I’ve been practicing a lot with my camera during the last week. It’s still not a great camera, and I still don’t have much of an eye for anything, but I can make it do what I want it to do in a lot of cases. After all of that practice, I present two pictures…
Author: Backpacking Dad
Heart on a G String
Today is Johannes Sebastian Bach’s 326th birthday. I often think of Bach’s music as mathematical, precise, clinical, and light. But there is one piece he wrote that holds its own with even the heady romanticism of Beethoven: “Air on a G String.” Do you know it? You probably do. Here is a video of Japan’s…
What Should We Call the 2010’s?
Although my suggestion for “Naughties” for the years 2000-2009 never caught on during the actual decade (I still have hopes for retroactive adoption), there is still time to give our current decade, 2010-2019, a name. So, here’s my suggestion: The Teenies. 2010 would just be known as Teeny. 2011 would be Teeny-one, 2012 would be…