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September 30, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
There has been times throughout the years where I have made a blog entry saying that today was a lost day with no recollection of what happened and feeling like I did nothing. That is how this month of September feels. Its like the month never happened. I know there were a few days where the temperatures went down and I became alive, went out with the Traveling Piano truck to work and then that passed. The rest of the month was over a hundred five every day. It is what it is. I've been creating and filing a data base of Mo photos, intensely doing that. The work is tremendously complex as I must create every aspect and scenario possible so that I can find what I need when needed. This is the time because when he passes I do not know if I will be able. When I first began doing it sadness would envelope me. Then I thought, when you have a good time do you look back on it with sadness? Good memories are to use in order to feel good in the present! To compare them to what we do not have now... what a loser mentality that is.
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September 29, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
I am to meet with a guy next week interested in exploring the possibilities for a nationally syndicated news article. In a past life I would say "newspaper" article but today everything is almost all online. My mind has been exploring the different focuses of what a news article could have. About me personally, the truck story itself, Mo and Bo, the future, etc... I have always had an intense desire to share what I have to offer and there are so many aspects of my life to share. The typical Traveling Piano story spin, I really have no interest in because it has already been done over and over. People used to say that I should remember that I am more than just the Traveling Piano. Well, I am much more complex. What makes the Traveling Piano work is a swirling collage of much more than just a guy who plays piano in the back of a pickup truck. The makeup is intensely phycological.
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September 28, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaThe heat was brutal today. But, my friend Trudy was having a fundraiser for her small non-profit called the Compassionate Initiative. She helps people living on the streets and I really wanted to lend support. That meant getting up at 7:30am. I figured Mo and I could spend a few hours in the shade before the temperature reached a hundred. It reached one hundred and ten today heading into October! She gave the wrong address so it began with racing all around Las Vegas until I called and found out the correct address, ugh. Anyway, we lasted a little more than an hour and a half with the Traveling Piano. Even though it was only ninety five degrees I could not take it any more. Mo too... too much. We got home and both collapsed. it needs to be under 90 for us to be out anymore. I remember the old days when cold was the issue not hot and I set the temperature limit at 49. Now we can work between fifty and eighty nine, a forty degree window. This, because of our age and health. 
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September 27, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
It got so damm hot again! In the hundreds all week. We have friends who are beasties and Mo and I hung out at their place a few days ago before they left on a trip. Mo stayed inside to get away from my anxiety and the heat while I floated in a backyard pool. It was an absolutely perfect day in every way. Mo's just tired and weak but seems comfortable... we can live with that. I've been living so in the moment in my life that I only realize it when a commitment happens. A commitment, anything scheduled in my life is now so out of my comfort zone that it creates major anxiety. That is ridiculous I know but it is the truth. Living in the moment is truly the way to go in life. Sometimes I think that I am so lucky to be able to do it but then again... this is what I have chosen for my life. I've created the fact. Although it isn't always great, it is what it is. |
September 26, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
Continuation... I did not get her name nor her brothers or any of them. Maybe she did not believe the story from her parents and I served as validation. How knows? I told them how I am getting ready to let Mo pass on now with age, and how he came to me through the gratitude I had for Boner and my letting go of him in gratitude. How I feel Bo's energy reincarnated into Mo but it is not something we can fully grasp nor should we. Not sure why that came into the interaction. So, it was all amazing... my life has been full of amazing spiritual synchronicity and spontaneity. Another phrase I used over and over in the conversation was "remember to remember" gratitude. This, to remember the spirituality in our lives and that we are simply spirit manifest. Damm, I wish I had asked why they wanted to connect so strongly. I suppose that I am a living connection to the boy. Now I need to just let this go and not make something of it. It is what is it, just some spiritual validation and reassurance. But, I did want to put that in this blog because the experience exemplifies my life and the Traveling Piano journey. Lastly, the craziest thing here about this story... it all happened 21 years ago!!! They called me, a stranger from twenty one years ago. |
September 25, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
Continuation... As I was about to leave a car appeared coming in the opposite direction. I stopped it and through the window asked if they we're the parents of the boy who died in an accident on the street a few weeks back. They said yes, this was the first opportunity they had to come to the spot. We all got out of the car. They told me of how he had just moved away from home for the first time a few days before. I told them what I had seen in detail to help give them some closure. Also, it was apparent that their son wanted them to know from me that they are loved and that everything is ok with him, not to worry. They broke down crying. Lots of gratitude overflowed onto the situation and that was it. End of story until... his sister called tonight. I was put on speaker phone and the four of us and I recounted the story for them. His sister was young at the time and tomorrow she was to graduate with a masters degree in nursing the next day. Continued... |
