Jam-packed activity here.

This morning John drove Keoni to a train station where Keoni did a Hollywood sprint to catch the train. Yes, it really did leave at 6:51 a.m! A successful boarding took him to orchestra practice in Philly's center city. The solo train trip was a first for him this second PYO practice. Later in the morning Wendy and John drove with Aidan to purchase his full-size cello; also, city center. The four managed some sort of cosmic (or comic?) convergence for lunch.

Keoni took another train to his violin lesson and wound up on West Butler instead of East Butler but somehow managed to reverse his mistake and arrive at his lesson late, but in luck that Mr. de Pasquale's next lesson was a cancel so they went right ahead anyway and were only half way through when I got there to pick up Keoni. I was invited into the lesson in the friendliest manner, and was duly impressed with what was taking place. de Pasquale has a deep wealth of understanding, experience, and a congenial way of fine-tuning Keoni's technique. It was wonderful to watch and listen. Remarkable, too, was how much de Pasquale reminded me of Phil. Keoni has had the same impression.

So what was happening in my day? It may sound mundane, but my contributions were the family laundry and shopping my favorite route along the farm markets on Allentown Road. We have a goodly stock of our own fresh food in the kitchen again after the extra work of the school gardening that took up this week's mornings. Wendy seems to have shed the worst of her cold. The best part of the day was Keoni's lesson, and later at home Aidan trying out five different bows for the cello. Who knew bows could sound so very different.

Ah, but weariness caught up with me and Keoni who fell asleep sprawled across his bed when we got home. I was so glad to hear Wendy, John and Aidan had eaten along the way. Later, I went by myself to a little Italian restaurant not too far away and had a satisfying plate of spaghetti and a salad. Enjoyed the comfort of the food and service. Nice.

It is raining again this evening. I think that there will be some cooler weather behind it.