Now

This is what is going on now in my life. (Updated 2025-10-18)

Current

• Learning on cello
  • Sonata in Em for Cello and Piano (Brahms)
  • Playing from lead sheets with chord names

• Adding an atom feed to this website.

On-going

• Adding to this website that you are now reading
• And I also have a rather long and busy project at work

• 2024 Jun 1: Learned (for 4 cellos) by Andrea Casarrubios
  • Performed

• 2023 Nov 4: Learned Cavatina by J. Raff
  • Performed

• 2023 Oct: Made a paver patio out back of the house under the overhang.

• 2022 Nov 6: Learned the Prologue of Debussy Cello Sonata in D Minor on the cello
  • (hear/see Sol Gabetta play it)
  • Performed (although mine is certainly not as good as Sol Gabetta's performance)

These systems are similar to habits; they are the big things I work toward regularly. I prefer systems instead of goals.

• Thinking on my major interest topics
• Encouraging the people I am connected to
• Playing cello: on pitch, lack of tension, effortless big tone, learning new music
• Consuming less sugar than my taste suggests
• Movement and exploring outside: walking, hiking, biking, kayaking
• And the regular things of life •••

These are the things that always fascinate me.

• Spirituality (immaterial aspects of life from which come value and meaning)
• Teleology (the purpose of things)
• Cosmology (the origin of things)
• Cello: my voice, beautiful melodies, delightful harmonies
• Automated control systems by computer software

(The source of the idea for the now page.)