September 24, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
Continuation... One day, while driving down the road I witnessed an overturned jeep accident and the covering of someone's body who had died. I said a prayer in that moment asking for God to take care of them. Through the next couple weeks everytime I passed the area I would see activity related to the incident. About a week later police were marking the area and I thought, why now as it had been a week? Another time there we're three kids standing at the spot, one with a guitar as though they were creating a eulogy memorial. There were a couple other times as I thought in a twenty four hour day I would drive by at those moments. Then an incredibly significant time happened. It was the last on the matter. I was drawn to notice a car making a right turn onto a road that led to a church parking lot at the spot. I though... "thats his parents". After about a mile and a half of driving onward I thought, "you need to go back". I turned around and drove back and there was no car there. Continued... |
September 23, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
After several hours of frustration with cox internet about not being able to get online and feeling full of angst, the second I hung up the phone, it rang. An unknown number from Chambersburg PA was calling. This is a town where the majority of my phone spam originates. Never do I answer. I simply block the numbers when they stop ringing. Something made me pick up today. It was the first time I ever did that. I think I was hoping it was cox with a solution calling from Chambersburg? Fat chance. A woman began prepping me about how random the call would seem. She had been searching for a long time to find me on the internet. I began to think it was someone wanting to book me for a job as it is not unusual for someone to connect from the past hoping I am still doing what I do. The call was not work related. She said she found my number from the website. She must have been digging deep from the website into online articles, etc... to find the number or found a cached page from long ago. They asked if I was that guy with the truck and piano and my pup Boner. She brought up a synchronistic happening many years ago. Continued...
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September 22, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
Mo and I we're out doing our thing for a short while tonight with the Traveling Piano. He has not jumped into the truck and onto the piano in a while. I help him up and down. It is getting more difficult for him to turn around on the piano concerning his balance. The reason to have everyone updated here is because I realize many people have a history with Mo and we are in a relationship together through our journey. I feel as though everyone deserves to be in the loop as to what is going on. Also, I realize that I will truly need my facebook friends support in keeping the situation upbeat with a focus on gratitude, appreciation, fun, and living in every moment. He's not dead, right? I do not want either of us to live in the projection of that. He might last another year, who knows? That is what happened last year, right? That was just as bleak in a different way and he came around. There is no question about his being content and happy right now... his spirit has always demanded that first and foremost since day one. |
September 21, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaI want to stay calm about the fact that I woke up in the middle of the night with the bed sheet soaked in liquid and blood. Mo has been having an internal cough and gag for months now. Checked his teeth, they showed no signs of bleeding... there is really nothing to be done considering his age except to keep him comfortable and communicate that everything is ok. He was concerned with messing the bed. I may take him into the doctor for a look see on Tuesday when the office opens. It has been almost a year since two vets suggested I put him down and here we are. Living life with uncertainty is such a challenge. I keep telling myself I will live on when he goes. 
His feel, our tactile life together wow, maybe I'll need to get a stuffed animal or something to cuddle and sleep with, run to when I am feeling crazy. The sense of security he supplies for me is almost... everything, in keeping me sane in life. And then there is the companionship. I'll just stay grateful in knowing what I have been having in life through and with him. And before anyone gets started on "you'll get another, another will come your way, etc..." just no. Please never go to that space when someone is living and grieving. The word respect comes to mind. It would 100% not be possible anyway with my present living situation. Mo and I may go out later today with the Traveling Piano and just continue living life together to the fullest in joy and playful happiness. |
September 20, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaNothing was getting done, I needed a shower but thought I'd just drive to the homeless area with the Traveling Piano, no shower needed. I know thats awful but it is what it is. First I went to Formaster street where the homeless are corralled into. They have a new city homeless propaganda complex where the government can claim it cares. It does not. It simply does what it can to cover its ass while using those homeless to money launder. I was looking for information to help register those on the streets to vote. The bureaucracy for that is the same as for getting any help. A person needs to sign up with the city, they do checks, appointments are needed for health service evaluations, what for those results, physical appointments, wait, blah... blah... blah. No wonder there are so many people on the streets. 
