It is a beautiful Sunday morning in Carlsbad. I am feeling serene.
This place is really starting to feel like home.
Last evening I walked over to Catalina Hall at around 7:00pm for a youth concert performed by some gifted young musicians from the Balboa Park youth music program. They had performed last year in Beijing and Shanghai. They were very good. I asked one of the musicians if she had heard of the Sierra Academy of Music. She said she would look into it! She would be in their league.
Ethel Iverson came over and introduced me to her friends. You meet new people easily here, as everyone is very outgoing. A room full of people interested in classical music performed by young musicians has to be a kind of filter. After the concert I went up to trolly stop and waited until a charming young woman picked us up in an electric golf cart kind-of-thing that holds eight people. She was asked how she liked the night shift. She said it was working on Saturday that she didn't care for so much, but was very cheerful anyway. She dropped me off at the closest possible spot to "home". The residents are very interested in their staff, from the gardeners to the waiters to the bus drivers to the cleaning crew. The staff are hand picked and I have not yet seen a rude or surly worker here.
I have been enjoying a History of Scotland series by the BBC. It gives us a glimpse of history from the Scottish point of view. Coincidentally, they have a series playing here every Saturday morning on Medieval England. They mentioned the great masterpiece of the pre historical era of the northlands of Europe. Beowulf. I have read it four times. I will try to find the translation theyrecommend. Surprisingly, I learned that the invasion of William the Conqueror in 1066 was from a territory in France that had been settled by men from the north. Scandinavians! By then they all spoke French, but genetically were not so different perhaps.
I have also been reading a glossy info-magazine "The Power of Exercise" which presents the latest findings on the subject. Turns out that running is NOT bad for your knees! And other encouraging new findings. I am motivated!
Hope you are all well and happy. Please let me know how you are if I haven't heard from you in awhile. Jane? Nancy? Ian?
Love to all, Val
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