Musings

On Fridays and Saturdays, I teach private piano lessons at Boulevard Music on the corner Sepulveda and Culver. Come by the store and say HI! It’s pretty awesome, for all musicians but especially for guitar players. I knew right away that I would like it at this store and then I saw the piano. I grew up next to a Baldwin Acrosonic, the same piano that now sits in my home office also sits in my other office at Boulevard. That piano has been in my life since I was born. A nice bright tone with an even feel across the keys, I’m happy to be playing and teaching on this piano.

My Sunday afternoon led me to the beach. In Los Angeles the buses run on natural gas. I like to take the bus from my place to Venice beach, walk on the sand, hang out and touch the ocean. Today, I accidentally walked from the pier at Venice Beach to Santa Monica pier and back to Windward Circle for the bus ride home. There’s something really beautiful about sand sculpture and the way children and ordinary people build lovely things on the beach and then watch while the art slowly disappears back into the sand with the high tide.

Last night I watched “The Cove”. It was brilliant and heartbreaking. How can human beings treat other creatures so horribly, especially creatures with such high intelligence and a history or being generous and loving to human beings?