First post-Pandanmic live meeting of the
Davis Community Church Writer's Group,
and we spend time writing on the spot, inspired by a visual prompt, and the resultant writing is brilliant,
particularly Harriet's on our recent extended family trials and tribulations,
also this author checking in, producing the libretto of
San Rafael News, Op. 51 (1995)
V. Life Span
Elephants 70 years
Dogs 18 years
Cats 14,
Horses 20 years
Whales 50 years
Carp 30
Gupies 5 years
Eagles, Owls, and Parrots 60 years
Parakeets 12 years
Box Tortoises 100
Giant Tortoise 200
Redwood Trees 3,000 years
Creosote Bush
Every higher organism has a species charactristic average lifespan
that is defined and limited by the best intrests in species survival
that is defined and limited by the best intrests in species survival
For an adult planet or animal to live forever after procreation
it would dplete the food supplies and then jeopardize the species survival
it would deplete the food supplies and then jeopardize the species survival
Immortality would halt the process of the natural selectivity
which is the major instrument in adaption for all species survival
which is the major instrument in adaption for all species survival
Mortal generations have superior adaption via sexual means,
than an immortal populace for the challenges of species survival
than an immortal populace for the challenges of species survival.
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which, as with Harriet's,
turns out to be very well received...
On the initially inclement
33rd day of summer,
high again 55
(3rd day in a row -- with Davis, 56).
Morning
Choir
rehearsals and
service,
at the
Church,
including a reading from Matthew 5: 13-20, 43-46 (Salt and Light, Love for Enemies)
corresponding to
V. The Salt of the Earth
After a perceptive Eunbee Ham Sermon, the Chancel Choir performing
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Geistliches Lied (1856)
Communion,
featuring the Chamber Choir in
Brian Lewis (b. 1970)
Benedictus (2004)
Blessing, and
Postlude
graced by an organ version of
Benedetto Marcello (1685-1739)
O Lord How Excellent (c. 1716)
there's coffee again with Interrim Pastor Derek Austin (who checked out the Zoom Opus 96) --
a delightful time!
Homeward
via
a
clearing
I-80
southwest.
Bizarrely
Harriet and my phones both lose their ability to make calls,
so we hightail it to
AT&T,
and pretty much derive no satisfaction.
While they don't let on, we pretty much figure out that it is our entire neighborhood that has temporarilly lost service.
In other regions, we can clearly talk, and a side benefit it catching up with John Browning, as we make our way back to the
DCC
Writer's Group (preceded by Session).
Later,
return
in
darkness,
detoured by
supplies.
Another welcome
Family Zoom
soon
follows.
produce a new edition of the piano-reduction re
Antigone, Op. 88 (2000)
Overture
Honegger Orchestrations, Op. 370 (December 12, 2021)
For Voice and Orchestra
3 Psalms (1941)
Psalm 36
Psalm 140
on the Complete Works site
https://markalburgerworks.blogspot.com/2021/12/honegger-orchestrations-op-370.html
in a swirl of media entailing
a playback of the Chinese spy balloon shooting,
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Mother Goose (1910)
The Dick Van Dyke [b. 1925] Show (1961)
2. XXVIII. Divorce (1963)
Nature (1982)
40. III. The Elephant and the Termite
and
Symone Sanders (b. 1989)...