In appointments alone, it is ridiculous to think someone scrounging around on the street can keep track of time and appointments and arrange to get to them. The street... in past years before the city took control I used to play with the Traveling Piano on it. The trash is disgusting. Where are people supposed to put their food trash? It should be cleaned everyday but that service is only for the streets outside the area to hide reality. Mo and I headed over to another old area of ours on a hill across from the Salvation Army. We met some old friends, made some new friends. My care, compassion, empathy, understanding and knowledge of what it is to be homeless was rekindled. People just want to be loved. Some people need to be loved and also cared for. I am in the later category. But for the grace of God I am cared for... just enough, never too much. |
September 19, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
Met a Las Vegas artist with his friend as they were walking around in the Downtown Arts District. They had their heart logo and a paint stick hanging with tea shirt "seconds" they we're giving out freely to people, just because. He said he has given about 600 out to date. Of course some Traveling Piano fun was to be had. Also, people are thrilled to se us out and about. I am always astounded with the respect and love people have for the Traveling Piano and everything about it. A homeless guy who has not seen us in about five years came up with a big hug. I found about ten large bags of jelly beans from Easter that forgot about and were in the bottom of my closet. They are to share with everyone one the streets. It does not matter if they are hard now because people with no teeth or bad teeth can use them to suck on. The gesture of giving and sharing is most important anyway.
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September 18, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
Feels good to get going again here in Las Vegas. Mo and I barely made it through the heat. Now to get the truck back into shape for travel! There was a lot happening with what the The Traveling Piano is about today Downtown on Main Street in front of District Coffee... Musical Fun, Friendship and Respect with the Idea of Strangers Becoming Less Afraid of Each Other and without fees, tips or commercial affiliation! I just love it when strangers come together for an intimate person experience. I'll need to be very careful with my health, take the truck out towards the end of the day as even in the 90's is now too hot for both Mo and myself. Even the 80's in direct sun is too much.
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September 17, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
The temperature has dropped. I almost forgot what 70 degrees feels like. Last night I wore a coat when walking Mo. Thank God we got through the summer, barely. Feeling too weak, I asked a neighbor to cary the piano and speaker down to the truck for me. I put it all in pushing away fear and it worked. The heat shut me down for over a month. The electrical equipment, piano, speaker, inverters stopped working. I'm using my spare keyboard as the heat destroyed the other. The spare has some permanent heat damage, it is what it is. I am coming to terms with the fact that nothing is ever going to be the way it was in the past and probably will not improve. I was able to climb into the truck from the side, did not think physically I was going to be able to do that. A new neighbor came over to say hello. We are connected on Instagram. I've no clue who I am connected to online. Mo is hanging in, he gets carried around a lot now. Carried into and out of the truck, onto the piano and down, etc... Onward, yes it did feel good to get back into the saddle so to speak.
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September 16, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaThrough a religious traveling hospitality book I used a couple times when traveling I found probably the most severe religious family in existence! Lol, the wife was giving, the husband a threateningly strict, pentecostal whatever. Every word out of his mouth was full of directive fear, domination and authoritarianism. I think he had major fear and mistrust of me. They had two kids, one I could tell was homosexual and learned a few years later he had moved out and found his life as needed. I had gone to a church service with them all as the father spoke in tongues while running around the church in full blown screaming mode. There was one other evangelical extreme that I stayed with. 
