Sunday 02/22/2026
Read, messed around with music in the morning. I am discouraged about music. I enjoy playing and singing for my own amusement but somehow there are expectations that I will perform for others, and I just don’t have the discipline to do that. Real musicians enjoy practicing. For me, it’s a chore.
After lunch Joanne and I walked to the Stanford Campus, to the Cantor museum. Another resident had praised an exhibit there of art related to the witchcraft hysteria of the 1500 and 1600s. It was mostly etchings and old books, some hand-made scrolls and things. What an awful time. We had a drink on the patio and walked back.
I ate dinner in my room. Then at 6:30 we met again and drove to the Century Cinemas to see a movie, Midwinter Break. Link is to the RottenTomatoes page. Reviewers there don’t like it much. I suggested it because of a review in the Chronicle. It’s about a 70-year-old couple whose marriage is kind of dead. Both actors were excellent, they created believable characters. Joanne, who at one time trained as a counselor. said the whole problem was they weren’t talking to each other about what mattered. At the end they might have made a little breakthrough, but I don’t see much future for that pair. But it was worth watching.
Codgerville 