Constantly, there is a thread of despair in my life based on trying to fit everything I am interested in learning into one lifetime. I have to decide what cannot have my time! That is difficult!
Retiring is something that would begin yesterday if I could.
Yes, I am one of those crazy people that has many passions in life. I would spend all my time researching my family tree extensively traveling to ancestral lands and graveyards. There's one lifetimes work, maybe two. Early american history is a passion and I read everything I can get my hands on that's new and well researched. Having to decide on a time period, about 1600-1850, was difficult, but necessary. Now, I have to reduce that even more because of time restraints!
I'm a professional, classical trumpet performer and teacher. This low paying occupation requires long hours of life long practicing to keep my skills at the highest level. Are you beginning to see the problem here!!!
The good news, I'm NEVER bored! I don't understand the concept. The bad news, I am very impatient when I feel my time is wasted on the mundane. My mind races with ideas and projects that nag at me for attention.
So....I created this blog, and others (see: historical genealogy, trumpet career), to express my many passions and pursuits. This one will have no particular theme other than "my current thoughts".
My current book readings (I'm usually reading at least 2 or 3 at a time) are:
A Great Improvisation by Stacy Schiff (about Benjamin Franklin)
Death of an Empire by Robert Booth (the fall of Salem in the early 19th c.)
Words that Changed History: The Liberator by Stephen Currie (about abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and his Boston publication: The Liberator
