Jeff
@jepaco
Literature +Opera+LeftPolitics+GoodFood+Travel 🏳️🌈
We have wildfire smoke for the fifth day now, but the air quality index is down from “hazardous” to “unhealthy for sensitive groups” The photo was before sunset last evening where we would normally have seen the sun
We saw those in Maui too! So pretty. I can’t remember now what it was. We’re staying in Michigan and had a pileated woodpecker in our yard today - similar coloring
Good morning from the Adler Planetarium in Chicago Heat wave is beginning - already 80° F / 27° C at 7:00 am
Day so far: 1 - dentist appt 2 - Chicago Cultural Center 3 - Art Institute National Treasures of Korea exhibit 4 - Dame Myra Hess concert, Lucas Amory, piano
I’m in a haze of enchantment, having just finished reading the marvelous book “Memoirs of Hadrian” by Marguerite Yourcenar.
Just finished reading the astonishing and magnificent translation by Daniel Mendelsohn of The Odyssey
Trio Eris - outstanding concert today in the Dame Myra Hess series of daily free concerts, held at the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist
There was a guy in the Plaza Jardin Centenario in CDMX doing a Sprechstimme rendition of “Baby Come Back” and “Hotel California”
Guatemala is fabulous. Here’s the lounge at the Posada, where I am sitting right now. It’s open to the air on the side from which the photo is taken.