📚 I’ve resumed the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers. It takes place in the “Galactic Commons,” a large interspecies cooperative spread throughout the universe. Toward the end of the more human-focused book 3, Record of a Spaceborn Few, a scene made me weep. So, of course, I immediately moved on to the final book, The Galaxy and the Ground Within.
🎹 On Tuesday I became deeply interested in early Spanish keyboard music again while playing a Tiento by Francisco Correa de Arauxo. Thanks to my friend Robert, who reoriented me to this music. It’s thrilling and daunting to know I've left an entire field of organ music unexplored!
đź“… Life has returned to full tilt, and my commitment to writing this newsletter has returned with it. I do hope to start writing to you weekly again!
đź“· A final photo: a prehensile tail porcupine I saw at the St. Louis Zoo this weekend
Until next week, -David
About David Sinden
I’m David Sinden, and my whole professional life has involved playing mechanical action organs in Episcopal Churches in states that border Kentucky.