The husband was also mistrusting in a way of testing to see if I was aligned with the devil or not. But, he did not have as much control over his authoritarianism because he was a paraplegic in a wheelchair and dependent as a result. His wife was submissively loving and gave me their B&B cabin to use. It was very comfortable and rejuvenating. They too had a son who had difficulty in coping with life. For sure, it was as a result of the father and the religious pressures he had to live with. He had also connected me a few years later while living in a van on the streets. No other contact was made with either of these kids. Thank God my upbringing was not so severe as to what these kids had to go through. And the courage for them to detach from it all... just, bravo! Religious extremism kills. |
September 15, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
While in Joplin, Missouri after the tornado, I found a couple through a religious traveling hospitality book who owned a huge farm that grew corn. They could not have been more right wing politically and as religious in the same way. They were friendly, gave me a place to stay fed me what they ate. I spent some time with them watching Fox news on television which I was unfamiliar with at the time. It was then I learned how that news source uses propaganda for republican agenda to gaslight people's brains. As the news hosts would ridicule and lie about political opponants, the couple sat on either side of me chuckleing with eyes shifting back and forth in trying to feel me out to see if I was on their team or not or would show signs of rejection. I certianly was not going to fake anything and it was most difficult to keep a straight face of civility through it all. They did what they did for Jesus, not through Jesus, for Jesus. There is a difference,
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September 14, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaI have stayed with people on this journey who have shocked me with amazing caring, consideration and kindness. Never will I forget my run cross country to Virginia Tech when the school asked me to lend support after the gun slaughter there. A guy I connected with in Texas insisted I stay with him and take his bed while he took to his couch so that I could get the best rest possible. I met his friends the next day, we all created music and there are not many times in my life when I have felt so loved, embraced and made to feel like part of a family in less than twenty four hours. At another time, I stayed with a guy while in Joplin, Missouri after the tornado destroyed a large part of the city. He was totally reluctant to have me there and was a musician who collected player pianos. 
There was an airplane hanger size storage area for them all connected to his huge house. The entire front of his property, and it was large, had a lake created in the shape of a grand piano including the piano keys. His girlfriend insisted he allow me to stay as a proof of his willingness to connect with new people and to allow some trust into his life in order to stay in their relationship. He was not a happy pup and full of mistrust, as anal as can be. I was so uncomfortable I peed in the bed during my sleep. In the morning I made the bed hoping it would dry without a stain and before anyone found out. I packed up my things and got out of there quick! |
September 13, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaI seem to catch the tail end of everything never experiencing the full monty, just the tail end which for the most part has been enough in my life. Well, I've created my own start of something with this Traveling Piano and have grown with it and... it is my own creation and doing totally. But still, I would like to connect in partnership and make it the best it can be before it all ends. Maybe that has already happened or will also come at the tail end once again. When traveling through the years, along with motels, there were organizations I had joined like Servas that manifested after WWII as a way to reconnect with people traveling world wide in relationship. It was all about unconditional hospitality. 
It is still around but nothing close to its original mission. I personally think the organization is now corrupt but still has some great members. Sort of like religions who have some great members but the church structure, rules and hierarchy suck. There was also couch surfing. That greedy AirB&B founder joined the site and began to poach members who responded to greed and destroyed the organization in several ways to make it implode from the inside out in order to build his AirB&B business. I used Homestay, and there was a Christian travelers organization I used a few times. Not too many friends or friends of friends and then there were people I met randomly who simply took us in. |
September 12, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaI have been feeling the urge to write out some of the crazier overnight situations throughout the journey that I've said nothing about. Now matter how inconvenient, none considerate, whatever agenda or self-centered a person had been, they invited my pup and I into their homes as strangers. That willingness to share and give hospitality alone got them a free pass in my book concerning whatever character defects they may have had. And, most of them we're short stays anyway. 
I learned how to acclimate myself to whatever situations or needs a host had in most all of my past connections. I found people through friends, at one time there we're hospitality organizations that worked. Those organizations we're at the tail end of their purposes having moved away from original missions. As times changed people began to mis-use them, they became restrictive, less trustworthy, hosts became more conditional and adapted a "whats in it for me" mentality. As a result, I caught the tail end of really good opportunities to create relationships and also sadly, witnessed the implosion of the sources for those relationships. |
September 11, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaOnce upon a time Mo and I stubbled across a place in Utah while just driving down a deserted road exploring. It is called Crystal Geyser and has been on my brain as of late. I just remember how vivid the colors were. To find places like this in the middle of nowhere with nothing around, no restrictions, no people has been such a gift. As time goes on, these kind of places become more known and domesticated, trashed, crowded with tourists... throughout this journey I have truly lucked out. Traveling and finding places without looking and it synchronistically being in off seasons or bad weather, not promoted and through the grace of God, I have had so many experiences in nature such as this. And to share it with Mo has just been awesome. 
