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I’m working on the September Journal Quilt – the push is on to do the final assembly of these pieces for display and that means I don’t have the luxury of time for making the September quilt itself.

Last night I treated myself to a trip to Borders. I got a few new CDs including a different performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. I was listening to it in the car tonight on the way home (last two movements) and I was blown away by the progressions and the key changes and more than any of that – how it moved my whole body and mind. This is the NPR Milestones recording and the liner notes wonder about how it must have been to be sitting in the audience for the first performance. To hear something so powerful, so new must have been incredible for all involved.

I also got Van Cliburn playing Debussy – another group of wonderful pieces of music (and wonderfully played). The last CD is Eva Cassidy – what a voice to match a wonderful sense of what the songs are all about.

Oh my. I needed this music, if only to make me cry a little.