2015. The two groups bring different insights to the piece, which is new enough to me that I am still in the process of discovery.
Hoping you all have a wonderful weekend, filled with fun and relaxation as well as a touch of discovery, perhaps.