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September 10, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
This is Mo's by my side look right now after I became ill and went to sleep for 30 straight hrs... (did get up once to take him out & to feed) and then followed that with... being up and about for two full days, no sleep at all. In getting back to normal now Mo is asking... we good?
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September 09, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
While looking back into this blog mostly to see photos I notice how often I have written about the need for funding and where can I stay needs while traveling. I've put myself through hell in this "free spirited" adventure, lol. When I've been "in" what ever I know I am feeling it but to busy dealing with it to wallow. Now it is about health, physical limitations, worldly problems and issues. There will always be one thing or another. The truck and equipment needs... that has always been an issue from the start and ever so slowly slipping into oblivion. That... I've written about, feel and know consciously all the time. Its now looking like an old piece of shit is a reminder in every moment of how everything was so much easier when it was a showpiece, ran strong and efficiently and I had a place to store it that kept it that way. Financially, I am just getting by but "just" and that is because with the heat I've not had gas expenses and have not been going anywhere.
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September 08, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
My days are mixed up just a little. I got sick, lost a day and thirty hours later when I woke up... stayed up for two days with no sleep! That has never happened before in my life. It has been very weird. Mo and I went over to our friends Eric and Mary's house to spend time in their backyard pool. I told myself... "do not be afraid" of going through the day without having had any sleep. When I finally pass out tonight I wonder how long I will need to sleep. It is nine at night and finally, that is about to happen... pass out time. It is what it is.
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September 07, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
There was no today in consciousness for me. I slept through the entirety of it, thirty hours in total. Except to get Mo outside for a poop and pee and some food. What a crazy feeling to lose an entire day. I do feel better but all around not so great. Age, being overweight, the heat... over 110º for what it feels like forever and living in such a small stuffy room, world in general is wearing me down. I do my best with meditation and thank God for Mo. He gets me out walking "for him" everyday. With food and exercise to be in shape, I just refuse to restrict myself and suffer and so I accept the consequences because there is no motivation or desire to do otherwise. I think what brought this on is the school gun slaughter in Georgia. Everytime something like this happens, everyone including myself, we all go through once again consciously but more, unconsciously the trauma, sadness, suffering, republican lack of respect for human dignity even that of our own children by switching to fucked up dysfunctions through gun ownership protection verses love, care, empathy and compassion. |
September 06, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
A condition health that I have, has never been diagnosed and comes a couple times a year is happening. My entire "being" shuts down physically, mentally and spiritually. It hit suddenly last night in the middle of the morning as I was walking Mo. I became more than tired and my mind was foggy. Then, I snuck into my apartment complex pool (middle of the night) hoping to refresh myself. Came inside my room and the chills hit. I still have some meds left from ten years ago, The are what is left from my last visit with Dr. Dibello who has since passed, my life long doctor who took me out of my mothers womb. New doctors in todays world will not renew the drug concoction I need as they do not know my history. All they know is what is in the medical systems (mostly wrong) from the last five years when I entered that mess. My health doctoring has been "old school" for my entire life except for the last five years. I had been able to avoid the "system" hell that is today's health system. The meds being so old, I had to take two doses as the potency of them is weak. |
September 05, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaI have been going through my past life like crazy. Mostly the enjoyment, feelings, experiences and wonders from early childhood until now, just wow. When I go through any given month on this blog from the last almost 20 years, I am just blown away by my story in just places and pictures alone. I've seen some beautiful nature. I thank God for that. My life experiences also have been pretty well transparent as well all except for the negatives interactions with people who I've stayed with. My spin to the positive with everything and avoidance of negativity while on the road in my writing has been really good. 
Of the hundred and fifty or so people I have stayed with, there have been some really crazy, frustrating and even nasty experiences. Now that some of those people are dead and few people read blogs like mine anymore, I am going to begin adding some antidotes to this journeys story. While some of the "crazy" is still in my life, and I love and appreciate them along with their "crazy," I will not be writing about them through respect and I do not want to embarrass them. Some things are better left unsaid. The world does not need to know "everything" about and in personal relationships. |
September 04, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
AI will never be able to take in the idiosyncrasies of unique personal, individual communication that can only be learned, appreciated and embraced through time and one-on-one in human relationship. So it will have to teach all humans how to express themselves and relate to each other in order to manipulate and control them under the guise of "better" "easier" "quicker" when it is really for self-serving efficiency and the need of a few until... it also takes over those few. Do not think anything you create using AI is the real you, that would be a false. Unfortunately most people will not care about true or false anymore because... AI will be directing their thought process just as propagandists, dictators, fake evangelicals and authoritarians do.
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September 03, 2024Las Vegas, Nevada
Human growth and progress happens through trial and error. Human free will and choice lay in trial and error. AI without our realizing is removing all possibility for human error. This, as it takes control of free will, human choice and response-ability. You must stay aware and learn to detach from AI when possible. It may soon remove our "truth in spirit." Spirit communicates through our mind and feelings. AI dictating, controlling and manipulating how we react, think and feel will be the end of humanity. Respect your humanity with gratitude and appreciation. It is God given. Our humanity allows for the experience of joy with each other and for the removal of all suffering. While both God and AI are powers greater than ourselves, choose God how ever you understand God over AI before AI removes all personal understanding. |
September 02, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSomething amazing happened for me. I do not know of anyone who could appreciate it. I wrote about this before, about back when I created a symbol of freedom from the first twenty years of being in shackles with the need to perform from memorized sheet music. I loosely threw all my music sheets into the back of the Traveling Piano truck bed and drove down the highway while watching it all blow away. My life was now all about musical improvisation. Most of the sheet music was one of a kind not to be found again. About ten years later I was thinking about how playing some of that music for those who can only respond to familiarity, that could build a bridge to acceptance. Of course, with little memory most all of that old repertoire disappeared from head. I really beat myself up over that, "what a fucking idiot I was." I began to search online, in person, in large city library backrooms, stores, through collectors, teachers... I even reached out to Claude Bolling in France for his arrangement of the Harlen Strut that I used while never thinking he would still be alive. He was, and his people sent me the arrangement I needed, what a gift that was! 
 There are many arrangements of the music pieces but I need my specific arrangements. There is no way I have the means to memorize anything new at this point or in a different way. So little by little over a period of ten years, never giving up I have found most all except for three pieces. For the last two months obsessed, I have been searching on Ebay. Then the other day I was reading my Ebay messages (never, ever do that) because a seller had screwed me with a counterfeit item I purchased and am disputing. I saw a message that drew my attention. About a month ago I had contacted a seller asking them if a music book they we're selling had an arrangement in it for the Soda Fountain Rag. This was the first piece of music that Duke Ellington ever wrote. They never got back to me and I forgot about it. An then today I saw they did send a message. It was a few weeks after my request and with an apology for being so late. Along with the note they sent a few snap shots... of the arrangement I have been looking for! Ebay had not sent the message to my in-mail box. So happy, so happy! What a fluke, what are the chances I would go into my Ebay message box and see it with hundreds of other messages there. What timing, what an answer to the St. Anthony prayer I sent up into the heavens last night! |
September 01, 2024Las Vegas, NevadaI sort of had a small hope that somehow by magic, the temperatures would change with today being September 1st. Nope. It will be 110º or above for the entire week where I am. When the heat came back on in May, I wondered how we would get through the summer. Well... its almost done and we just barely made it. Mo and I are now old gents. Not only is the stamina and strength much less than in the earlier days, our health is not so great. Most people could not possibly know how much strength and stamina work with the Traveling Piano takes. Creating and sharing resources with the homeless, that also is amazingly draining. 
 Just playing the piano as a pro is exhausting. It is not like I can sit and just putter along. I must deliver strong, passionate and hard at all times. Especially when in communication with people just talking. Puttering leads to weakness, non-convincing clarity and lack of attention. And then also, jumping in and out of the truck every time someone wants to have a hand at the piano, doing that in of itself is physically exhausting. I've often said, the talking with people drains more than the creating music for them. |